It feels like life has been some sadistic psych experiment since I graduated high school, designed to grind me down into nothing by the end. All the highs and lows are just grist, and all the beautiful places just spinning around the wheel-well.

I'm still here.

Had an interesting weekend exploring Verona. My car got trapped in the garage there, which forced me to wander around for an afternoon longer than I wanted to - it was beautiful, to be sure, to be "trapped" in one of the most Romantic cities on Earth, but also very frustrating not to be able to go where I wanted. I finished writing a longish letter ( Read more... )

In lieu of buying new movies or books, I've been finishing the books that I've started and revisiting the TV series that I have already bought. Lately, I've begun rewatching Mad Men, and watching it a few years later from buying it (it really has been a few years, too, which is astounding in its right) I feel like I pick up more and more on the ( Read more... )

So driving home from work today, after working out, stopping for Chinese food, etc, I was going around a curve and had zoned out for a minute and realized I was over the line. Like an idiot I overcorrected and the car started going sideways, and instead of pumping the brakes (my car has no ABS) I floored the brake and tried downshifting, and ended ( Read more... )

Yet somehow had an amazingly great day. Details to follow when I wake up and freak out and am not completely happy with my life as I am now.

Today the briefing went very well. Got a question about one of the topics, which always makes me feel like I'm delivering useful product. The heartburn was really bad again, so I broke down and bought some Zantac 75... read the possible side effects, but so far nothing but relief. With that largely out of the way, tomorrow the big focus will be on ( Read more... )

Work today was good - I accomplished almost everything that I had set out to this morning. Having a frank discussion with one of my coworkers really gave me a good, grounded perspective on things that I've been "fretting" over with regards to work. It's not necessary for every single thing that you do in any given job to really "make a difference" ( Read more... )

This weekend I went with some friends of a friend and said friend and stayed in a gigantic Tuscan villa outside of Arezzo. A weekend of wine, bike rides, amazing homemade food, great weather, chilling by and in the pool, lighting fires, and listening to music. No TV, no laptop, my phone had internet but I was not on it very much. Tomorrow is going ( Read more... )

Dunno if any of the people I used to read besides Mab are still around, but I wanted to post something to the internet besides using Facebook - Facebook is exhausting, it's like being at a social event all the time when you just want to be yourself online. But that's what I wanted to write about anyway. I don't even recognize what "myself" is ( Read more... )