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it's a friendly phone call, dmitri!
I need to start writing again. Life is complicated with a lot of layers, and somehow I miss the cathartic exercise of streamlining my thoughts through a post. I miss the days I when I used to actually start writing the entry in my head as something came to me. A small anecdote would be half a post before I knew it. Sometimes I'd even write it down ( Read more... ) -
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It's not every morning that you take an adorable, Norwegian traveler you found in North Beach to the Marina IHOP. -
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Like most of the others, I was a seeker, a mover, a malcontent, and at times a stupid hell-raiser. I was never idle long enough to do much thinking, but I felt somehow that my instincts were right. I shared a vagrant optimism that some of us were making real progress, that we had taken an honest road, and that the best of us would inevitably make ( Read more... ) -
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I apologize for not having updated in so long. When things are stressful, I tend to talk less, not more ( Read more... ) -
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This is pretty cool: Planned Parenthood went and got themselves a new heavyweight presidentA couple of nights ago, I went to a really interesting panel discussion about What Americans Vote For. It was one of the most honest and refreshing conversations about politics, and the problems within the democratic party (which really are a lot of the ( Read more... ) -
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I was just in the Canvass Cafe, which is around the corner from where I am staying. It is a gallery-cafe and at night it turns into a gallery-night club. There was a guy about my age sitting next to me grading high school english essays. Did you ever imagine as a high schooler that your english teacher would be sitting in a gallery-night club, ( Read more... ) -
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i got the job!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
and they even bothered to tell me why i got the job, which is nice. i know the person i beat out (one of the ones who flew out here for an interview) was older than me with more experience. so that's an ego boost.
i start october 30th and if you are at all interested in what i will be doing, you can go here. This is ( Read more... ) -
head=spinning.
im trying very hard not to pay any attention to this and am instead drinking a beer and watching the ethan hawk version of great expectations on tivo. yep. yep i am.
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dad: stop freaking out. lots of people have a few weeks off in between jobs. go walk the dog or clean something.
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Rob, cleaning the cabinet in the living roomme: that's so much glass...one whole shelf of martini glasses, one whole shelf of goblets, one of china, etc ( Read more... ) -
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Rich countries spend $84 billion a year subsidizing their farmers. That's nearly as much as they spend on foreign aid, which is about $29 a year for each of the world's 2.7 billion people who live on less than $2 per day. Poor people often get less assistance than the rich world's farm animals. The European Union, for example, doles out almost $30 ( Read more... )