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I still live
So. At the end of 2020, a wily kookaburra flew into my podcast feed and spun a fantastical tale about an augmented reality game, kind of a poor rip-off of The Jejune Institute, where a bunch of people conspire to pretend to get a target's attention about... AI? Aliens? Something? While actually keeping him in the dark the whole time, and they have ( Read more... ) -
chronic insomnia
I hate waking up every morning feeling completely exhausted. I'm always more tired than I was when I went to bed the night before. I can't remember the last time I got a decent night's sleep. It's been years.
That's really the thing I want most in my life at this point, the ability to sleep through the night. -
I can't believe this is happening again
Well, I guess I'm glad I did my taxes a month ago, so I could get my refund before the government shuts down. I remember the last time the Republicans pulled this bullshit, I was worrying that I wouldn't be able to go to college that year because I didn't know if I could get any financial aid or not ( Read more... ) -
yaaaaay
I had my first performance review at work yesterday, which was excellent overall. And I'm getting a raise as of next month. :D -
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Watching Portlandia, it seems to me that Portland is the Canada of Seattle. (I wonder what the Canada of Portland is...) -
25 years ago
I was seven years old and in the second grade. I remember being very excited that morning because I knew we were going to get to watch a shuttle launch in school that day. I always loved watching the shuttle take off as a kid. They wheeled in a TV on one of those A/V carts for the entire class to watch it on. We waited anxiously as they counted ( Read more... ) -
but will she get in to Harvard?
At Yael Farms, Anna gets plenty of exercise. She spends the day herding ibex, drawing water from a well, and moving heavy stones. After a Deuteronomy-friendly dinner of figs, unleavened bread and honey-drizzled ibex, she practices her Mandarin. Like many of the ibex farms sprouting up across the northeastern United States, Yael offers an intensive ( Read more... ) -
jury duty
DEAR JUROR:
You have been randomly selected for jury duty, Congratulations.
See, "congratulations" isn't exactly the first word that came to my mind when I got this in the mail ( Read more... ) -
happy winter solstice!
In the vale of Enna there is a lake embowered in woods, which screen it from the fervid rays of the sun, while the moist ground is covered with flowers, and Spring reigns perpetual. Here Proserpine was playing with her companions, gathering lilies and violets, and filling her basket and her apron with them, when Pluto saw her, loved her, and ( Read more... )
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