Pg 238: "She was remembering the old desolation that love was impossible, that however deeply they buried their conflict it would never go away. The problem with a life freely chosen every day, a New Testament life, was that it could end at any moment ( Read more... )

Current strategy is to avoid over-dependence on any single person or group entity for my various social requirements. Tenets of this strategy include ( Read more... )

1) I am getting carded less frequently when buying alcohol

2) There are new batches of rotational people and interns, and some of them are quite good looking, and then I feel creepy for thinking so due to the realization that I am much older than they are

Oh God, it's September.

To go with a photo of coffee: I like my coffee how I like photos about my life: filtered.

8/8, what an auspicious day. I seem to be making progress on many things, semi-unintentionally. I have accidentally picked up a number of goals this year, including:

• Getting better at riding a bike! Now I need to be less lazy and try to keep up a 1x/week bike to work average (and maybe move up to more!).
• Learning German. I'm on Lesson 11 of German 3 ( Read more... )

• Billboard ad about healthier eating giving advice to "sneak" veggies into a quesadilla. Why do we have to "sneak" veggies? Why is there such a cultural stigma against them when we can be taught that they are delicious? Not even taught (because if you're repeatedly told that something is "good", then you might distrust it), but just make eating ( Read more... )

 “It’s not about being happy, that’s the thing. I’m just trying to get through each day. I can’t keep asking myself ‘Am I happy? Am I happy?’ It just makes me more miserable.”

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"After The BoJack Horseman Show fell apart, I got depressed a long time. Sure, I wrote a bunch of hit movies, I made a ton of money, but it wasn't fulfilling. I ( Read more... )

right now, at this present moment in my life, this is so fucking beautiful: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/31/fashion/modern-love-words-with-friends.html

thoughts to elaborate on later:
-Biking on Sunday, specifically that singularly focused state of mind that develops when biking up a hill
-Biking this morning, specifically on being more aware

Two completely different puns in two simultaneous conversations. Pun game is strong today ( Read more... )