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Some Untidy Spot: January 2012
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A Rock, Not an Island. Monday, January 23, 2012. I read far, far fewer books this year than last year. First of all, my commute changed (to become much shorter; hooray! But second of all, my New Year's resolution for the year meant far less reading time than usual. (More on that later.). So it's hard to write a "best books" post when I have only 88 books to choose from. I should change the rules to include New Yorker. The Bonfire of the Vanities. The Name of the Rose. The Warmth of Other Suns. This is wh...
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Some Untidy Spot: April 2012
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A Rock, Not an Island. Friday, April 06, 2012. No Fear of Flying. Dallas has a lot of swimming pools. I mean, it makes sense, but still- as you fly over almost every single house has a bright blue dot in the backyard. This is what I've observed as I've flown through the Dallas-Forth Worth airport three times in the last three months. Also, the airport is enormous. The trip to Ethiopia was really good aside from the canceled flight at the end. More on that later, I hope.). We're in the air! Fame (but not ...
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A Dude and His Blog: 2008 (Oh Great)
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A Dude and His Blog. A look inside the mind of a simplistic, but odd young man. Tuesday, January 1, 2008. Mood: Wyclef Jean (Carnival Vol. 2). Dad: 2008 will be great. Dad:That'll be benign, but 2010 will be great again! A conversation my mom told me about this morning. The year I got my license. The year I got into my first accidents. Became an upper classman. Had one friend move away. Stayed by myseslf away from home (those days in Miami and La Paz). Started a mutual fund. Took the ACT (got a 28).
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A Dude and His Blog: Hmmm (What Should Be Spoken About)
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A Dude and His Blog. A look inside the mind of a simplistic, but odd young man. Thursday, January 3, 2008. Hmmm (What Should Be Spoken About). Mood: Wyclef Jean (I know, I've been listening to it for like a week straight, but I love it so much, Dollar Bill is the cap level of poeticness for being about a prostitute). Quote: "2008 is the year to communicate."-My Dad still on a quest to find everything that could possibly rhyme with eight. Countdown: 19 days until my birthday. Nah, girls don't like me....
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Some Untidy Spot: The Year of Skills: Part 3
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A Rock, Not an Island. Sunday, May 20, 2012. The Year of Skills: Part 3. July was positively lame compared to June. I know, I know, I'm sorry, but I can't keep up that level of glamor forever. Another thing I can't keep forever- check out that smooth transition- is my bicycle. While we were in Ethiopia over Christmas, our next-door neighbor who never locks the doors (we live in Oakland: who doesn't lock the doors? Some time later (occasionally some long. Time later) it's fixed. It's like magic! Mike's pa...
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Some Untidy Spot: September 2012
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A Rock, Not an Island. Tuesday, September 04, 2012. I tried to keep a day-by-day account of our Ethiopia trip way back in January, in the hopes that I could turn it into an awesome blog post. Because, of course, I excel at writing trip reports. Like the great posts about the Vietnam trip where I got arrested, or our trip to Turkey in 2010, or our trip to Indonesia in 2011. Oh wait- I didn't blog about any. Ethiopia, December/January 2012. Day 2: Still in transit. Does air travel always take this long?
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Some Untidy Spot: January 2014
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A Rock, Not an Island. Wednesday, January 01, 2014. I guess I only use this blog for best books lists now. Part of me misses blogging- it was probably good for me to write something other than Facebook posts or work emails- but then the rest of me remembers that I don't actually like writing very much. This was a good year in reading, at least by count, even though I continued my New Yorker. Give me a break! So the fact that they were heavily represented in my fiction doesn't speak well for the category.
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Some Untidy Spot: December 2011
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A Rock, Not an Island. Thursday, December 15, 2011. I get all my life advice from pop songs. Watching SNL over the weekend, I was exposed for the first time to Robyn and this. It's a "soaringly tuneful electro-pop ballad" with Robyn "tell[ing] her boyfriend exactly how to break it off with the other woman to inflict the least emotional damage.". Wash The Dishes (."it's time you took your turn"). Stop Speeding (".it's time to obey the law"). Stand Up Straight (".it's time to see a chiropractor").
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A Dude and His Blog: Vote For Me! Votame!
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A Dude and His Blog. A look inside the mind of a simplistic, but odd young man. Tuesday, April 22, 2008. Mood: Elliot Smith is playing in my head, but I can't listen to music because my mom is sleeping on the couch. Quote: "We are not hypocrites in our sleep" -William Hazlitt. All good things start with "D". I think that that's not such a good thing. But whatever floats your boat. Or in your toilet bowl. Wait I didn't just say that. April 22, 2008 at 6:43 PM. This comment has been removed by the author.
