Jun 2004
- Jun 7
- rootless
Strange this. I came back to Southern California this past December utterly sick of the Midwest, exhausted and hurting with loneliness, feeling defeated by the darkness and the bitter cold.
· Read more… - Jun 7
- momentary lapse
It doesn't ever end, does it?
· Read more… - Jun 8
- panic
I am beginning to think that aspartame makes me depressed. Either that or caffeine. Time for a science experiment, I suppose.
· Read more… - Jun 9
- LAX to ORD
So I wait at this airport for the last time for a long time, listening to the Muzak being pumped over head. (Goddamn, that shit is loud.) I swear, with all this back and forth, there ain't no way that my soul is gonna catch up to me.
· Read more… - Jun 13
- Null Poem
· Read more…neither increasing nor decreasing in this stillness lines drawn arbitrarily values assigned out of my control - Jun 14
- neurotic little lists
I never used to do this, but I guess my latent type A personality is coming out in bits and pieces. I write these things out like some kind of incantation to ward off bad luck and evil spirits. You would think it would make me more productive, but I promptly lose them, forcing me to rewrite them over and over again.
· Read more… - Jun 15
- continued transience
So this is what my life is reduced to.
· Read more… - Jun 15
- earthquake
I didn't feel a thing, but the DJs on one of the radio stations commented on it. I wonder if surfers noticed if the waves changed?
· Read more… - Jun 17
- the end of the microsoft desktop era
With the insane delay of Longhorn and the current reality of the web-dominated Internet, many bloggers are trumpeting the end of an age.
· Read more… - Jun 21
- dump IE
Another op-ed about how Internet Explorer is completely insecure, and if you hate spyware, it's time to switch to Mozilla Firefox.
· Read more… - Jun 23
- retrograde consolidation 3
Retrograde consolidation is a clumsy term, but I'm too lazy to think of something better.
· Read more… - Jun 23
- magic eye trick
Ah, the wonders of plaintext. Just focus on the R's at the bottom and cross your eyes so that they fuse into one, like with a normal magic eye puzzle.
· Read more… - Jun 25
- more than this
Is it really that unhealthy to love only what you do? Is it wrong to identify solely with your job, and to not have anything fulfilling outside of it?
· Read more… - Jun 27
- anti-social
What is it about summer that makes me want to avoid human contact?
· Read more… - Jun 28
- i'm not insane!
So I was walking through the IKEA today, and Five for Fighting's "100 Years" was playing, which, for no particular reason, really, put me in an extraordinarily contemplative mood, and I began thinking about my five years out in the Midwest.
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