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56. invidiousness part ii
Because this sums up my mood today so perfectly, I shall let Fiona do the talking: Those boon times went bust My feet of clay, they dried to dust The red isn’t the red we painted It’s just rust And the...
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57. invidiousness part i
… and why I hate Valentine’s Day so much. Truth be told, it’s because I’ve never been able to take part in it. Or rather, had a positive experience that would refute the notion that it’s anything more...
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76. necessities
Apologies about the lack of posting the last few days. The last article took a lot out of me, work has been crazy busy, and to top it all off I was home sick today and feeling like death. The sad thing...
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91. yen
Brief update this evening. Spent most of the day in bed with a fever. Started feeling not-so-great yesterday afternoon and by the time I got home all I really wanted to do was crawl into bed and sleep....
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106. review
What’s a year, really? 12 months? 52 weeks? 525,600 minutes (or, when I asked Google, 525,948.766 minutes)? Does the earth wake up as it’s hurtling around the sun at a dizzying 67,000 miles per hour...
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117. excogitate
excogitate, verb: 1) To think out; devise; invent; 2) To study intently and carefully in order to grasp or comprehend fully. Now is not the time for verbal swordplay, for unlikely flights of...
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124. weltschmerz
This is not a word of the day, and frankly, I don’t care very much if it is or is not. I’m frankly tired of the self-imposed rules and standards I weigh myself down under. Here’s my Word Of The Day,...
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192. solstice
My breakfast this morning was two tumblers of whisky (neat), about three fingers each. This after getting up to feed and water the dogs I’m looking after for the month. No sense in them going hungry. I...
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194. sozzled
I have tried to start this one several times, the first attempt taking place around 11:50 PM on Tuesday. The reason it’s proving so difficult is that there’s a lot to say about 2013, and also not very...
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195. Six de Bâtons
The first few of weeks of 2014 have been hit and miss. Aside from a handful of social outings, I’ve been hermited away for the most part. There’ve been several close calls with jobs and a couple of...
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198. Le Jugement
This was a card that came up yesterday, reversed, in the ninth position on the Celtic cross spread. It reminds me just how steeped the Rider-Waite-Smith deck is in Judeo-Christian mythology. The...
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200. Tempérance
"I am many things. An artist. A composer. A writer. A some-time cook. A fan of public radio. Irish-American. A Christian. I’m also gay." Two years after writing that, two of those ended up not being...
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203. pluvial
Normally, I sit around on Valentine's Day and feel sorry for single, lonely myself. This year, I decided to watch documentaries about the long-dead ancestors, which I think was a much better choice.
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204. static
Life seems to be throwing me a lot of lemons, but I don't seem to have the requisite sugar to make lemonade. I appreciate challenges, but not when those challenges merely seem to be about throwing me...
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210. lontano
More of my misadventures. Got friendzoned after a date, then lost at the Transit Station whist trying to get home. Not a banner day for the Baileys.
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233. happenstance
Quick disclaimer: this post will deal with my sex life in unsexy and entirely untitillating language. Because my relationship with sex these days is… well, complicated. I haven’t had many relationships...
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238. caustic
The examined life may be admirable, but it can also be pretty unlivable, too.
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238. caustic
The examined life may be admirable, but it can also be pretty unlivable, too.
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249. obstreperous
Sorry about the gap in posting. Grad school started up again in September, and on top of working full-time, doing music for Sunday Assembly, and serving as secretary for the campus archivists group,...
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238. caustic
The examined life may be admirable, but it can also be pretty unlivable, too.
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