Twenty Six
I nearly forgot about my birthday post this year. It’s kind of sad that this blog has become such an afterthought, but I figured I’d regret skipping what’s been a 10+ year tradition, so here goes: I’ve been preparing myself…
Ironic Happiness
It’s hit me a few times in the last couple of weeks: For the first time since I can remember – possibly ever – I’m actually, truly, fully, HAPPY. I mean the kind of happy where you fall asleep with…
Variables
I’m generally the type of person that does best lots and lots of under pressure. I usually set up the circumstances for myself: waiting until the very last minute to start writing a paper, having a whole ton of commitments…
Reflection and Direction
I found myself reading through old posts on forever-digital this evening. With 2012 just about 24 hours away I’ve been feeling kind of… adrift. I thought I’d go back and read some of what I’ve written in the past to…
Minimizing
Catbird, a long-time user, posted a Challenge on Accompl.sh a few days ago that’s had me thinking ever since – Shed 100 possessions in 6 months. I tend to do something drastic in my life around new years – typically…
Music
One of my favorite things about being a bit of an internet junkie is that I often forget that I’m feeding data into a particular service until one day it comes back to surprise me. This happened today when a…
Leap of Faith
I did something kind of crazy. I left my job. My awesome, amazing, fantastic, ridiculously cool job where I got to work on interesting things with even more interesting people. WHAT?! WHY!? Yeah. That’s been the common reaction. And honestly,…
Twenty Five.
Holy hell. Twenty five. This is my 10th annual birthday post. TEN. That seems to be the big realization of my life lately: things aren’t being counted so much in years as in decades. My best friend and I have…
Internet Reset
Over 4th of July weekend, my friend Jimelle and I took off on a bit of an adventure. Or maybe it was more of anti-adventure. We hopped in her car and drove 10 hours up to the tippy top of…
Two years ago today
a reminder I need to throw caution to the wind more often and just try new things.