“What are you reading?”

…there is a fear on my part that translations miss some aspect, that I am missing out on something which I can only approximate an understanding of, but as in a commercial roll versus my aunt’s sweet rolls, you can only know it’s missing if you’ve had one before. It is a pain I cannot quite describe, almost heart-breaking to know that there is something which I am denied knowing because I do not have the means to get at it.

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OBE is not an option

There are two events of note this weekend, one a staple of life that signals the opening of summer and a parade of other people’s memories, and the other a one time event which is noteworthy because it will be my memory. The first is Rolling Thunder, which runs through the weekend, where motorcycle riding [...]

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Confidence 2APR2009

It’s hard to explain my comfort with France and French. It’s not “home” like Sweden or DC, and I’m always a foreigner, but it is a warm feeling, like curling up in front of the fire with an expensive dark chocolate that tastes indulgent and rich. It’s being a foreigner that I find so comforting [...]

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Non (sense/sequitur)

Apply the white cream out of the blue jar as soon as he leaves, and advise him of the same. It’s a good time had by both, though I think we both believe each of us had the better time, if only because that is how we are. I should have stopped paying attention to [...]

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Analysis of: Decision

Information:  Seeing people make the same decisions over and over again which almost always end poorly. The fear:  Making the same mistakes. The current treatment: Making no decision. The proper response: Treating experience as counsel, not ruler.

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Temp

I dismantled my desk earlier today. I hadn’t really used it or the reason it still existed, so it was time to get rid of it. It was never much more than functional, and it was good at being functional. The PC is stripped down, keeping the nice graphics card, the DVD-R, and the brand [...]

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Where’s my outrage?

I never had any pretensions regarding marriage. I long ago decided it wasn’t for me, and  long have I been reconciled with it. So I don’t suffer the righteous indignation sweeping the nation, or at least my blood pressure does not rise, I did not quail in anger as results came in on November 4th, [...]

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Inadequate words

“We *heart* our customers” it always says on the dry cleaner hanger, even if a financial transaction has a grand social aspect, it’s not quite true and not quite right. Just so the phrases of thanks ring out to returning troops, a mix of a loss for words, and even those words, so well used, [...]

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90% of RDA

I almost double majored, or at least minored in Economics. I had the credits from my favorite, and best class in high school and I had the aptitude, but I became disenchanted. No, perhaps not disenchanted, but rather doubtful of the underlying support for the superstructure of the theory. You see, virtually all economics theory [...]

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