Archive for March, 2010
Well, a bad way to start. But in my defense, it is spring, and I am not doing nothing. Tonight, fire!
That’s laziness, rapping at the windowpane. “Let me in,” he says, his voice muffled by the glass between the outside and the living room, and then by the distance between the window and my dining room table where I sit and write. I almost let him in just now, thinking to get up and look [...]
Tonight is an admission of defeat and a renewed sense of mission. I missed writing last night because I was at work all day, and then I went to the next county to spend time with my nerd!friends, which kept me out until late into the night. We played a marvelous game of Catan, and [...]
I have a great deal of difficulty with execution; very often I stall, delay, or undo what I am trying to accomplish simply by thinking for too long about how best to go about it. I get caught up in letting the perfect be the enemy of the good. The amphetamines I take [...]
Today is another New Year, this time for many Iranians, called Nowruz. It’s a new one for me–I enjoy the absurdity of marking each new year as it arises, so it’s nice to have another one under my belt. Gregorian new year, Chinese new year (zhēng yuè), Nowruz, summer solstice, Rosh Hashanah, Ras [...]
Well, this is home. Cardboard boxes sit unpacked, still smelling of the truck and the city and the movers’ sweat. The walls are still white, untouched by brush or scuffed by furniture. The carpet even smells new!
I thought I would have something interesting to say for my first entry ever in my [...]