Welts, 2005
Hey, I kind of love this photo! I was going back into THE ARCHIVES today looking for particular photos, but whenever I do this I always end up getting sidetracked looking at photos of things I have completely forgotten about, sometimes for the better, and having one of those ungrounded trips down memory [...]
I was just thinking about “active listening” and generated a little revelatory hypothesis.
First let me define “active listening” as I know it. This is the listening technique I am supposed to use as a Medical Assistant, when I am taking a patient history. This is listening where you are entirely focused on the [...]
I just finished reading/skimming a book about growing up as a Jehovah’s Witness. It’s written by a young woman who is around my age. I read the beginning, which was kind of slapstick (”haha, Jehovah’s Witnesses believe that?”), but then the book started to get serious and I had to read faster and [...]
I was sifting through my photos tonight and found two version of the same house, the same view, taken almost exactly seven months apart. I really like that wall and its chimney.
Yellow house, May 2008
Yellow house, December 2008
And:
They remind me of this photo I also have a special feeling for. I took it [...]
My but I am in a foul mood this afternoon. It’s a balmy 61 degrees, I just spent hours working in the yard, hanging out with my cats, and I am quitting cigarettes and realizing all the things they were doing for me, such as allowing me to enjoy being out in the sun [...]
I am back from North Palm Beach, my second quarter of Medical Assisting classes have started, and I’m trying to hit the ground running. (OH AND MIGHT I MENTION I GOT STRAIGHT 4.0s LAST QUARTER.)
Once again I have lots of things to say, but little time to actually write about them. So I [...]
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I don’t think I’ve talked about my career change at all here, so I’ll start now.
I was laid off from Howard Hughes in December, since the immunology lab I was supporting uprooted itself and moved to the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and I did not want to move to NYC to follow. This ended [...]
Smoking!
O cigarettes! How I hate you for your mind-blowing addictiveness!
I am quitting now, for real this time, as a present to myself for my 30th year. I recently read David Sedaris’ “When You Are Engulfed In Flames,” where Sedaris talks about his decision to quit. He mentions hearing a non-native English speaker [...]
Whenever I try to come up with an analogy, it usually involves poop. I don’t really know why, but I think poop might be my spirit animal. Also, I was raised by my father, who swears like a sailor, so blame him. (And my spirit animal.)
The above was supposed to somehow segue [...]
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
In December 2007, Graykit, Jen’s kitty and Gus’ sister, disappeared. We panicked. We posted signs, searched shelters, posted ads on Craigslist, called veterinarians. We tried to divine from Gus’ behavior if he knew anything about her disappearance. We never found her. No body by the roadside. No tales from [...]