I’ve been motivating myself to write longer essays than I was writing two years ago, or one year ago. Back then I would be satisfied with ten pages, or sometimes even four or five. That’s not enough anymore. It might be due to the book manuscript I wrote, the longest chapter of [...]
Archive for July, 2008
Paper
Posted in Prosperity, tagged arrogance, Cleveland, essays, NPR, paper, pretend, writing on July 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Queen, Black Sabbath, and Jameson
Posted in Prosperity, tagged black sabbath, free booze, Jameson, jukebox, liver failure, queen, whiskey on July 27, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Last night my special someone, SW, and some of her friends and I, visited a local bar called Click’s. That might not be how you spell its name, but no matter how you spell the name, they have a jukebox. It’s not an old-fashioned jukebox, but instead it’s one of the digital contraptions. [...]
Word.
Posted in Technology, tagged families, switched at birth on July 26, 2008 | 3 Comments »
As far as I’m concerned, Microsoft is a sadistic company. I’ve just realized I’ve been sending .docx files to everyone I send documents to, and those can only be used if you have Word 2007. It has probably harmed my professional development, as I need to submit things online using electronic documents, and I imagine [...]
Oh no, another book.
Posted in Plans, tagged Ocracoke Island, publishing on July 24, 2008 | 6 Comments »
For the last year or so I’ve been writing about Ocracoke Island.
Ocracoke is a barrier island off the coast of North Carolina. They don’t serve liquor at bars there, only beer and wine. I spent the summer of 2003 on the island, walking on the beach, working at a candy shop with four [...]
Kitchen Catastrophe
Posted in Prosperity, tagged bad food, happiness, the will to live, tofu on July 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I prepared and ate most of the pictured atrocity last night. It’s tofu, bok choy, alfalfa sprouts, green onions and mushrooms – which are all wonderful things, in my opinion – but with a kind of black bean mess that I prepared in a saucepan. It started with minced garlic sauteed in olive oil, and [...]
Tell That to the Cysts
Posted in Prosperity, tagged cyst, fatigue, insurance, suicide, weight, wisdom teeth on July 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »
[Something I do often is upload photos to this blog. Today it's not working, because sometimes things malfunction; the Internet fails us just as readily as our bodies often do. But I'm not going to change what I've written, to compensate for this absence of imagery.]
I can’t believe how small my arm looks [...]
Hulk is a Racket
Posted in Prosperity, tagged The Incredible Hulk, The Military-Industrial Complex on July 16, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I went to a movie by myself tonight – something I haven’t done in ages. The movie was The Incredible Hulk, and I loved it. It has exactly the pattern I think a Hulk movie probably ought to have:
1. The Hulk destroys a bunch of military equipment, while military personnel shoot at him [...]
A Post from Nobody
Posted in Terrorists are Losing, tagged academia, discouragement, naysayers, writing on July 15, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Last night a drunk person learned that I have a book manuscript more or less finished, and she took it upon herself to remind me that I’m “nobody” and have no “angle” by which to sell the book to a publisher.
I didn’t need that reminder.
Writing is an uphill battle. It’s hard to get anywhere, [...]
Broke at breakfast
Posted in Prosperity, tagged ANWR, being broke, gas prices, money, university on July 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Money is so stupid. I’ve been charged nearly $700 by the university this summer, even though I have a tuition waiver. According to taxes, I somehow owe the state of Missouri $60 that I’m convinced I am not really supposed to owe them. The price of gasoline will all but ensure that I never travel [...]
