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My Best and Worst Case Scenarios, pt. III

(Continued from here) A lot has happened, both in the past year and over the past decade, but I haven’t really had the chance to process it until recently. I’ve been thinking about this idea I had a while ago and decided to do a follow-up. Where I am: I’m currently a tenure-track assistant professor…

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Recurrent conversation topics

If given free reign with a person of similar interests/background/sense of humor/etc., what conversation topics would be most likely to come up? That question randomly popped into my head because Emily, a graduate student in philosophy, remarked how she always found herself having to inform people that their ideas for a perpetual motion machine wouldn’t…

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Apocalypse Report Card

Hunting 1 Farming 3 First Aid 4 Gathering 6 Hacking 3 Sewing 8 (don’t judge me!) Fishing 5 Psychological Flexibility (read: won’t freak out) 8 Masonry 2 Welding 1 Hand-to-Hand Defense 9 Weaponry 8 Mechanics 4 Diplomacy 9 Fire Starting 3 Related posts: About The Blog A Pixelated Mind is a bit of everything you…

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Help choose my new middle name!

I have never had a middle name. And now that I’m 29, I think it’s about time to fix that. So I am going to legally change my name. Here are the best options thus far: Linneaus/Linneo ((With my first name, it makes it seem like I’m Carolus Linneaus)) Buckminster Maxwell/Maximiliano Ampersand/Interrobang Poe Pax Indigo…

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29 things I DID do before turning 29

Let’s be happy! Let’s do the opposite of last post! Imagine if I’d had the most foresight? What would my goals have been? These are them! Go to graduate school. Finish my dissertation. Travel to several countries. Be in a successful relationship. Buy my own car. Not hang myself with a belt. Be happy with…

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My Once Best and Worst Case Scenarios

It all started with something my propaganda professor Frank Thayer said a long time ago: Life doesn’t turn out the best-possible way you could imagine.  It also doesn’t turn out the worst way.  It’s usually something in between. That scared me at the time.  Still does, actually. So I decided to be concrete about it. …

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