Tag: real life

Remedial Life

I’ve had a strange feeling for the past few years. It’s a weird feeling of deep unease and unhappiness. It’s not depression – I know depression. It’s more like the feeling a detective in a film noir gets as they head into a (spoiler) trap. It feels like I’ve had life hit me over the…

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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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Life Buddies

We have gym buddies, we have drinking buddies, and we have shopping buddies. I want a life buddy. Someone to remind me to work toward my goals and to motivate me daily. I think, ideally, best friends or life partners are supposed to be these people.. but my best friends and life partners are all…

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I’m a doctor!!!

Dear freaders, When I started this blog, I was a lowly 19-year-old college student from New Mexico. In that time, I’ve lived in Australia, Seattle, and North Carolina, I’ve had a half-dozen jobs, and I’ve gone through graduate school. As of today, I’m done. I’ve finished my dissertation and defended it. I’m officially a 29-year-old…

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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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Life Block

I am really good at starting projects. Insanely good. I will have lots of awesome ideas and go super far with them in the first week. I tell people, “you could make a fortune by following me around and finishing the last 10 percent of any thing I do.” I don’t know why it is.…

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