Month: March 2008

29.  I was single from January 1, 2002 until November 12, 2005.  That’s 46.35 months.  After that, I realized that I don’t know if I can trust anyone who doesn’t know what it’s like to be alone.  I think being able to stand yourself for any amount of time is key to being mature, and…

28. I’m so bad at e-mail, it’s ridiculous. Today I e-mailed my friend Steve in response to an e-mail he sent exactly ONE YEAR AGO. I swear I’ll get better at it someday, but I’m too much of a perfectionist to send any trite prose, so sometimes I send nothing at all. I should get…

27. I have scars on each wrist that look like I tried to kill myself with an ice pick. The true story, sadly, is far more lame. (Apparently this happens to me quite often. Check out these posts: 1, 2, 3. Then see this one for something a bit different.) Wrong number text message: From:…

26. I once tried to go a whole day in which everything I said was a lie. It was surprisingly difficult. Apparently there’s some things we say in day to day life that aren’t easily categorized as true or false. Curious. Hm. I have a life update, but it’s one of those happy updates and…

25. I think about going back to Australia every day. Every Day. And if I have to borrow the $2k to do it, I’ll do it. And this year. Hm. My circle of friends is so dynamic, it scares me. People I haven’t thought about in ages turn out to be really close and important…

24. I’ve been doing a lot of research into incest recently, because it’s strange to me how ingrained our aversion to incest is, and how we always attempt to justify it by saying it’s just ‘icky’ or wrong. I’m also interested in the ‘moral’ and evolutionary psychology behind cannibalism, contamination, and religion. See Haidt, et…