Tonight we had our end-of-the-year Esports dinner and we said goodbye to our first set of seniors. We also inducted our first hall of famer. It was a nice moment. It’s been a whirlwind with[…]
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Day 107: on Death
This is turning out to be a stretch of post-1oo posts that could be referred to as “the bummer” period. That’s how life goes. I found out yesterday, by Googling, that my mom’s “mother”– the[…]
Day 105: All the people I used to know
There’s a Ben Folds lyric that goes: Well I’ve seen some old friends sort of die/or just turn into whatever must have been inside them/whatever all of us had then in common/we grew up/left home/we[…]
Day 103: The Names were Redacted to Protect the Innocent
So I knew this day was coming. As I’ve said a few times, I have this recurrent blog-fear based on a time when I got blog silenced (not to silence me). It’s a weird hangup.[…]
Day 97: Toxicity and Those Who Ply in It
In the car today, on a little trip to gather up needed supplies, Julie and I talked a bit about our academic experiences. When we discuss such things, I often land on a familiar point[…]
Day 81: On being a "jerk" about race, class and gender
I just wrote an uncomfortable email. Well… uncomfortable for me. The topic of discussion in this email was a scholar of color, an academic. I had to give some real– and unsolicited– advice to a[…]
Day 79: Lies my "Parents" Told Me II: It gets better
Now I know the phrase “it gets better” is used by certain movements as a sort of rallying cry, so if you’re from one of those communities, I apologize for the use of the phrase,[…]
Day 65: Wrestlemania Week III: Chris Jericho
Y2J is one of the first figures on this list that I watched from the virtual beginning of his career as a “smart” wrestling fan. I never even remotely thought any of Jericho’s career was[…]
Day 54: All the Small Things
it has been a long, eventful week. There are things I’d love to write about here, but they aren’t my stories, so at the end of a long week, I simply want to talk about[…]
Day 37: Circles and Arrivals or 100 Ways to look at 1 thing
If you didn’t see Arrival, or you were lost, read this helpful Wikipedia entry on linguistic determinism. It’ll help with what I’m about to do here. So in Arrival, learning the heptapod language allows our[…]
