So, in my ongoing series of “considering things that are totally not unique to me and everyone has probably already thought about”, today I am thinking about using technology (specifically email/text/some other not-face-to-face tech thing that involves a time delay) as a theoretically protective buffer. You know, you feel sheepish about something, so instead of [...]
Archive for August, 2008
Technological Buffering (with A Midsummer Night’s Dream tangent)
Posted in personal, pondering on August 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Intarweb technology infection
Posted in personal on August 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »
In the last three months I’ve:
Started a blog
Gotten a new cell phone
Started texting
Gotten on Twitter
Gotten on Shizzow
Decided that I really need a GPS unit so I can load data to OpenStreetMap and possibly try geocaching
I’m sure it’s not all that exciting, really, but I feel kind of like I’m almost getting caught up on where [...]
Upcoming
Posted in personal, pondering on August 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I am suddenly displeased that my parents will be visiting this weekend and sick with anxiety over the three-week trip that is coming up. The trip will probably be wonderful, and the visit will probably not be too bad, but the enforced… pause? purely physical separation? from my current life (especially the run of excellent [...]
Present
Posted in personal, pondering on August 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Somehow, even when I’m loving the now, I have a tendency to think ahead. Which is itself not necissarily a bad thing, but can result in missing what’s going on at the moment because I’m thinking about what will (or might) happen in the future.
Right now is excellent. The future is looking pretty terrific too. [...]
Things Lately
Posted in personal on August 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
There was an open house at the Customs House building downtown about two weeks ago. M & M and I went and prowled around the massive, vacant building. It’s been empty for 3 years (I think) and was most recently used to house the Army Corps of Engineers. It’s a lovely building with some unfortunate [...]
New normal
Posted in personal, pondering on August 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Unoriginal in all sorts of ways, but true.
I’ve moved into the new place and am living alone for the first time ever. It’s nice, sort of, and lonely, sort of, and scary, sort of. I still struggle to make decisions on my own– simple ones, like which silverware pattern to buy– more than large ones. [...]
No Reason
Posted in personal on August 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
There is absolutely no reason for me to buy these shoes. None. None. None. They’re hot, certainly, but ridiculous and probably not very comfortable, and I have a metric tonne-load of impractical shoes already. Plus they’re on sale for $155, and I have done enough damage with my retail therapy already, and I’m going to [...]
Tenuous/tenacious
Posted in personal, pondering on August 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Somehow, affection is a delicate thing that can (sometimes) survive a lot of knocking about. It seems contradictory, but it’s true nonetheless. This makes the early-days balance hard to figure out, and the established-days tending easy to forget. There really should be a manual.
Marking Time
Posted in personal on August 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I feel terribly guilty about the fact that I just don’t really like spending time with my family. I love them, I do, but spending time with them is very, very dull. I invariably have 24 hours (at most) before I start thinking of the fun and/or useful things I could be doing instead of [...]
