Monthly Archives: January 2008

These are the days of our lives

I’ve been trying to live life this semester so that every day means something important. I think that effort has been largely successful so far. I have met plenty of new people, taken some atypical chances socially, and have come to an inner peace regarding some relations that had been unsettled.
I have begun mentoring Middletown [...]

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Well, that was a new feeling!

Two birthday parties in one night was quite an affair. I must say, that was more than I’d bargained for, on many fronts. I think it’s about time I went to bed, though. I’ve published an extensive private post on the night and some general (and unfinished) thoughts, but maybe tomorrow when I wake up, [...]

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Stupid Face: The meaning of volatility

From the New York Times:
“The market has this out-of-control feeling, and until the market sees some semblance of stability, it’s going to continue to be very volatile,” said Richard Sparks, senior equities analyst at Schaffer’s Investment Research.
Gee, Mr. Sparks, thanks for defining volatile for me!

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Positively bubbly, Pt. I

It is 4:31 PM and the sky is still a cool blue. It is still quite light outside. I am positively bubbly, and everything is going very, very well.

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A quick note on Wesleying

For all the abuse and anonymous nitpicking criticism I get on the blog, I was at the hearing at City Hall tonight, and was sitting next to a Middletown resident who reads Wesleying. He said I was doing a great job, and that he just couldn’t understand all the complaints, especially about the heading “In [...]

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Today embodied all I hope this semester will be

And maybe I will have some time to write about it all tomorrow. Good night.

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Short remarks as the semester begins

It’s 10 o’clock the night before classes begin; I’m feeling pretty good. Tomorrow I have Order and Planning in the History of Economic Thought, as well as Politics and Piety in Early Christianities. Tommy pointed out that the Christianities class is a discussion-based course with only twenty students. ::Gulp:: I need to work on that [...]

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Hawksley Workman’s “Piano Blink”

This is quite possibly the best song I’ve ever heard about breakups and heartbreaks. I wish this had come out a few years ago, rather than a week from now. It’s not on iTunes or in stores yet, but you can listen to it at the Hawksley Workman website; check out that link.
Let’s lie and [...]

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Another disjointed entry with no main point

Sometimes it’s best just to spill the contents of one’s mind, I think. And this post is an example of such spillage.
I woke up to a beautiful snowstorm, the kind with the heavy, wet snow that sticks to everything and makes all the tree branches sag until they touch the ground. The flakes were big [...]

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Statistical analysis of my server logs

Every once in a while I’ll take a look at the server logs for my sites, and see how many people are visiting, what they’re looking at, and how they’re getting here. I always find some interesting things. Here are some facts about The Justin Network:

In the eleven months that justinlaselva.com was operational in 2007, [...]

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