Category Archives: Observations

Shorter than anticipated, because it’s later than anticipated

If I let this subject go any longer, I’m liable to forget all of the details. Unfortunately, it’s also about two hours past the time I declared to be my new summer bedtime. So this entry—my weekend recap—will be shorter than anticipated, so I can get to sleep. I was working 3-9 on Friday, two [...]

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Most nights, I sit in this chair…

… and watch the gnats die. I have a desk lamp with a 60-watt bulb next to me. When I’m sitting at the computer, the lamp is above me and to my right. Every few minutes, a gnat will fly up into the light. Every time, without fail, it hits the bulb and gets burnt. [...]

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The world outside my window is beautiful

The birds have been chirping away in the lightening darkness for about half an hour now, and there was nary a sound aside from them and the occasional squeak of a skunk. But a gentle rain just started falling and interrupted many of the birds. I can’t see it because of the darkness, but the [...]

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Biking and beaches, thoughts and observations

Memorial Day was sweet. I woke up to my dad sarcastically asking me if I was going to let my alarm go off all day long, at noon. I decided it was a good as time as ever to wake up (and shut my alarm), so I did. My mom made me a sandwich and [...]

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Pseudo-stream of consciousness at 3:46 AM

Saturday night (or more accurately, Sunday morning) has been a constant fixture in my mind. I can’t get it off my mind. I was trying so hard to focus on Jean Toomer and Ernest Hemingway today in American Lit, but it just wasn’t working. Speaking of American Lit, there was a girl sitting behind me [...]

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Observations from the bed of Justin

A faint beeping permeates the air around me. It’s a bit of a distraction, I’ll admit. A hallmate’s alarm? I cannot know for sure. I consider getting up to knock on the noisemaker’s door, because after all, it’s 5:16 AM. But the comfort of my bed precludes me from doing so, and I continue to [...]

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Bulleted points are nice when there’s no coherent narrative

When you’ve got a collection of not-exactly-related topics, what better way to organize them than to put them all in a giant bulleted list? Taxes, my vanquished enemy! I have completed you, and am demanding a refund! I got my taxes filed and in the mail today. Hopefully, with the rather substantial sum I’ll be [...]

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Pretty weird: We exist outside of our own consciousnesses

I was just doing my rounds in WestCo and was talking to a dude, and he asked if I were going to post on this year’s freshman listserv, too. I made an offhand comment about how “Heh, I still post on collegeconfidential.” And then he said, “Yeah, I heard” (with the real life equivalent of [...]

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Conversations with strangers: Ignoring my mother’s advice

“Don’t talk to strangers.” I hate that saying. I hate it. I was thinking, jumping from one topic to the next, when i somehow latched on to the memory of my conversation with a guy on the way to New York. This guy had HIV. He was 28, HIV positive from his girlfriend, dropped out [...]

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Hats off to El Niño and global warming!

I wish El Niño could have given us this gift on a day when I didn’t have to work. Yeah, I’m at The Westin at Copley Place, gazing longingly out these giant plate-glass windows at Copley Square, the Public Library and the Fairmont; at all the people walking around on the sidewalks; at the little [...]

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