Category Archives: Summer

Crunchin’ the numbers

By Justin | August 17, 2008

Summer is usually my time to make up for all the money I spent over the course of the school year, and to make money to pay my part of the tuition for the coming year. Well, it didn’t really work out that way this summer. I crunched some numbers and discovered that I made [...]

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Also posted in Money | 4 Comments

Adventures on the North River

By Justin | June 26, 2008

Wendy and I went out on the North River today, a neat and beautiful 6-mile trip that included paddling up, then down, the river in a canoe (my first canoe trip), and jumping off the Union Street bridge in Scituate (my first bridge jump). I could go into details about how fun it was, how [...]

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Things I have seen this summer

By Justin | June 25, 2008

The first third of my summer is nearly past. I have seen many things. I have seen hail horizontally riding the wind, and I have seen lightning arc across the entire sky in a beautiful but frightening chain, electrifying the entire atmosphere. I have seen the charred remains of a section of forest, blackened to [...]

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John McCain, and other tidbits

By Justin | June 11, 2008

I need to wake up in 4.5 hours for work. I’ve been trying to take the T to work, but the garage at Braintree is always full and I have nowhere to park my car, so I just get on the highway and deal with traffic and construction and gas prices and greenhouse gas emissions. [...]

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Also posted in Money, Politics, Weather, Work | 11 Comments

Summer, in smaller chunks than desired

By Justin | June 3, 2008

Summer proceeds, though in smaller chunks than desired. Working five days a week is a bummer, especially when those five days include Friday night, all day Saturday, and all day Sunday. Nevertheless, being trapped inside for five days of the week makes me appreciate all the more those few days off, and soon after waking [...]

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Also posted in Dreams, Exercise, Family, Home, Movies, Outdoors, Personal, Sleep, Work | Tagged | Leave a comment

Big things are afoot: a short summer update

By Justin | June 1, 2008

I know I have not written here in a while, but sadly, it’s 3:48 AM and this won’t be a very informative entry. I’m only writing it since I can’t stop thinking enough to be able to fall asleep. Which is not good. Because I have to wake up in 4.5 hours for work… I’m [...]

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Also posted in Personal, Sleep, Volunteering | Tagged | 5 Comments

Taking down the pool, and woodland animals

By Justin | May 24, 2008

Since we hadn’t opened our pool in a few summers, we decided to take it down. Or, well, my dad and I decided to take it down. My mom was a bit less enthusiastic, since she tended to use it a lot. But, aside from my mom, no one used it very much anymore, and [...]

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Also posted in Animals, Home | 1 Comment

Some post-Spring Break notes

By Justin | March 22, 2008

Looking at the long-outdated websites of old bands that I love makes me sad. Take, for example, the website of Something Corporate. The artwork reflective of their 2003 release North, the headline story about a 2002 show at Tower Records. The pre-Web 2.0 cluttered design (actually a bit refreshing), the falling leaves in the Flash [...]

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Also posted in Academics, Money, Work | 2 Comments

Tentative thoughts about summer jobs

By Justin | January 5, 2008

I was thinking about doing something relating to electronic voting machines and verifiable voting policies. It’s something I have a lot of interest in, it gives me some real-world experience in policy or maybe public relations or government advocacy, and it would (hopefully) be fun. Only problem is, I might have to go out to [...]

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The indignity of a deer’s watery death

By Justin | August 18, 2007

Drove into Boston one last time. Then had to drive to Milton. Went to lunch with Chris, then got locked out of his house. And then we got in. Went to the Marshfield Fair. It rained a lot, and we all got soaked. My mop of hair soaked much of it up and kept me [...]

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