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Archive for August 2012

downtempo

THE NEEDLE AND THE DAMAGE DONE I am an atheist and work in the scientific publishing field, two places where people are always running around yelling SHOW ME THE EVIDENCE, and normally I am sort of that way myself. However, I’m seeing an acupuncturist once a month now, for various mystery-ache and energy-level reasons. The […]

real close up

OW OW OW OW OW I have burned myself three times in the last week—one was a roasted-marshmallow accident, the other two were just me being oven-dumb. It sounds obvious to type it, but I am always astonished at how much a minor burn, the kind that does not even need treatment, hurts. I need […]

then! it happened!

RADICAL HONESTY Recently I found out that Nora intends to talk shit about me in a few years. I don’t remember how this conversation started, maybe it was something about stereotypical teen behavior that she had read in a book: Me: Yeah, a lot of kids don’t get along with their parents all the time. […]