pantsfarm

2008 feels like it flew by.
Shortly before the start of 2008 I decided that I wanted to pay to live somewhere that was not my parents’ home. It was in the first week of 2008 that I actually moved all two of my bags into my current residence. It wasn’t a huge [...]

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Reminded / inspired by my friend Ani’s post referencing The Aims of Education address I thought to go back and reread some of them including my own.
Originally, I wanted to go through and read a lot of the addresses, perhaps starting a year or two before the one given at my orientation, and [...]

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Last week, not even, last Saturday was a memorial for my grandfather, Henry Lewis Stadler.
I didn’t think I was going to be that moved by the occasion but when my grandmother suddenly asks me to say something (which was kind of not ok, even though I said it was) I found myself much [...]

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In the process of reading a few blogs of people I don’t know, I’ve come across more than one instance of people writing friend inventories. A couple things I noticed in the course of all this reading about other people’s lives:

The kind of person who does this sort of thing seems to usually be a [...]

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These days I feel like I could easily sit down every day for a week or two and write 500 words about things I don’t like or that make me angry. Sometimes I do. Maybe I should try and channel that into something productive like NaNoWriMo.

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I’ve just now finished reading Michael Pollan’s recently published piece in the New York Times Magazine titled Farmer in Chief.
While I was reading it, I had a brief moment where I was gripped with a visceral fear. I do not often find myself dreading the future as I did just now. [...]

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I was talking to one of my roommates earlier this week and she was saying how she had such a terrible day or something. I don’t remember the exact details however at the time I thought she was maybe complaining a lot and somehow I ended up making the statement “but you have so [...]

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Last week I went to the US and spent a week running around frantically meeting with friends for meals, drinks, coffee, shopping and pretty much whatever other occasion could be made up for the purpose of catching up with friends.
Shortly before departing, I wrote a post pondering changes in people. Then, during [...]

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Of course people do change, in what I can only assume is a great many senses. Physically through the course of our lives we grow and or bodies show signs of this continued wear. This is superficial, perhaps, as after all, the code governing just how that person continues to grow remains, while [...]

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A while ago I read the book Blink by Malcolm Gladwell. One of the things I remember from it was about this guy who could predict very well very quickly whether or not a married couple would stay married in the long term, by listening to them interact. I forget if he was [...]

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