Dear John Mark,
Somewhere approaching six years ago, I had my first interaction with you. It was a terrifying moment in my life. I didn’t have a clue who you were, except that you were interviewing me for admittance into the Torrey Honors Institute. You introduced yourself, but I was not aware of your position in the program. I won’t go into the details of the conversation, but I do remember backing myself into a corner, saying what I realize now were naive things, and you let me into the program, for some reason or another. Read more…
It has been quite a bit of time since I’ve updated this blog. I haven’t forgotten, but I’d be lying if I said it was from a lack of interesting things happening. I’ve been doing a lot of writing in other venues (classes, preparation for other blogs, etc) which has taken up a lot of my time. In addition, the spring semester has been kicking off, and I was attempting to make the most of my January term class (and relative amount of free time) by spending time with friends. I’ve probably played more games than I have written posts in the last month, but the break was helpful for me. Read more…
Rather than finding a way to convince myself that writing a poem for tomorrow will be the best way to fill my time–a task I was having trouble beginning let alone accomplishing–I decided that I would rather just write what came to mind without much aim or goal. The following is just a collection of things I’m currently working through and/or would like to write more about but may or may not ever actually have time or necessary drive to actually do so. Forgive any errors, ideologically or in spelling, as these are rather hastily written. Most will not commit to anything so strongly as to offend, but perhaps some will strike the reader as plainly wrong or silly. For that, I do apologize. Read more…
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 5,100 times in 2011. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 4 trips to carry that many people.
Click here to see the complete report.
I am finally finished with almost everything for my finals week (I have one more reflection to write, which will likely become a blog post, and a little bit of reading to do today), so the blog will be back! And then I will come to the week I take off every year, between Christmas and New Years. So…I’m glad to be back, but I’ll be disappearing again for a little bit. There’s a lot to look forward to, though, and I’ve already been writing quite a bit, just not primarily for here.
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