21 Mar 2003 – Today I turn Six. 21 Mar 2002 – Today I Turn Five. In seven years, I have never once forgotten this day. I have anticipated it, relived the events in my mind, spent the day in reflection, and taken time to list how lucky I am and how good life has…
Welcome to my Thursday. I’ve been busy helping visiting researchers do a prevalence study. It’s been a lot of time and not much work. The data collection is going smoothly. Too smoothly. I guess planning is everything, but I’ve been standing around doing little. Once we got things set up and going, I largely became…
From today’s New York Times article on the Supreme Court hearing the case regarding the Pledge of Allegiance and “one nation under God”: Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist noted that Congress unanimously added the words “under God” in the pledge in 1954. “That doesn’t sound divisive,” he said. This strikes me as a very strange…
#11 on Life’s Little Ironies List: The busier I am, the more I have to write and the less time I have to write it in.
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Lunch table conversation: “Hey Booker! You’ll never guess who spoke at my church yesterday!” “You got me, Pookey. Who?” “We had a lady give the sermon! Nobody showed up!” “Didn’t your church vote against that years ago? I remember you talking about that.” “I don’t know why they have to change things like this. It’s…
Some copraphagic piece of humanity (who lacks a valid, two-parent birth certificate and is undoubtedly capable of conjugal feats of self-gratification that would defy the abilities of mere mortal assholes) has put a deep, eleven-inch scratch in the back bumper of my Prius. There is no circle of Hell suitable. There is no jury that…
Music doesn’t make life worth living, but like spices added to cooking, it makes life taste better. I went into a local used/new CD store yesterday for Norha Jones “Feels Like Home”. They had it on sale there. I also walked out with Alan Parsons Project, two REM’s, a They Might be Giants, and a…
My office smells like daffodils. That helps, a little bit. We got snow last night, lots of last-day-of-winter snow. It was still falling when I left for work this morning in big, fat splat-flakes that looked artificial. Perhaps it’s the late date of this snowfall, or maybe everybody is just tired and ready to give…
Actually, on the evils of corticosteroids. My first encounter with steroids was post surgical, last summer. The second was just these past four weeks or so. They have a deserved reputation for affecting mood, and for appetite enhancement. The mood swings for me are the worst. I have been nearly suicidal, I’ve been manic, I’ve…