Category: Personal
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On the other side of the world…
I used to get annoyed by this sound by the end of summer, but right now I sort of miss it. Maybe because summer has begun. Of course, here I have a virtual aviary surrounding me, which I would surely miss if I were on the other side of the world again for long. Such…
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Fail, fail again.
UPDATED at bottom Apparently since February, Amazon.com has been de-ranking books that are gay-themed in some way, thus basically making them unsearchable as titles on the site, and taking them out of the view of potential readers. I don’t have the “facts” on this, but it does seem to be true. There are many titles…
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Dreaming backwards
In another month and a half it will be three years since I returned home from Japan. Some days it feels as if I just got back. I’m not sure of what that’s an indication, other than my life became the busiest it has ever been for the past couple of years, and perhaps that’s…
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Spring Break, adult style, no girls gone wild
Over the next week I will write a proposal for the creation of a new course at my university, write a proposal for an independent study course for the second graduate degree I am pursuing, write an essay for the graduate program I am doing while teaching full time, and attempt to write in my…
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Valentine’s Cats
We got these little dudes a year ago today, and I’ve regretted it every day since. Just look at their faces. Regret is written all over them. …
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Snowbound
I was supposed to fly out of Newark, New Jersey this morning. If you haven’t been paying attention to weather reports, the northeast is having a blizzardy time of it. I got to the airport via train from Penn Station in NYC and made it all the way up to the check-in counter, plugging in…
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On Thanksgiving
I have very few complaints in life right now, and those that I do have are ones predicated on the loss of some undeserving great fortune I’ve had–the sort of fortune that is the whim of fate and when it leaves you can only be grateful that it ever arrived in the first place. So…
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Perplexed
The other night, I was running in the university gym, and on one of the television screens above my head, CNN was running some segment that had something to do with Wall Street and the stock market plunging, and they kept cutting to different business-y looking people, who were obviously saying all kinds of stuff.…
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An update
Life is busy, as usual, here. It’s the end of the semester, so school is actually coasting along from my point of view as a teacher; from my point of view as a student in a low residency MFA program, though, it’s still all uphill. Essays to write, business plans for hypothetical literary ventures. Eventually…
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All emo for the polis
A friend writes five minutes after Ohio has been called for Obama and says that he’s immediately fallen in love with my state now. I feel the same way, with a small variation on the feeling, though. I feel like that unsure partner who receives a sign that perhaps it’s okay to put yourself back…