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Archive for year 2010
Where to begin…again.
4470 days
by kilian
in Random Normality
The family and I are now fully ensconced in the Pacific Northwest and our lives have taken on some semblance of normalcy…, er, normality. For some reason or another I’m actually spending much more time at the bookmines, which is frustrating for a number of reasons, but the one that is most pertinent to this forum, is the fact that I am finding less and less time to write.
I deal best with stress by ignoring it.
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I could write about how just two weeks ago my wife, out of the blue, got offered her dream job in Seattle (we currently live in So. Cal., for those keeping score) and now we are moving next week. I could go on about how we don’t actually have a place to live in Seattle…with much detail on the two days the wife and I spent their only to see our first choice fall through, and even more detail on how she was in the Pacific Northwest yesterday (flying home today) again, trying to locate a place for us to live. I could go on about how, as yet, I am unsure about my prospects; re: making money. Thursday is my last at the current bookmines so… And then last night, Bella says that she doesn’t want to leave our house where, in her words, “everything is perfect.”
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When so much has happened, and so much time has passed, where does one begin?
4581 days
by kilian
in Random Normality
There has been so much frustration in my life these past few months. Frustration and, oddly enough, a fair amount of enjoyment as well. And then, completely out of the blue, today my family’s life changed dramatically. It is an odd sensation, to sit here and think that just a week ago I felt one way about my life while today, I feel almost completely different.
I don’t want to alarm anyone, though I doubt there is anyone reading this, so I’ll just say this change has been decidedly for the good. Right now, though, I’m just not ready to say anything more.
kilian
My Baby My Darling at Dusk
1639 days
by Mustardseed Cochrane
in Music
I was out the door in the morning. There was a trip to the DMV followed by errands all around town. There was that sharp and sometimes multiple popping and cracking sound when I stretched my neck and shoulders by the time it was dusk, vivid and beautiful and languid. I wanted dinner, and a beer if there was one in the fridge. There was still the drive home, though. Music, that’s going to help. Put something on and hey, why not something new which I’ve never heard before? Expand the musical tastes. She & Him Volume Two? Okay.
The Battle is Lost…the War Continues
1709 days
by kilian
in Random Normality
Early excitement about the perceived usefulness of my phone in allowing me to post more often has been tinged with some frustration.
Long has it been established that some sort of visual stimuli accompany the textual variety. My assumption that adding images through the phone would work just as well as adding the text has been proven wrong most heinously as evidenced by the previous post’s severe lack of anything resembling an image.
More importantly, this turn of events dampers the high hopes I had for the aforementioned new areas of online inquiry.
Typographical Errors Commence
0710 days
by kilian
in Random Normality
This marks the first in a new era for me and digital style publication. I’ve had an iPhone for awhile now…necessitated by my venturing into the realm of online, university-style instruction. This is the first post, however, that has been written on my phone.
Of course, this the third attempt at getting it to actually post. That, coupled with the strange alchemy that is predictive text, has made this post very annoying to complete.
I do have some ideas percolating for new directions in online time wasting…
Lost and Found
2736 days
by kilian
in Random Normality
I can’t even remember the last time I posted here. The standard reasons I have offered in the past can be brought out and beaten (though they are long since dead), yet again: kids, teaching, bookmines, exhaustion.
It remains to be seen how frequent…if at all, updates will come, though my intentions are pure in this regard.
It is also quite likely that none of our other contributors will be back, though at least a couple have claimed a willingness to try…or at least to try to try…