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Yesterday

A few things happened yesterday. Good things, mostly.
First off, I was having a non-productive day yesterday and barged in on some collegues of mine just to say hello. One of them recently started an online academic journal with her partner and was trying to put out their second issue but was having trouble [...]

Same old stuff but somehow, newer

I tried something radically different today in therapy. I told the truth. I confessed to being a liar. I admitted that I have the ability to produce canned responses on the spot and can make them sound as though I am baring my soul because it is easier than being honest. [...]

Tidbit

This, is hilarious.
From: Senator Robert Hagan – “Credible research exists that strongly suggests that adopted children raised in Republican households, though significantly wealthier than their Democrat-raised counterparts, are more at risk for developing emotional problems, social stigmas, inflated egos, an alarming lack of tolerance for others they deem different than themselves, and an [...]

Let’s lighten it up shall we?

I stole this from Jim’s archives.
63% (Dixie). A definitive Southern score!
W’the hell?
How in the world does a Chinese-Canadian immigrant speak English like a Southerner? Is this why I like cornbread and biscuits?

Pack it up, pack it in; Let me begin

Remember House of Pain? I wonder what happened to them. The word ‘jump’ will forever be tied in memory to Pizza Days in grade 7 wherein school toughie Jamil would always bring out “Jump Around” and put it on repeat because it beckoned to his (half) Irish roots.
Today is Friday. Piercing day. [...]

Poverty: on celluloid

These were the things I had planned on doing today:
~ Laundry in the morning
~ Purchase MS Office Suite before my trial version expires
~ Lit search on migration policy and social implications in Hong Kong
~ Some RA work
~ Watch free movies at the CCA across the street from home
This is what I did today:
~ Watch free [...]

Pong, embodied

In a fit of rage earlier today, I wanted to toss a stack of cards, letters and pictures in the trash. Then, I popped in a cd and I heard this, and I didn’t anymore.