actuality.log

Wearing black makes you look slim. If you’re thin.
Toward the onset of fall, I take an unnatural delight in the stark change of fashion; a change which ushers in everything from […]

I’ve been missing writing about my life, and my (lack-of-)visitor-access-logs seem to indicate you’ve missed it too.
Recently, I’ve begun talking to the higher-ups about slowly winding up (down?) my stint in […]

Ever since I first heard about the possibility of an I, Robot movie a few years ago, I’d been pretty stoked. I wonder why it took so long for me to actually see it, but see it I did a couple of days […]

During the course of navigating your way through life, you’ll be required to play numerous roles. The son, teacher, artist, plumber, lover, student, writer, preacher, judge, chauffeur, mother… the list is continuous. Admittedly, I may not know very much about life, but there […]

I haven’t done this in ages.
Judging from the relatively static appearance of this web site (emphaticallystatic.org, remember?), you’re probably under the incorrect assumption that things have stagnated under the hood as […]

I normally stay clear of the yapping about current affairs on this journal because it gets in the way of the customary highly-self-centered content. But this article on the daily hits too close to home not to comment about: (American) Students struggle to […]

This is it people; this is what I’ve been waiting for.
Not very different from that abused little kid who spends fifteen hours a day in front of the TV hoping to […]

Fuelled perhaps by events I’ve disclosed recently, I’ve been persuaded to “put myself out there” and “see more people,” before it’s “too late.” Sadly, this has been the source of some heartache, as I am a stranger to being turned down.
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You know the conversation is taking a really wrong turn when your mother—somewhat formally—prefixes a discussion with, “And, on a more personal note… ” The queasiness that such an innocuous string of words can arouse in the pit of my tummy will be […]