January 2010
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Open Letter
Dear Obnoxiously Loud Girl at Breakfast,
I like to eat my cereal in quiet. Your endless blathering was insufferable. Be silent.
Love,
Me
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I think I'm going to do Makin' Music
Again. This is almost too good to pass up. And I forget painful feet and long practices all to quickly. And I don’t forget rushing the stage. Which sounds pretty good right now. I need to rush something. And yes, I’m in Honors, and yes, I have 18 hours, and yes, I have a work study job. But what the heck, right?
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“If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has...”
– dear old CS Lewis
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“More and more, it feels like I’m doing a really bad impersonation of...”
– Chuck Palahniuk
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I find myself wanting. I am tired, and I feel the constant force of inertia upon me. My very nature is a frustration to me. I’m selfish and so enveloped in what Maslow would call “self-actualization” that I have started sliding backward. Yes, I love people, but I love them wrong. When I love them, they hurt. I tried to cast out fear and achieve a perfect love, and yet I find myself more fearful...
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Two quotes by von Goethe
These seem contradictory, but together they inform my belief in the perfectibility of the individual.
“If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.”
““Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.””
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God made creepers too
Gen. 1:26
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
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Breakfast Club
For the first time in my life, I read poetry during breakfast. It was the most in tune I have ever felt, which surprised me. Walt Whitman is great early morning company. I found many, many quotable phrases from his Song of Myself. One of my favorites:
“I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable. I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.”
It sounds so primeval, so...
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“The great ages of prose are the ages in which men shave. The great ages of...”
– Robert Lynd
Bring it.
Finally. Freed-Hardeman is here. Or rather, I am here. This moment cannot be overestimated, especially after a semester abroad. It’s been seven months since I have been in a class on this campus, and I’m surprised to say that I missed the experience. Bio 2:Zoology is about to start, and the class is filling up slowly. And I’m writing a Tumblr post. Ridic.
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Detox Day 3 - Getting there...
I saw a little bit of Morning’s back as he walked away from me today. Once again, I woke up at 9 o’clock, ate a little, and returned to the warmth of my artificially shadowed room. I got up an entire hour earlier today as compared with yesterday: 11:30 am. Thirty precious minutes of morning were mine to own. I spent them in foggy-minded wonderment as to how I managed to even
The...
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Detox Day 2- Progress? Regress?
Yesterday I woke up at 10 o’clock and went back to bed until noon. Today, I got up at 9 o’clock but I went back to bed until 12:30. I can’t decide if i’m improving or veering off course.
Since I’ve been up, I have made myself useful. I confirmed my rooming situation (Benson 118, with the famous E-Sco), made some progress in Surprised by Hope and Dune, and...
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“Humans live best when each has his own place, when each knows where he belongs...”
– Lady Jessica, in Frank Herbert’s Dune
Hot Air Balloon to the Moon
We’re Enlightened, And we’re light. We float in flight, Peering down at the rest so far, far below. We love it! We’re on the up and away we fly. Our tune is lifting, Our spirits high. So we soar, we soar! We reach, we grasp For more and more. The limit, heaven. The fuel, our burning passion. but Passion was too much. Passion, the culprit. Passion burst the dam. There came the waters...
Something different
5 rounds of:
20 back fly
20 kettlebell swing
100m speed
Detox Day 1
No, I’m not on drugs, though I might as well be. I’m on Sleep. Let’s just say that since I finished my Borders job for the season, I have done my very best to invent human hibernation. I’m convinced that at the height of this ridiculous sleep regimen I could have easily lived on 20 percent of my normal food intake. For the past several days (weeks?), I have been getting out of bed at 3 or...
And again.
Getting ready…
60 bar speed squats
60 bar curls
60 bar chest press
60 chest fly
60 leg raises
60 crunches
60 push-ups
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“- I’ve been thinking, Hobbes —
- On a weekend?
- Well, it...”
– Calvin and Hobbes
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Welcome Back, Crossfit
Self-tailored, easing-back-into-it workout of today:
50 bar curls
50 speed squats (25 air, 25 bar)
50 chest press
50 chest fly
50 push-ups
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“It is better to be a fool than to be dead. It is better to emit a scream in the...”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
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"The Gospel of Glee: Is It Anti-Christian?" by...
Glee, the hit show about a high school Glee club, has very sharp claws, which is one reason kids like it so much. It is routinely, if hilariously, cruel (the sweet jock is described as so dumb, “he’s cheating off a girl who thinks the square root of 4 is rainbows”). But no darker current—let alone motivation for parental monitoring—had occurred to me until I recently...
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Title-orphaned
The wait was worth the while And life its lessons taught, Though little that I asked Became my present lot. The hope that birthed my smile Naked has been caught. I find it now unmasked, With nothing that I sought. But hope can never faint Without a phoenix flare And now it soars much higher, The furthest from despair. I feel myself more joyful; I cannot pretend! That patience proved to be...
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