#84 – Life is defined by maintenance. All you do in life is try to maintain it. You eat for energy to do it again. you sleep to do it again. You work to pay for it again. You do more or something new to make you happy…again. Life becomes a huge cycle of maintenance. [...]
Click here to see the full text
Tags: bills, eat, enegery, food, happiness, life, live, maintain, maintenance, pay, play, sleep, stuff, Work
Comments: -, 157 views
I’m not sure there’s a global norm or scientist/hygiene recommended expiration date on sheets. There especially confusion (for me, at least) around sheets in the guest room. Do you only put on the sheets when they arrive? How long can you leave the sheets on there before someone uses them or they need to be [...]
Click here to see the full text
Tags: bed, blanket, clean, health, pillow, poll, questions, rest, sheets, sleep, social norms, wash
Comments: 2, 571 views
In the summer of 1996, my family took a trip around the country in a Winnebago. Along the way, we stopped at Mount Rushmore. In the middle of the night. I was asleep as we rolled into the parking lot. I’m not a quick one to rise, so by the time everyone was heading out [...]
Click here to see the full text
Tags: family, mount rushmore, sleep, state parks, trespassing, underwear, Winnebago
Comments: -, 786 views
I was staying in a hotel with Kallie’s family, and I went over to the other room where everyone was. As soon as I walked through the door, Wally prompted me to answer this question. I paused, half defeated. I thought I was in an unfair position due to my freshman dorm experience at Pitt. [...]
Click here to see the full text
Tags: behaviorism, disrepectful, dorms, family, freud, germs, gross, Kallie, lothrop, Lothrop Hall, pavlov, pee, Pitt, sink, sleep, university of pittsburgh, urination, wally
Comments: 2, 753 views
It’s been a while since I posted a personal update. Things in married life go well. New job goes well. Thinking about going back to school in the fall. That might be the level of detail you get in the updates going forward…not really sure. I don’t really want to write about my life with [...]
Click here to see the full text
Tags: Atonement, bible, Billy Talent, Blade Runner, Cheyne Stoking, christ, church, Dead Man Shoes, dreams, easter, Everclear, friends, funny, God, Heinz Hall, home, house, internet meme, J. Alfred Prufrock, Kallie, Keren, love, Michael Jackson, Mike, mom, movie, Nova Scotia, people, pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Symphony, poem, President of the United States of America, sad, school, sleep, song, Soul Coughing, Sparkle and Fade, travel, United States of America, Waking Life, War of the Worlds
Comments: -, 1,392 views