December 2011
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The Fear
I have a number of persistent and unaccountable fears. They’re not the sorts of wake-in-the-night-screaming terrors that might pose any real problems with my day-to-day life, just these sort of background doubts that make me think twice before I do anything. Some are fairly trivial, though they could very well become near-manic issues with enough provocation.
Having read, and likely...
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Firelight
Mornings begin with a walk in the woods, a winding search for windfall boughs, brought to earth by gales and with portions already submitting to damp and rot. Their extremities are all dried leaves and tinder, first-class kindling. Larger limbs snapped off are still too close to life to easily light, so they’re left behind, the bough slowly sinking into the sodden soil.
There is a simple...
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I am a moron
I have a dreadful habit of just allowing my mind to submit pieces of information to my mouth without having to traverse the barrier of tact. This happened during a conversation with a couple.
Me: Well, I think we're all going to meet up on Thursday, but I might have to help put the tree up, so I'll be late.
J: That's okay, I have to go to the doctor anyway.
D: I hope it's nothing serious!
J: Nah, I just have to get my cervical cancer jab; can't be getting those cancers!
Me: Oh, I thought you could only get that if you weren't sexually active...
Stony silence.
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DreamHack Ogham
While I was in Sweden, I saw a number of things that were so fundamentally foreign I couldn’t really fix them in my mind. These things were so outside my experience that I have difficulty managing to explain or describe them now. As I try to wrap my mind around those strangenesses, I find myself guessing at details that should be certainties; I am one of those explorers who, having visited a...
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WaxAngel on Romance
Waxangel: So they can have unresolved tension for a few seasons
SirJolt: Unresolved tension is lame
Kiante: I can't remember
Waxangel: but it's nearly limitless plot energy
Kiante: She might have slept with him... I don't know though
Waxangel: It's the uranium of plot devices. Highly efficient, super long lasting, also toxic after long term exposure.
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The SirJolt Internship Program
One of the things I’ve found in my job-hunt is that there seem to be a tremendous variety of unpaid internships available under the government’s internship programs (whereby you’re “unpaid” by the business employing you, but continue to receive an allowance from the state). As an unemployed man, I found myself drawn to the idea of the internship scheme, fixated on it....