Posts under ‘siblings’

I was asked, today, “Is this your first bachelors degree?” today by a classmate in a class that was canceled for the next couple of weeks so the professor can do one-on-one interviews with the students and so that we have an extra, what, hour and twenty minutes twice a week to work on our [...]

I am offering the world my list of priorities. These are the things, and to some extent the order of priority, that I take into consideration when making some of the choices I make. Believe it or not, different priorities will leap to the top of the list that seem rather low. That is because [...]

Recently James, one of the younger brothers, started a new website (ostensibly) on Jordan’s hosting account.
The website is about politics, and though this shows my vanity, and in the words of Carly Simon, “You’re so vain, you think this song is about you.” Except in this case, it’s a website, and I think it is [...]

Hi. I’ve been busy. By busy I mean I have been insanely busy. About three, maybe three and a half, weeks ago I said to Debbie, “I can write a book by Thanksgiving.” Since no one except for me and Andy (that would be reading this) really knows Debbie, that was probably the wrong thing to say. She threw down the gauntlet and challenged me to do what I was saying I could do, and had been saying I could do for some time. Fact of the matter is that I have started and set aside several books (and by books I mean tens of thousands of words written) over the past year or two because I wasn’t personally in a place to write things<. With all that said, my life has been one continuous round of work, work, work, and, uhm, work.

Have you ever just had one of those experiences that, no matter how hard you try, you just can’t get to sleep? Or, if you do get to sleep after an hour you wake up and can’t get back to sleep and so you lay about, or read, or do something else until you are so tired that you sleep, again only to sleep for an hour and start all over again. Yeah, I don’t sleep a lot at night. This is not something that is comfortable to me since I work, I go to school, I have my own projects I am working on and want to move forward with, and in the end I am frustratingly inactive during the vital parts of the day and asleep when I need to be awake - and forcing myself to be awake to try to get sleep regularly isn’t working either.

Yup, I have survived another week in New Hampshire and things seem to be going okay. Not exactly great, but okay. I start work on Monday at Borders books. It’s been a few years since I’ve worked in retail, but some job is better than no job; and I completed week two of classes and signed up for at least one class for next term. So, things are okay.

I took Andy, Debbie and the girls to the airport last Friday. On the one hand its nice to not have to deal with the shrieking and screaming of two little girls, on the other I’ve discovered that I don’t like being alone. Being alone is no longer very comfortable to me. This is new, maybe it is a surprise, probably not but maybe, and sitting around has only caused me to consider the cosmos a little more of late.