ain’t really your life, ain’t really ain’t nothing but a movie. Repeat. Ad infinitum. Was reminded today, after reading a superb review of Thomas de Zengotita’s book Mediated, of how much my life resembles a B movie. A really, really unoriginal B movie. Thoroughly mediated. Thoroughly cliche. Can you think of any moment in your [...]
in earnest to finish up my final statement of purpose. And. I’m. Distracted. (Again.) Minus my distractable mood, I suppose I miss this. Alone, late night, good music, blinking cursor. It’s been a while. But it’s good to be back here again. Blankness. Freedom. Reflection. Bouquet is broken. It’s found on person. A threat is [...]
called the San Luis Ray River Trail. It runs parallel to a minor highway that connects to the 101 about 2.5 miles away. Having not put any miles on my feet in quite some time, I thought I’d break it in. I would’ve run all the way to the coast, but with my recent move [...]
I don’t know why I didn’t think about it before, when I heard about the United States Department of Homeland Security searching the computer contents of returning US citizens from abroad (1, 2). I originally thought it was ludicrous, of course, watching my rights dissolve as the myth of relentless and omnipresent terror seeped further [...]
So, yesterday I bought a GRE prep book. Started studying this morning. Reading through the beginning I laughed out loud when I came across this paragraph: “[while taking the GRE] You will see a fourth, unidentified, experiment section on your GRE. This section will either be Math or Verbal and will look exactly like the [...]
I don’t even know where to start. Our move to San Diego was so exhausting I don’t have the energy to write it all out so I will try to summarize. It all started with the moving company (Transamerica) consistently telling us they would call us back regarding the the status of our move and [...]
What do you all think? I just finished taking a couple exams today and I noticed something: neither of them taught me anything (besides how to take tests and that there is always a correct answer). The common paradigm seems to assume that all learning takes place in the classroom before the exam and that [...]
