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Monthly Archives: March 2004

You (I) get what you deserve

Monday, March 29, 2004

1) In some basic way, David Brooks’s assertion here is right.
2) I feel awful.
3) I get what I deserve.

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You never know, even when you know

Saturday, March 27, 2004

Last summer, I met an amiable older gentlemen who, while restrained when talking about most topics, nearly flew off the handle from time to time, especially when certain subjects were broached. He and I had lunch, always with other people, probably 15 times between June and December of last year.
I remarked once on his [...]

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Egads!

Saturday, March 27, 2004

So I’ve been playing around with the Grados that Angie got me last weekend. They’re very clear and revealing. Too clear.
Despite being low-impedance, they still need a fair bit of power to drive properly–just not as much as similarly-sized ‘phones.
So anyway, here’s the problem: the jack on my preamp is weaker than the ones [...]

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“Rig”

Saturday, March 27, 2004

So I have a friend who uses the word “rig” too much, which is to say, ever, at all.
At least, that’s what I thought.
This is a rig. Now, how long will I be able to hold off from buying one?
I used to think that if I had an infinite amount of money and no [...]

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The things we try (and sometimes get away with)

Friday, March 26, 2004

From a freshman paper that I apparently turned in:

…Dickens gives to the true workers, who put in long hours and perform their duties with pride, virtue, happiness, and, in all but one sense of the word, success.
[assume that this unwritten section demonstrates adequately the rottenness of the idle rich and the dangers of capital. [...]

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Happy Birthday to Me?

Wednesday, March 17, 2004

Negatives:
- A– doesn’t seem to want me to come visit this weekend. I worked straight through last weekend and have contributed much overtime so far this week so that I would have the time.
And she’ll be in Germany for a while starting next week. That she didn’t bother to ask me to join her (I [...]

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I am now officially a woman

Saturday, March 13, 2004

Having spent a good chunk of my day shoping for certain recommended cosmetics, given up, and ordered about $150 of junk online, I’m already ready to give up this whole skincare thing.
Who thought it would be this difficult to find a decent facial exfoliating gel for men or exactly the right brand of toner?
I give [...]

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Naming Names

Friday, March 12, 2004

Normally, Angharad would be Ang or AKW on these pages. Generally, there’s no good reason to name people by name, almost ever, in this sort of writing.
(Other rules that AKW and I came up with while on the telephone last night:
- write less on the Internet
- talk to fewer people
- say less in general
- deny [...]

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My Rebellion

Friday, March 12, 2004

No economist is gonna tell me what to “enjoy!”

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A Wound from the Past

Thursday, March 11, 2004

Yesterday I wrote an entry about unrequited, and unknowingly dashed, not-quite-love-but-something-like-it, and, like hours later, someone responded and named the girl whom I had described.
Note that this is a girl I’ve not seen in four years. I didn’t even describe her all that well (unless the poster knew her at LC, which must be the [...]

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