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This weekend was completely unremarkable until Mingo called earlier tonight -- he's been looking for a job in the Triangle and is going to fly down for interviews this week. His whole family might be moving down here in the near future (quite a thought!). Also, I'd somehow managed to never inform him of my deconversion until now, despite the fact that it occurred almost four years ago. Of course he was surprised, but that revelation led into all sorts of interesting conversation about mindsets and our parents and his relationship with Kelly and so forth. It'll be good to see him in person this weekend.
It's weird when siblings grow up.
posted on Monday, February 27, 2006
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Thin Mints are the best thing that ever happened to cookies.
posted on Tuesday, February 21, 2006
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Amy came over late last evening, staying until past five. Night-long conversations between us are quite familiar by now -- it's probably been a year since we hung out in any other fashion -- but we're both, in many ways, only beginning to open up to each other. She's naturally reticent about some aspects of herself, while I'd long been unwilling to discuss certain matters with a Christian friend. By the time she left I was drowsy to the point of incoherence, though the freezing air briefly revived me as I walked out to her car with her.
Didn't get a jot of work done this weekend.
posted on Sunday, February 19, 2006
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Under a colorless sky, snowflakes are drifting past my open window, through which summery breezes were blowing only a few days ago. Occasionally one snags and tears on the screen, leaving a fragment to melt slowly, studding my framed view of the outside world with glittering droplets. The uniquely gray luster of a snowy day spills vaguely across the near wall. It's nice.
Both of the football games this morning were brief and and merciless, though I judge my personal performance to've been sufficient. I'd say the team practices were the good bit of the season. Classes last week were easy, and I got back several papers and tests with surprisingly good grades. Dav has recently been singling me out as an opponent for philosophical debate, which had become almost a novelty to me over the past few years. Nowadays that kind of argument is as much a test of my patience as of my logical ability, especially when I'm opposite a Christian.
posted on Saturday, February 18, 2006
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In deference to the approaching holiday and the supposed societal pressures accompanying, I'm taking a few minutes to closely inspect the less rational part of myself. Looking beyond my dominant and genuine contentment, I find phrases rehearsed but never recited, jealousy burning against no particular friend, the often dormant loneliness, apathies both real and pretended.
Writing that has cast a lousy mood about me, but in truth I'd have difficulty sustaining such a state.
posted on Monday, February 13, 2006
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Last weekend I saw several good movies (Transporter 2, American History X and The Shining), helped Sam dispose of some unwanted vodka while watching Fullmetal Alchemist and Neon Genesis Evangelion, had dinner with my family, and acquired Koolaid mix, a crate of clementines, and vast amounts of vanilla yogurt with which to fill my new fridge.
Monday I had coffee with Christa; wandering on my own afterward, I discovered some crampedly awesome shops behind Franklin Street. That night I moved from the door side to the window side of my room. Yesterday I gave myself a buzz cut with borrowed clippers; and today I decided I didn't really have any excuses to avoid playing football.
With the window open above my bed and sunlit air streaming through, it's easy to imagine I'm outside as I doze off in the late afternoon. How better to enjoy this freakishly mild weather?
And on top of all that, most of my classes are great. I think I like this semester.
posted on Wednesday, February 01, 2006
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