As you know, I ahve a spreadsheet that I use to keep track of all of the unread and unwatched media for my Uncollecting project. Two of the columns on the sheet are: "Do I own this?" and "If not, where can I get it?" For books, I indicate that I can find them at …
Category: Reflections
Cheat Days
In my mission statement of sorts, I've mentioned how I work in a few "cheat days" into every year. They consist of two Friends of the Library sales, tent day sales at my LCS (usually FCBD and Thanksgiving weekend) and the Baltimore Comic-Con. Well, the first set of those recently passed. I only started going …
Return of the Abandoned Writing Projects
I've written about this before, but the other day, I was flipping through a notebook of essay ideas and notes and realized that many of them have sat unwritten for nearly 5 years. I started flipping trhough them--mainly because I was procrastinating on writing--and wound up feeling a weird range of emotion. Okay, that sounds …
Shirking my Obligations?
I think I have written about this before, so my apologies in advance; then again, this blog seems to be about coming back to the same topics, ideas, and thoughts over and over. I suppose that is often a good thing, but I also know that I am a classic overthinker, so what for some …
Personal Archaeology 28: Personalized
As I was cleaning/organizing our office closet the other day (read: moving boxes around and not really doing much else), I found a hockey jersey that was one of my prized possessions when I was a teenager. A lot of my friends and I owned hockey jerseys and some owned what the NHL shop calls …
Spare me the woo
Photo credit: https://bestpicko.com/ So I meditate every morning. It's something I've been doing for years, and when the app I use--Insight Timer--said they were having a "refresh and reset" challenge for January 2024, I decided to give it a try. Why not? It was free, the meditations were ten minutes, and I do it every …
Personal Archaeology 27: Voices Inside
My "collection" of student newspapers from high school. The first one is from September 1992; the last is from June 1995. In my senior year of high school, I decided I wanted to be a writer, and I figured that the easiest way to make that happen was to go into a career in journalism. Why that …
Complaining is my Default Setting
There's a scene in The Matrix where Agent Smith is villain monologuing at Morpheus and he says: "Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world? Where none suffered, where everyone would be happy. It was a disaster. No one would accept the program. Entire crops were lost. Some …
Personal Archaeology 25: Pictures You Never Took of Things That Are No Longer There
It's September 11, which means that my social media feeds have more than one commemorative status. They're not as abundant this year as they were last year, which marked 20 years since the attacks, so I didn't find myself facing as many eagles, flags, and "Never Forget" posts as usual. That's made scrolling a little …
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Personal Archaeology 22: On College, Philosophy, Love, Friendship, and Acceptance
So I have been part of a listserv for My So-Called Life fandom for 20 years. The emails flowed from a trickle to a complete stop years ago when a number of us shifted over to social media or moved on altogether, but back in October, it sprang to life again for a little while. …
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