January 2010
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never end one of those with a question mark
just make sure nothing fishy is going on ok
Good lord.
I just accidentally deleted, irretrievably, ALL OF MY MUSIC. It’s a long story that has to do with iTunes and automatic syncing.
So it sucks.
But at least I get a fresh start.
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There’s no such thing as perfect writing. Just like there’s no such...
– Murakami Haruki
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Three years ago, Murakami told me a story. He had just opted out of his...
– Roland Kelts, ‘What We Talk About When We Talk About Murakami’, A Wild Haruki Chase: Reading Murakami Around the World.
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…Existence is fleeting; certainty is illusory; thought is stranger than...
– Richard Powers, ‘The Global Distributed Self-Mirroring Subterranean Neurological Soul-Sharing Picture Show’, A Wild Haruki Chase: Reading Murakami Around the World
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Today --
Mills and USF app
Phil 133 reading
Soc 170A reading
Other reading
Transcripts for Mills and USF
Lifting — abs, back, shoulders; deadlift, rows, shoulder press
Cardio — spinning
WRITE WRITE WRITE
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Vietnam-Perkasie, chapter 23
It’s really worth a read, or else I wouldn’t have taken the time to type it all up :)
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The next morning, Amagasu and I were sitting in the S-2 shop going over the ISum when Sergeant Trinh walked in. We both said hello, but Trinh only nodded and continued to the far end of the bunker where Captain Braithewaite was talking with the battalion commander and the operations officer....
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Vietnam-Perkasie, a combat marine memoir
Reading from the Vietnam War class I’m auditing. This is by W. D. Ehrhart.
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“Look at the barrel on this thing,” I said, extracting the bolt and holding the chamber up to the light. The rifling was almost completely gone, and the barrel was heavily pitted. “You couldn’t hit a Cadillac at twenty paces with this piece. I wouldn’t even try to fire it - blow up...
They had a sign up that read FLOODED, but I didn’t believe them. Or I believed them, but wanted to test it out, anyway. So down I biked under the bridge by the irrigation river. On my way back, the rain really started pouring. I couldn’t see anything. It was dangerous fun. I got home in one piece. It was an alien planet with no people.
GODDAMMIT
vietnamesesforbeginners1:
I completely forgot about the coronas in T’s fridge…
I didn’t ;D
This weather
Is an excellent excuse to go outside.
Having trouble going at my own pace.
Small problems. Easily rectifiable. Will do.
Besides that: Tumble soon. This sucks. Too tweet-like.
Note to self to download some songs
Hey There Delilah
500 Miles (Away from Home)
Scribbles #1
First in a series of scribbles. These may be useful/comprehensible in themselves, or not. What they all have in common is that they catch my interest and may appear as event/theme/in some form in my future writing.
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Simulacrum - slight, unreal, or superficial likeness or semblance. an effigy, image, or representation.
The difference between a missile and a meteor. Coincidence between...