Category: Reflections
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What I’m Looking Forward to this Week
I’m sleeping a ton right now–I’ve slept past 9AM every day since I’ve been unemployed–and it reminds me of when I was a teacher and I used to get deathly ill at the end of every semester. I’d be pushing myself as hard as I could, and as soon as my body could take a…
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On Job Searching
As I write this, this is my first day of being unemployed since 2014, where I took two weeks off between teaching and coaching to watch the beginning of the World Cup. (1) I’m in a similar stint now–yesterday was my last day at Teach For America (TFA), and in late April I’ll start work…
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What I’m Looking Forward to This Week
My wife getting home after a long weekend out of town Working on a project with friends going to Ohio over the weekend to see friends Demolishing Caelid in Elden Ring after getting my ass kicked there when I was probably pretty under-leveled for the region starting Gary Shteyngart’s newish book Coaching Watching more NCAA…
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So what’s it been like taking a week off to play a video game?
Let’s not bury the lede—it’s been great! A few things I’ve learned: At my age, I can really only play about 4 hours of video games a day. Something happens after that—my eyes get tired, I get kind of bored of sitting down, and I just don’t enjoy playing anymore. Playing after that is like…
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On Playing Video Games
On the eve of me taking a week off of work to (mostly) play a video game, and because a friend recently asked me about it, I’ve been wondering the following: What would I say to a younger me about video games? I think it also begs a couple of other questions: What do I…
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What I’m Looking Forward to This Week
3 day work week! I have today off for President’s day, and starting on Friday I have a week of vacation! Hopefully sleeping better. I feel much more well-rested today than I did last week. Listening to the new Spoon and Hurray for the Riff Raff records Going to try going on a run Saturday,…
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When Life Happens (Life is Always Happening)
I had big plans to do a bunch of writing this week! And other things—I had been doing so well at working out, meditating, reading—and all of it went to shit this week. We have a puppy, Rosie, and she is the sweetest thing in the world but also she got sick this week. So…
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What I’m Looking Forward to This Week
Well, the first thing I noticed this morning is that I don’t have a very heavily scheduled week, so I guess I’m looking forward to seeing what emerges, and to having space for that. Still…this list feels a little light and it has me wondering if I need to manufacture more things to look forward…
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Friday Wrap-up
I don’t know if it’s because it’s already been an awesome year for music, or because I’m consciously seeking it out, but I’m starting to enjoy the release of new music like I used to. Today I’m excited to hear Spoon’s Lucifer on the Sofa (listening to it as I type these words), and Big…
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Learning From Failure
I’m currently closing out a project at work that…well, no other way to say that than it didn’t work. It wasn’t a disaster or a complete failure, but I think the most judicious way to talk about it is that it didn’t achieve its potential. I’m not going to diagnose the why of that here,…
The Minimum Blues 