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Archive for January, 2008

Exhaustion vs. Age
Friday, January 25th, 2008

I am not sleeping. Therefore, I am not dreaming. And lacking both, I am justifiably cranky and otherwise unconcerned about most things. For the most part, I’ve hit the wall of exhaustion where I feel like I’m unconscious with my eyes open. I can’t even read my trashy fiction because my head and mind are [...]

Living in a Digital Lark’s World
Sunday, January 20th, 2008

My digital life is on hiatus. Something happened in a previous life that resulted in an electronic glitch between the cells of my DNA and the bytes of some omnipotent CPU. Thus, my digital life is in shambles, and I’m two steps shy of going totally analogue.
This is not a new situation, really. My [...]

Rain
Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

The rain has come again, like it does every year. Little by little it soaks into my skin, and I start to feel like I can’t stay afloat like I did in summer. Then I remember being in Alaska, learning how the Eskimos made waterproof suits out of seal gut, boats out of driftwood and [...]

Coming back
Monday, January 14th, 2008

Recovering from the woes of a technological blip.