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Nov 09
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What happens when busyness and sociability leave no room for solitude? The ability to engage in introspection, I put it to my students that day, is the essential precondition for living an intellectual life, and the essential precondition for introspection is solitude.

From “The Disadvantages of an Elite Education” by William Deresiewicz

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I’m sorry.

Oct 16
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Things I Love Thursday Eating vanilla ice cream (from the tub) with a KitKat. Afternoons with the boy. Wearing pajamas the whole day. Cute guys with glasses. A plus if they’re buffed-up. Finding people of the same wavelength as you. If you know what I mean. Taking the train during non-rush-hours. Long conversations on existence. Virtual high-fives. The Smart Gilas team; and having one of the players as a classmate, and receiving hi’s from that classmate. Impromptu two-bottle sessions with random friends. Cambria.

Things I Love Thursday

  • Eating vanilla ice cream (from the tub) with a KitKat.
  • Afternoons with the boy.
  • Wearing pajamas the whole day.
  • Cute guys with glasses. A plus if they’re buffed-up.
  • Finding people of the same wavelength as you. If you know what I mean.
  • Taking the train during non-rush-hours.
  • Long conversations on existence.
  • Virtual high-fives.
  • The Smart Gilas team; and having one of the players as a classmate, and receiving hi’s from that classmate.
  • Impromptu two-bottle sessions with random friends.
  • Cambria.
Oct 14
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Oct 13
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Inside It All Feels the Same - Explosions in the Sky

Tonight’s melancholy is attributed to this.

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Oct 12
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Re: Change

Part of this familiar absurdity

Part of this familiar fortuity

Oct 11
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Fortunately, the alternative to optimism is not pessimism, which can be equally delusional. What we need here is some realism, or the simple admission that, to paraphrase a bumper sticker, "stuff happens," including sometimes very, very bad stuff. We don't have to dwell incessantly on the worst case scenarios — the metastasis, the market crash or global pandemic — but we do need to acknowledge that they could happen, and prepare in the best way we can. Some will call this "negative thinking," but the technical term is sobriety.

from Overrated Optimism: The Peril of Positive Thinking by Barbara Ehrenreich

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What do you see?

What do you see?

Oct 10
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Bored?

Rules: 
* Grab the book nearest you. Right now. 
* Turn to page 56. 
* Find the fifth sentence. 
* Post that sentence along with these instructions in a note to your wall.
* Don’t dig for your favorite book, the coolest, the most intellectual. Use the CLOSEST. 

Bawal ang madaya.

DO NOT dig for your favorite book, the coolest, the most intellectual.




“She is only making games with you,” I told him when she put her body on top of his and kicked him with her back legs.

- Everything Is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer