42 Dreams of Arizona Bay

I can’t get into details. If my mother had heard of the internet, I could’ve said: Momma said, never put anything on the interwebz you don’t want to be thrown up in your face later.
Let’s just say I’m annoyed with people.
I’m annoyed with know-it-alls who don’t actually contribute anything positive to a discussion, and in [...]

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I’ve been in Sacramento since late May 2009. For quite a while, I felt unconnected and lost. I still look up directions to many places, sometimes even to places I’ve already been.
But it finally is starting to make sense, and it’s starting to feel like home.
When I came here, I had a little bit of [...]

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Halfway through my second quarter of grad school, I feel like an old hand. A tired, old, old hand.
I briefly contemplated the idea of going home between quarters in late March and eventually ruled it out because:

I’m underemployed and therefore broke.
I am so stressed it would be nice to sit on my butt for a [...]

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I was in the middle of editing a PDF slideshow for a school project when it hit me: I will never do this work again. Not exactly, anyway.
Some of my pages were pretty awesome. You don’t keep copies of the humdrum days, of which there were many. But those knockout days made me realize how [...]

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