From whence I came has its own Wikipedia article. Junior year was the best. Ah, the glory days.
Archive for January, 2007
Four Killed in Gruesome Automobile Accident in Freehold, NJ. 3 were Freehold Borough HS students. Here’s Dragonetti’s myspace and Warnock’s myspace.
Update: I’m getting lots of visits from people searching for the decedents’ myspace pages. I’m glad I can help connect people to makeshift virtual memorials. See also, Jack Chen’s passing.
productivity
Each sunrise wipes clean the yesterslate. And each day is a new opportunity to waste away indoors, embraced in sweatpants and fleece, reading Apple news and hockey scores, and not cultivating employment opportunities.
Columbia: kiddy pool to the stars
Lost‘s Matthew Fox learned to swim at Dodge.
“My wife Margherita actually taught me to swim in the pool at (New York’s) Columbia University. It was very embarrassing,” he laughs.
“I was really not comfortable in the water. I remember being in that pool at Columbia with the swim team doing laps… I was pretty pathetic.”
Meteorite crashes through house in Freehold Township, NJ. I’m sure the chunk was lured by the lush foliage, excellent school systems, and the provenance of Springsteen.
listen
Music piracy, apparently, is the bedrock of courtship.
Anyway, here’s some wistful tunes you can abuse: Mates of State – These Days [via a daytrotter session].
well met, 2007
Well, way to make it to the other side.
This year, I probably ought to dress like an adult. Nonwhite socks. Pants that fit. Collared whatnots. Laundering fees. sigh.
I will also quit being a mouth-breather, which, apparently, is “pretty gross”. I shall trade the slack-jawed look of a boy lost to improper respiration for the confident airs of a man filled with… air.
A friend of mine was remarked that most New Year’s resolutions are doomed to fail because the impetus is just some arbitrary completion of solar orbit rather than a bonafide cause of action or rallying point in people’s lives. Well, she didn’t quite say it like that, but that was the crux. Forgive my gussying, crys.
Lack of motivation notwithstanding, resolutions fail for because people actually aren’t willing to sustain it. It’s like building software. Everyone wants to code something but no one worries about cost of maintenance. It’s great you want to learn Chinese, but you are going to have to change your lifestyle or risk forgetting it all. You will have to listen to endless ballads and watch Chinese dramas set in the Qing dynasty. Is that really what you want?
Resolutions also fail because of indefinite terms. How do you know when you can check off “Go to the gym regularly”? Metrics, people. Try “Go to the gym on average of 10 times a month”.
This entry is what happens when powerful minds flail around in languor, on vacation.