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Something like optimism: ON STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009. ON STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES. I've been thinking a lot about group formation lately. Two aspects of my life come to mind - work and improv. And I am Bowser. I will show you my back spikes If I must. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The Chuck and Brad Podcast. A Year of Living Together. J Bailey Occasions Blog. View my complete profile.
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Something like optimism: ON HALLOWEEN (AGAIN)
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Friday, October 30, 2009. I used to love Halloween, with the exception of the time I wrote about last year. Getting older, however, has sucked much of the fun out of it for me. SPOOKY STUFF - I've never been a spooky kind of guy. As a kid, I was absolutely TERRIFIED of "Large Marge" in the movie Pee-Wee's Big Adventure. So I never graduated to the Friday the 13ths. The Nightmare on Elm Streets. Or the, uh, Halloweens. I can handle It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. Halloween, after all.
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Something like optimism: ON POSITIVE FEEDBACK
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Thursday, October 22, 2009. Just rolling around in "likes." All this, and only FOUR people actually liked it. The feedback meant that much to me. (My other analogy was comparing myself to a puppy having its belly rubbed. For some reason, the Demi Moore one just seems more appropriate). And feedback from my best man speeches - to have a stranger come up to me and say how much they enjoyed it - that meant a LOT to me. (I expected my friends to laugh. They are comfortable with my sense of humor, and...
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Something like optimism: ON HONESTY
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009. I had a topic I was going to write about today ("On Making Moves,") but chickened out, as I know family members read this occasionally. I guess I live in a world where I don't want my mom reading how the new Weezer single impacts my move-making strategy. My character has a few off-color lines. I don't want my family seeing that, either. Is supposed to be (During any of our "Naughty Bits" shows, I was just as R-Rated as anyone, if not more so). Speaking of performing, I was ...
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Something like optimism: ON MUSIC AND MEMORIES
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009. ON MUSIC AND MEMORIES. To this day, I hear that song and can't help but think of Frodo and his friends - this was before the movies, so I call on my own image of what the characters looked like. (Truthfully, they look a little more cartoony in my mind.). It doesn't end with music and fictional characters, though. Whenever I hear the Bush song " Glycerine. It makes perfect sense that that particular song would evoke memories of that specific person. Subscribe to: Post Comments...
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Something like optimism: On Christmas Miracles
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Monday, December 21, 2009. For the last four years, I've written a Christmas story in lieu of sending out Christmas cards. Below, please find this year's story. 8220;I think the right way to start one of these is by talking about the first time she and I met. Okay, here goes: ‘I remember the first time I met Nicole.’ Truthfully, I don’t know that it was the actual first time we met, or the first time we spoke, but for the purposes of this, it will be. 8220;When I said that - honestly, it was like watchin...
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Something like optimism: ON TENURE
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Friday, October 23, 2009. Today is officially my three-year anniversary at work. Why, it seems like just yesterday I spent the morning filling out forms with HR, then half of the afternoon reading the RD manual, then the rest of the day looking up funny videos on Youtube. (If I were a lesser man, I would make a smarmy joke here - something along the lines of "Oh wait - that WAS yesterday! And the laugh track would kick in.) As it turns out, due to union rules, I received tenure today.
