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Soft Spirals: January 2011
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Monday, January 31, 2011. The Card Shop (Pt. 1). I remember all of this through a child's view, when adults tower and have a default position of respect. Rebellion hadn't crossed my mind yet. But I did enjoy a chance to beat an adult opponent at the shop, especially because of their reaction to losing a game to some kid. I remember, probably selectively, defeating many adults. Friday, January 28, 2011. In The Irrational Man. Monday, January 24, 2011. I played Dungeons and Dragons for the first time. ...
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Soft Spirals: SK8
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Friday, April 8, 2011. This video's five years old now, but I thought of it as I washed the dishes the other day and Sigh Your Children came on my ipod. I'm still impressed by the level of rollerblading my French friends had/have. I'm also still embarrassed by how poorly I represent skateboarding, as most of my stuff is me falling and then smiling at the camera. Good memories. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Bandai SH Figuarts Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Raphael. What's the Real Problem?
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Soft Spirals: Sons of Lapetus
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Monday, April 25, 2011. Part one of the Atlas Shrugged film trilogy came out recently. Critically, it failed. But I bet it got some Tea Party people fired up. When Alix and I first started dating, she suggested I read The Fountainhead. And told me that I reminded her of Howard Roark, the protagonist. It was flattering. But for many years after that I would point out the comparison whenever someone mentioned the book, and sometimes even when they didn't. I'm glad I stopped doing that. A Glimmer of Hope.
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Soft Spirals: March 2011
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Saturday, March 26, 2011. Nine Years of Love, Today. Monday, March 21, 2011. Here's a list that Gatsby made as a boy, and which his father shows Nick, our narrator, in the final chapter of The Great Gatsby. Rise from bed . 6.00 am. Dumbbell exercise and wall-scaling . 6.15- 6.30 ". Study electricity, etc. . 7.15- 8.15 ". Work 8.30- 4.30 pm. Baseball and sports . 4.30- 5.00 ". Practice elocution, poise and how to attain it . 5.00- 6.00 ". Study needed inventions . 7.00- 9.00 ". No more smokeing or chewing.
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Soft Spirals: February 2011
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Monday, February 28, 2011. Yesterday I tried tricking. I met up with two friends at a gymnastics facility where they both work, and I'm glad we had mats to practice on because it's been a while since I've done any flips. After a couple of tumbles I got reacquainted with my old tricks. Now I'm looking to learn some new ones, so next time I'll start to try the corkscrew. Friday, February 25, 2011. The classes were part of the instructor program I did at my kung fu school. I didn't get paid, since the h...
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Soft Spirals: Only the Strong
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Friday, March 18, 2011. Just like guns, capoeira can be a force for good or evil. Unlike guns, however, gang violence dealt in capoeira doesn't kill innocent bystanders. No drive-by cabecadas. If anything, it makes the onlookers cheer and applaud. Too bad all gangs can't settle things in a capoeira jogo. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Nine Years of Love, Today. Reading Lolita in Tehran. Strange Fits of Passion. Bandai SH Figuarts Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Raphael. What's the Real Problem?
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Soft Spirals: August 2012
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Tuesday, August 14, 2012. I'm back in my classroom, sorting through last year's work and planning for this year. One of the notebooks had the following writing I'd done with my students in Poetry and Fiction:. Around 2008 three Frenchmen tell me to get out of the country. I need a dictionary to figure out what they said. Around 2003 I use a silver, putty knife to scrape fossilized gum off the bottom of every desk, chair, and table in a high school. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). What's the Real Problem?
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Soft Spirals: October 2010
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Thursday, October 14, 2010. 5:45 – Wake up. 6:00 – Swimming class (feat. Alix). 7:15 – Breakfast (apple pie, hashbrowns, scrambled eggs, English cheddar, coffee, chocolate milk) and TV (Daily Show, How I Met Your Mother). 9:00 – Accompany Alix en route to school. 9:15 – Write in journal. 9:45 – Read a chapter of Sophie’s World in bathroom. 10:00 – Finalize and print documents for graduate school application. 12:00 – Yoga (feat. Rodney Yee). 1:30 – Tidy up apartment. 2:45 – Drive to work. A Glimmer of Hope.
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Soft Spirals: July 2010
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Wednesday, July 28, 2010. Two weekends ago, I took the Massachusetts Test for Educator Licensure (MTEL). It took eight hours: half for the Communication and Literacy Skills portion, and half for the English test. Living in Virginia helped prepare me for the test, since Lynn, MA, like most of New England at the time, had a bit of a heatwave. No air-conditioning in an old high school was no problem. The pursuit of precise terms that capture specific ideas reminds me of the scientific pursuit of matter's fu...
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Soft Spirals: Jimmy Gatz
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Monday, March 21, 2011. Here's a list that Gatsby made as a boy, and which his father shows Nick, our narrator, in the final chapter of The Great Gatsby. Rise from bed . 6.00 am. Dumbbell exercise and wall-scaling . 6.15- 6.30 ". Study electricity, etc. . 7.15- 8.15 ". Work 8.30- 4.30 pm. Baseball and sports . 4.30- 5.00 ". Practice elocution, poise and how to attain it . 5.00- 6.00 ". Study needed inventions . 7.00- 9.00 ". No wasting time at Shafters or [a name, indecipherable]. Bath every other day.
