Monthly archive January, 2008

Myth takes

For several days now I’ve had the same headache; some terrible pounding behind my eyes. I always wake up with it, and though I want to start the day right — breakfast, work, shower, Jeopardy on tv — I find myself staying much longer in bed than usual, holding my head and willing the pain...

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Acute angles divide my path that I had lost

Damn, that’s what I get for editing the code! Originally I had written a long post with pictures and descriptions, but here’s the short version, as I seem to have mucked the post up: Things that happened in 2007: Lived in Paris Watched Explosions in the Sky and Clap your Hands Say Yeah Moved to...

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Damn the spam

Last week it rained for almost a week here in Qatar. Drivers, confused, got into accidents (“Why is water falling from the sky? How strange. I shall drive faster than usual!”), the endless Doha construction didn’t help either (“I am a pothole and covered in water, therefore I am invisible to man and their cars,...

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Imbalance

For Christmas, I got Julien a bag and Guy Delisle’s graphic novel Pyongyang. The bag was supposed to be on sale, and I was fairly disappointed when the sales lady informed me that the sale was over. Walking to the counter, I passed a stack of leather-bound notebooks, paused, then put one in my cart....

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