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Photos of Ben and Me

Posted on: 26 September 2022 /

Categories: Personal History, Self

The day after I published that last post (Tentative Love-Letter to a Relationship Now Concluded), I heard from Ben via email. I had half-forgotten he had email; my defenses weren’t impenetrable after all. He said he was good with me posting photos. Getting his polite, two-sentence email sent me straight into an emotional black hole,

Tentative Love-Letter to a Relationship Now Concluded

Posted on: 16 September 2022 /

Categories: Personal History, Self

I met Ben in January 2021. He’s the first person with whom I ever fell in love. We broke up about a month ago (August 2022). Since then, my feelings have consisted of a lot of sadness, loneliness, anger, frustration, and intense jealousy, even though none of these are rational or constructive. This blog post

And, Suddenly, My Life Made a Lot More Sense

Posted on: 1 June 2021 /

Categories: Personal History, Self, Self Promotion

I need to be my actual self from now on. I’ve gotten whatever it was I was going to get from not doing that. When I was living in Oklahoma, I was so depressed I was worried I was just going to not wake up one day. That was the main factor that drove my

A Eulogy for My Membership in the Mormon Church

Posted on: 13 May 2021 /

Categories: Personal History, Religion

The LDS church is no longer part of my life. It seems like a good time to compile the good parts and put that chapter to bed. I’ve been mostly Mormon for my whole life up until semi-recently (2020), where by “mostly Mormon”, I mean… I dunno. I usually (not always) went to church, only

The Specific Ways that Recovering from an Adult Tonsillectomy Is Miserable

Posted on: 20 February 2021 /

Categories: Personal History, Self

I wrote this on Day 9 after the surgery. Pre-surgery, I was trying to find info on what the experience was like. Everyone said it was miserable, but couldn’t explain anything beyond that. So, yeah. Read this, and then you’ll know. The first couple of nights, there was phlegm or something in the back of

The Beard at Max Power

Posted on: 9 September 2018 /

Categories: Personal History, Self

This is how far it got. It looks like a professional head shot because it is (I needed one for the school website). Was taken in March I’m not sure there’s much else to say about it. It got trimmed several times before March, but I guess that’d be about a year of growing to

Revisiting Places Where I Used to Live: Twin Falls

Posted on: 16 December 2017 /

Categories: Personal History, Self

Driving up to Boise to see the Modest Mouse concert in September gave me keen opportunity to drive through Twin Falls, a place where I used to live. Hence the post title. I also drove through Rupert, where I lived for like a week before moving to Twin (as the locals call it). In Rupert,

Living in Norman, Okla.: A Review

Posted on: 15 May 2017 /

Categories: Personal History, Self

About a year ago, I had a random Mormon guy I’d never met before ask me via email about what it was like living in Norman, as he was considering a job at OU. With a few edits, this was my response. Let it serve as a warning to you all. OU OU is what I’d call a

The Beard at Six Months

Posted on: 18 April 2017 /

Categories: Personal History, Self

When I interviewed at Utah State back in October, it seemed like things had gone pretty well, and I was kind of confident I’d get a job offer. So I figured I could be done interviewing and, relatedly, done having to shave. This launched me on a magical journey in which I continued to not shave (or

The Most Dangerous Thing I’ve Ever Done

Posted on: 1 December 2015 /

Categories: Hawaii, Personal History, Travel

Am heading back to Kauai for New Year’s this year. Was thinking about going on another ultralight flight like I did in ’08. This is the guy I took the lesson from: (source: http://beatofhawaii.com/crash-on-kauai-how-safe-are-ultralights/) And then the company he worked for back when I took the lesson is also now out of business because the owner

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