Spent a 4-day weekend at Zach’s vacation house. Best food and rest I’ve had in a long time. The house was in the woods, at the foot of the Berkshires, on the border of Western Massachusetts and upstate New York. Brought In Patagonia and The Rest is Noise to read. Didn’t get far into either. (More…)
Three years ago, after going on a run with a friend, I said to him, “we are going to run the Boston marathon.” It was a moment of triumphant and wildly inaccurate self-appraisal. What I should have said, of course, was “we are going to squander many months of our youth playing video games and (More…)
There are two computers in the microscope room at my lab. One is for operating the microscope; the other is for chatting with friends. Which makes me wonder why it is such a fancy, obviously expensive piece of equipment. Maybe it’s so I can open more gchat windows and tabs on Firefox. Cutting edge delinquency (More…)
There was a time when life was simple, and the only cause for malnourishment was the annoyingly early closing time of Swiss grocery stores. This year, without the excitement of a European summer to motivate me, I’m sliding down a slippery slope of apathy. Going to work, brushing my teeth, eating food — anything is (More…)
Junior year is over. I packed my things between midnight and 5am, sat on my bed, and thought. I asked questions. Why didn’t I start packing earlier? Are those birds chirping outside? What the hell am I doing? Who am I? Who are you? And why did you eat all the pizza in the fridge? (More…)