Ah, Halloween. I’m too old to trick or treat, getting to old to just go out and drink (plus I had an after-work get-together last night with a bunch of coworkers where we did just that, anyway), and yet still too young to do nothing and just hand out candy all night. I [...]

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There are 23 partners, 35 associates, and 3 patent agents working at my firm. All college graduates, all went to law school, many went on to receive Ph.D’s and even MD’s, so needless to say there are some pretty smart people employed here. And yet, when it comes to turning on a phone [...]

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After shivering in my bed Saturday morning before I got up, and then staying bundled up all morning because my apartment felt like it was about 50 degrees (and yet, still warmer than my Mom used to keep her house), I was astounded that it reached 75 degrees in Portland that day. I waited [...]

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This has been the slowest day here that I can remember in the 7+ months I’ve been here. Between lunch and now, I think the phone has rung twice, both of which were problems that were solved immediately. For about two hours, Marc and I sat here in silence (relative silence, my music [...]

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The air is changing. I can feel it every time I step outside. It’s not the coolness around me, it’s not the wet pavement. It’s something else. Is it just because it’s fall? Perhaps. This time of year is always very strange for me, as much as I love [...]

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I went for a run anyway. It felt good, just like I thought it would. It was the weirdest damn run, though. Sweat has this tendency to make things stick to you, whether it’s clothing or the bugs that you run into, and tonight I kept accumulating bugs on my shirt and [...]

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This last hour or so of the day usually goes pretty slowly, as there isn’t much for me to do and I’m in here by myself. Don’t get me wrong–I’ve already written about how I enjoy some time to myself, but from time to time the day just drags on and on until quitting [...]

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Friday night when I got back from an evening out, I was sitting in front of my computer listening to music when an album started playing that I haven’t heard in, what? Maybe five years? There are a couple of reasons why I don’t listen to “Revenge Poems” by Carmina Pirhana very often, [...]

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This last hour at work when I’m by myself is a nice break from the rest of the day when I have stuff to do bombarding me from every direction, and I can sit back, laregly relax, and just generally be available if people need me. On the whole, however, the last 60 minutes [...]

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As a man of (relatively) sound mind and (decreasingly) sound body, let me be the first to proclaim that running a half-marathon whilst hungover is an inauspicious start to a day. That first mile or so was pretty grueling, but once I got past it I did pretty well. When I reached the [...]

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