I am noticing a trend in the way I interact with the world, where I do things that I can't explain and this goes on for a long time before suddenly *BOOM* it all falls together and the only logical explanation for it is that I have known it was coming all along and I just knew to make those good choices when others didn't. I know my conscious mind doesn't know it beforehand, but maybe it's the power of blink? Thank goodness Malcolm Gladwell exists so that I can at least try to make sense of my most inscrutable qualities.

I don't really care too much right now about how this is happening; I'm just trying to ride it out and see what's at the end of this path I've taken. Every day this week, I have managed to do a lot of the exact right thing when I wasn't trying to - some of the time I even thought for sure it would be the exact wrong thing but I did it anyway and was rewarded for it. Despite how peculiar this all is, I have a good feeling about how things will turn out....

This weekend I:

*had a visitor from my old school in nyc and she brought me a slice of cheesecake from Junior's and orgasmic red velvet cupcakes. (the best kind of cake. ever.)

*took her on our geography club field trip through dupont circle, embassy row and georgetown. we walked for hours and learned a lot about the history of one of the first towns that existed before the district was created (g-town), and bonded nicely with the handful of other geog people over a mediterranean dinner.

*woke early the following morning to take my friend running on one of my favorite sections of the c&o canal towpath. it was painfully cold the first five minutes, but the rest of the 45 minutes we ran it was just lovely and sunny. she said it only took a few minutes of that peaceful run in that gorgeous setting to finally understand what i've been blathering on about to all my nyc friends whenever they ask if i think i'll come back and i am so sure that...

I call my mom to check in and say, "I'm eating food right now," and she says, "Of course you're eating food, what else would you be eating?"

Heh.

I was kind of sad to see that the thread had already been created here and that it was not full of positive things like Xepherys' gamesforsoldiers.org thread was. I'm not even sure how I first missed that thread, but I see that Pogue wrote his article on my birthday and I was certainly not reading the paper that day. In any case, I have been really, really excited about this idea since I first watched the TED talks several months ago. I am going to try and continue to be very excited about it here in my blog instead.

One Laptop Per Child

I think the really exciting thing about this for me is that it is simply a great idea that is meeting success and becoming increasingly accessible. Many of my peers are currently struggling with finding meaning in their lives since graduating and joining the world of net producers, and a disproportionate amount of them are putting their blood, sweat and tears into start-ups right now - struggling to get funding for their...

I just had a cubic shit-ton of decade-old drama thrust upon me in the form of an email from a person I had a crush on when I was 16. Needless to say that I don't really consider this person to be... well, I just don't consider him very often at all. Apparently, I have not been as absent in his thoughts? I could write a dissertation on all the fucked up things about that and what went down in the course of four emails exchanged 'tween us, but I will let sleeping dogs lie. It just... put me in a funny mood I guess.

What I really wanted to blog about is that I am feeling nostalgic for a Christmas vacation that will no longer exist for me, ever. There are many reasons it will never exist. I'm too old to be the baby of the family, there are now actual children around to be babied, my father has taken ill in a way that I believe he can never recover from and all of my family is in denial over this... as I said, there are many reasons. Of greatest concern is the fact that...