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📝 Week Notes, No. 2024.7
Weekly Highlights of February 12th - 18th: 🩷 I decided to take advantage of omg.lol’s Valentine’s Day pricing offer and snagged philomath.omg.lol for myself. I’m not entirely sure what I’ll do with it yet, but that’s okay. I did move my Mastodon presence…
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I Am Not a Verb! I Am a Human with a Real Name!
Thanks, Starbucks barista, for verbing me 😑😆
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💭 Thoughts on the Murder of Alexy Navalny
As the world learns of the murder of Alexy Navalny, one of — if not the — most outspoken and active critics of Vladimir Putin, I find myself filled with a multitude of emotions. Anger. Disbelief. Sadness. Frustration. Denial. In 2020, Alexy Navalny was…
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💻 Continued Learning: TEFL/TESOL Certification
Back in 2007, when I was still in college, I had a friend who was an ESL teacher on weekends. I was curious how these classes went, so I asked if I could sit in on one. One turned into two, which then turned into four. And ever since then, I’ve always…
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🛌 The Pros & Cons of Getting Out of Bed
I’ve never related more to a graphic in my life.
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📝 Week Notes, No. 2024.6
Weekly Highlights of February 5th - 11th: 🎳 Week 5 of league bowling! It did not go well. 101, 95, 65. No further notes. Just frustration. 👵🏻 My grandma had a good week overall, with plentiful sleep and few hallucinations. I was in the area to take…
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🖋️ Thoughts On Journaling
There’s something about buying a new journal that makes me feel…hopeful. Maybe it’s the smell of the unused pages that signals a new slate, a new beginning. Perhaps it’s the crack of the spine as the book is opened that makes my brain remember it’s time…
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📚 Book Dreams of the Past
When I was younger -- and much more foolish about how I expected my future to be -- I thought that I'd be fortunate enough (somehow) to be able to collect first editions of my favorite books. I recently rediscovered a list of the books I had planned to…
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📝 Week Notes, No. 2024.5
Weekly Highlights of January 29th - February 4th: 🔎 I decided to give Arc Search a try on my iPhone, despite not using Arc Browser on my MacBook Air. It’s interesting, but without an option to import my bookmarks from Safari, it won’t be my default…
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✏️ Ode to the Bullet Pencil
Ahh, the bullet pencil – that delightful "mini" pencil houses in a casing made from a spent bullet casing. Small. Pocketable. Beautiful. Just so aesthetically pleasing to look at and hold. These stunning analog tools seem to have come about back in the…
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🗂 On Organizational Methods — A Personal Journey
“The system you use to organize information has to be so simple that it frees up your attention, instead of taking more of it. Your system must give you time, not take time.” — Tiago Forte, The PARA Method 💬 I’ve been thinking about this quite a lot over…
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⚽️ Thoughts on Ted Lasso
I understand that I’m woefully late to this party, but I’ve just finished watching the entirety of Ted Lasso on Apple TV+. And, as did so many others, I absolutely loved it. To be honest, I’m a bit made at myself for waiting so long to watch it! But, then…