6/1
started new job. interns make me feel old. epidemiologists make me feel dumb. bobby mcferrin makes everything better.
read through roosevelt’s citizenship in a republic.
the men who wander all their lives long through the wilderness as the heralds and harbingers of an oncoming civilization, themselves vanish before the civilization for which they have prepared the way.
the poorest way to face life is to face it with a sneer.
the credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood
shame on the man of cultivated taste who permits refinement to develop into fastidiousness that unfits him for doing the rough work of a workaday world.
6/2
silly day. plan to open a school of miseducation:
geography: the sewage canal is the artificial waterway between seas mediterranean and red
history: germany built berlin wall to compete with china
mathematics: a random variable is someone with multiple personalities
biology: varicose means close by
philosophy: playdoh’s allegory of the cave > myth of syphilis, socrates died of wedlock poisoning
economics: beer a mandatory deduction from gross pay, tax a voluntary one
tried my hand at heiroglyphics.
the good people at scholastic catered to my reading level.
many liberties taken:
6/3 – 6/4
asked if explosive success of coding bootcamps contributes to starting salary stagnation. answer: maybe but as long as the best still paid the most, hakuna matata.
mixed vodka with mangos, an absolut maaza. adai’s north indian equivalent chila but neither one a dosa. agreed google assistant > siri > cortana.
i don’t care for cicadas.
i’ll mention that in your eulogy.
why am I dying first?
banished bad news bears with delfina.
she said she’s not having guests until labor day.
i’m her sister.
let your friend’s partners know you carry around a bat for good measure.
pull up mad max style
6/5 – 6/8
encountered great SEO.
and even greater works of fiction.
played phone tag with amy. neither of us knows when to shut up. as it should be.
6/8
recognized madeleine peyroux singing in the shape of water. are togas just low quality kurtas? the polish spell vodka wodka.
read a short essay on advances in archaeology: against the portrayal of pre-1492 america as an untouched paradise..substantial evidence of indigenous landscape modification to argue that the human presence was perhaps more visible in 1492 than 1750
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