Big or just memorable happenings, roughly chronologically:
- Considered moving to NYC. Settled for a 5-day trip.
- Grandma died. I think about her every day.
- Watched, just barely dry-eyed, my sister get married.
- Came close to dying in a wimpy hurricane. My car came closer.
- Tried online dating. “Tried” is the key word, but not “tried” as in took up an interesting side hobby for a couple of months but “tried” as in devoted a ridiculous amount of mindspace to finding a serviceable ladyfriend before deciding / having it decided for me that this was going nowhere.
- Fell in love. His name is Van. He made albums called Veedon Fleece and Astral Weeks.
- Adopted Bethesda Park as my place-du-recreation. (Durham people: Leave it alone. It’s mine.)
- 10 mile hike to an incestuous abandoned cabin in the mountains, including 37 creek crossings, 36 of which I crossed successfully.
- Moderate to knees-weakeningly large crush on a girl I know almost nothing about. Stupid male.
- Started listening to hit music radio. Am trying to figure out how to stop (1, 2).
Nerdy stuff:
- 178,000 words written, or about 970 words per day, 920 of which sucked.
- Used the word “vagina” on this blog at least 8 times.
- 140 hours of exercise, or about 46 minutes per day.
- Used exercise to justify excessive amount of Bojangles consumption.
- Two huge outliers in the movement department: 25,000 steps one day (10 mile hike), and 38,000 steps another (about 17 miles; NYC).
- 4,600 book pages (≈ 20 books) read over a span of 122 hours, or about 25 pages over 40 minutes per day.
- Three books of particular note: David Lipsky’s Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself because it is the highest-rated book in my nerdy spreadsheet, Demetri Martin’s This Is A Book because it is the funniest book/thing I’ve ever consumed, and Rob Dunn’s The Wild Life of Our Bodies because you (yes, you) should read it.
- I think I only saw one movie, and by movie I mean documentary. It was Werner Herzog’s The Cave of Forgotten Dreams, and it was Amazing (capital A deserved). I still want to see The Tree of Life.
- Napped like a mug: 1.3 hours per day in the Summer and 1.75 hours per day in the Fall. (Total amount of sleep has not changed: 7.35 hours per day.)
Shout outs:
- Best dog in the history of spotted furballs, 4.5 years running.
- A pretty sweet house in a pretty sweet city (4.5 years running) in a pretty sweet state (11.5 years running) in a pretty sweet country in a not-very-sweet Universe (26.5 years running).
- An employer that keeps me satisfactorily employed, 4.5 years running.
- Family, friends, co-workers, and neighbors who would have my back if I should ever stop being satisfactorily employed or satisfactorily sane.
- Family, friends, co-workers, and neighbors who are just generally awesome.
Looking forward to:
- Life.
- etc.
