complich8′s journal

Will I live long enough to write a memoir? And if I do, will I have had a memorable enough life to write about?

just a random thing I was thinking about just now. Even though I’ve got a car I’m pretty happy with, that’s about 2 and a half years old with slightly more than 20,000 miles on it, every couple of months I find myself reading usnews car reviews for cars I could potentially buy, if I [...]

I’ve found that I still have a lot of vivid snapshot memories from my childhood. Lots of stuff I hadn’t thought about in a very long time is still there, still swimming around in my head. Fragments of events long gone, lessons in impermanence, lessons in perspective, lessons in folly and wonder and futility and [...]

I think that everyone has something they can’t get enough of, to whatever end that leads. For some of us, that’s destructive impulses like alcohol or binge eating. For others it’s less destructive stuff like entertainment, or even potentially constructive stuff like exercise. My theory, though, is that everyone has something they’re like that with. [...]

I’ve been contracting for basically the last year or so. Before that, I was in class working towards graduation, and then working towards getting a job that pays well enough to pay back the student loans and … err … eat. It’s interesting though. Now that I’m a full-time employee with a permanent position, I’ve [...]