I was in a conversation with a couple of people where none of us knew each other especially well but we were all acquaintances. We were trying to figure out what kind of music everyone probably liked just by the information we had about each other at the time…
Tag: high school
How I know that communism can’t work
“Warm showers for everyone,” I exclaimed the other day! It had been a few weeks since I could enjoy hot water in the shower before my morning commute. See, the people who run my building had just put in a new water heater but there was a problem with it. It couldn’t generate enough hot… Continue reading How I know that communism can’t work
Commitment
I spend a lot of time trying to be funny for strangers. It’s an addiction. However, I still have more fun in small groups of people, the way most people enjoy themselves. Though a truth about comedy is that just because someone makes their friends laugh, doesn’t mean they’re funny to the outside world. People… Continue reading Commitment
Monthly Mottos: September
while January is the month when 95% of new year’s resolutions are given up on, September is the beginning of much more important things. My new motto for September is…
Measuring up the situation
In high school, I ran for the track and field team. I ran pretty much every event: the 100-yard, 200-yard, 400-yard, and 1 mile events regularly and somewhat less regularly ran the 300-yard hurdles and the 2-mile. I could sprint and run long distance; a weird combination that once saw me run in the 1-mile… Continue reading Measuring up the situation