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Once More With Feeling
When last we left my ear, the left one that is, the lining of its outer canal and the ear drum had, after a tympanomastoidectomy and against all of the known laws of medicine and biology, turned themselves into mucosa. Odder still, all of the difficulties typical of this sort of surgery were averted. The… — read more
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Stalking Made Easy
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been reorganizing my Internet persona. I now have things organized into three interconnected sites. I have this very site for general writing, including the Pages section, which contains longer, more formal pieces. I have a .mac site for pictures and music (the pictures probably being of much more… — read more
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Macbook Air Revisited
My attempt to install OS X on a Macbook Air over a wireless network was ultimately unsuccessful. Five hours into the process, with roughly 2 GB transferred and the install process still less than half done, my desktop computer dropped its wireless connection. The desktop had dropped its connection a few times yesterday while I… — read more
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What I Did on My Summer Vacation
As I mentioned in passing, last summer was a summer of surgery. In June, I had hernia repair surgery that went as planned. The recovery took longer than I expected, given that it was ambulatory surgery, but actually took no longer than I should have expected, given that they cut a several inch slit in… — read more
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Macbook Air
Today I received my new Macbook Air. I pondered for a few weeks before getting it. My mind was finally made up by the fact that my brother-in-law could use my current Macbook, so I decided to upgrade. For day-to-day use, it offers everything I need and nothing I don’t, making it 40% lighter than… — read more
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Reading John Ashbery
I’ve read James Joyce’s Ulysses three times, and after the third reading, I was even able to offer independently formed (if perhaps not original) ideas and opinions about it. I write this not to brag (there are, after all, those who have been able to offer independently formed and startlingly original ideas and opinions about… — read more
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They Did It Again
The Interdependence Project has posted the second issue of their dharma arts magazine, Sentient City, and once again they’ve published one of my essays. This one is called “What Should I Be When I Grow Up?” It’s a consideration of management as a mystical practice, and unlike the previous essay of mine they published, it… — read more
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A Disappointed Sigh in the Dark
Here, in Chapter 10 of Part One of On the Road, is the whole of the novel in half a paragraph: She was a nice little girl, simple and true, and tremendously frightened of sex. I told her it was beautiful. I wanted to prove this to her. She let me prove it, but I… — read more
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This Certifies morgannels Not Insane
Yesterday morning, I had my last therapy session. After seven years, I’ve… graduated? Of all the portrayals and descriptions of therapy that I’ve seen and read–how it starts, how it helps, how it goes wrong, what it’s like–none have addressed how it finishes. When I started the process, younger and more ambitious, I thought I’d… — read more
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Winner by Default
Apple went a little crazy with the iPod announcements today. There’s the iPod touch, for when you want to carry something larger than any previous iPod in order to have 16 gigabytes of media with you or when you find yourself in a wi-fi hotspot without a computer. And there’s the iPod nano, which is… — read more
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