Happy Saturday, everyone. Today is the second-to-last day of me vaping, I’m on my last pod so everything should work out perfectly. Starting with the next work week, I will be nicotine free forever! Scout’s honor. Also, it’s Fourth of July week, queue the Sufjan. I think I’ll head home for a bit sometime this…

Today was the day. I felt restless around lunchtime and trekked out to the jewelry shop where I had first purchased the ring. Even though the return policy of “exchange good for 7 days, refund good for 30” was written in bold ink on the back of the receipt, I figured it was worth a…

Small life update: I fucked up at work and was very scared I was going to lose my job. Fortunately, that is not the case and I’m just on probation for the remainder of my time in my position. That’s stressful in its own way, but compared to the alternative, you’ve got to be happy…

A couple friends and I went to a speakeasy type thing on Saturday and on the way back, we got to talking about music. I love music, as cliché as that is, it might be my singular favorite experience on the planet. I’d like to believe that’s universal, I mean if you think about it,…

I’ll preface this whole thing by saying “No, I’m not suicidal, this is just an exercise. I’m firmly happy in my existence and would prefer to stay this way for the foreseeable future.” I’ve always had a kind of curiosity around suicide notes. Specifically, the words and thoughts people choose to be their last. What…

Sorry I haven’t written in a while- I’ve been busy picking at scabs, as it were. A small life update to begin: I am no longer anxious inside the gym and am getting pretty decent results from the usual routines. I never thought I’d be that guy, but I sort of understand the obsession with…

Philosophy is my academic background, if you didn’t know. I took classes on political theory, logic, phenomenology, existentialism, metaphysics, ethics, language, all that. My alma mater leans quite heavily into aesthetics, meaning a lot of the professors’ academic focuses were on things like beauty or color. I took only one of these, a class called…

A breakup is fundamentally a period of intense withdrawals, a topic I’m quite familiar with. See, there are two ways to handle withdrawals, you can either ween yourself off or go cold turkey. Depending on your personality (I’m speaking strictly of nicotine withdrawals here), either strategy can work. Personally, I’m a cold turkey guy- I…

I’ve realized that a lot of my posts are very, umm, self-critical/self-important. I think that’s due to A) my personality but also B) the time at which I write, which is at night around like 11:00 p.m. I’m not the most positive person when the sun is gone. So, I figured I’d hop on this…

“Man plans, and God laughs.” In my particular case, most suffering comes from expectation. Having them for yourself, others having them for you, measuring up to them, others not measuring up to them, you know, all that. If I really deeply analyze the times I’m most upset or the things that make me angriest, it’s…