I suppose there’s something wonderfully purgative about wiping your hard drive clean and installing a new operating system. It’s a feeling much like purchasing an entirely new computer, but with your current, used machine—you blast away, sometimes indiscriminately, all the cruft and poorly-managed files, the legacy of ad-hoc decisions, ill-advised choices and temporary, extemporized solutions [...]
In some real, noticeable way, I am still not back from Paris. Or maybe the person who came back isn’t the same as the one who left. Something like that.
Everything and everybody is so beautiful here. I don’t want to leave.
Dave Eggers’ A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius was probably the defining literary moment of my college era, and it helped encapsulate for me a certain attitude towards adulthood that I continue to both embrace and struggle with to this day. Its influence on my aesthetic, on the way view my life, on my desires, [...]
Something new today: I enjoyed myself. What a difference that makes.
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