Remember how you used to tell me how riding your bike was your favorite way to clear your head?
“Yeah.”
Well, I tried that a bunch of times, these last couple months. It never works.
“What do mean?”
Makes it worse. Think more. End up thinking so much, sometimes I argue with myself on the ride. Me, the crazy [...]
A year ago, deeply unsettled by both my personal and professional lives, I promised myself I’d buy a new camera if I got the job at the Field Museum.
A year ago, I accepted their offer.
A year ago, I put buying the camera off until I felt more settled in my situation(s).
A year [...]
On the occasion of my first anniversary of working at the Field Museum, a playlist of songs. Fair warning, though: I make no claims to elevated taste or standards. What I listen to at work is mostly intended to help me concentrate by shutting out the world while keeping me from really noticing the [...]
With confidence this time I tell her, and her assent—a nod, a smile, her hands squeezing mine—warms me, even on this cold, windy, late night.
Such are my pleasures these days: Miso udon soup, Green Day’s Dookie played over noise-cancelling headphones, an unannounced, open-ended project, new people to impress, finally deciding to do what I’ve been waiting all year to try.
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