“Change is the only constant,” they say.
On the other hand, they also say, “The more things change, the more they stay the same.”
Whether directly opposed clichéd truisms such as these simply render themselves and each other meaningless is up to debate, I suppose, but they both seem fairly valid to me, in a paradoxical [...]
Last year I picked up some part-time tutoring to make a little extra money. After growing discontented with the company I was working for, I decided to see if I could work independently, freelancing for a few hours a week.
I live near a fairly well-to-do area of LA, so I figured perhaps I could [...]
In keeping with the trend of recent Thursday playlists from Bryan and Rachel, I’ve assembled my year-end mix for your delectation and/or derision. With one or two technical exceptions, all these are songs from 2007.
Download the mix here and now. [Downloading closed.] I feel a little squeamish about filesharing, so I’m going to [...]
Los Angeles is known as a city of millions of cars. Things are just too far apart, and public transportation just too slow and sparse, to make it easy *not* to own one. Houston, apparently, has the most cars per household in the country, but we’ve got the worst traffic-related congestion and pollution. [...]
Jen and I took a little break from the big city and went to Sequoia last week.
We saw pretty trees and bushes . . .
pretty trees and a mountain . . .
trees of enormous size . . .
and beauty.
We hiked.
We stopped and unpacked . . .
to rest.
We packed it all up again . [...]