I could’ve been anything, but I didn’t choose anything because I didn’t want to not be anything else. If you haven’t been a Gifted and Talented student, you probably wouldn’t understand. I wanted to be everything. But you know that’s impossible. But if that’s also you, don’t let that stop you. Learn early. Try early. …
Author Archives: Shawn
#Crickets
Tonight, #Mastodon is dead #IRC channels. If you’re in #EFNet, drop into #electronic-mp3 and tell ’em Phrang says Hi.
Routes and Turns
Did some gasoline therapy after dinner. Drove down through the center of town and back up. Still surprises me how much this town has changed. I could bemoan the loss of the town that I loved. But that misses the mark. It’s nostalgia. The pain of knowledge. What I miss is all the opportunities for …
Der Dummkopf – The Fool
This first week of German class has not gone easily. I’ve never done distance learning, so I’m climbing uphill to figure out these learning management systems. The first assignment found me misreading the actual task, and I kept getting the answers wrong; I got distracted with learning the laptop’s Alt-Gr keys (so I can do …
Dunkel
My favorite part of laying down to sleep is between turning the light off and acclimating to the darkness enough to see the masked dots of light from nearby electronics. It’s the only time when I can look wide eyed at nothing.