Given the nature of things in the Year of Our Lard 2025, I’m not offering much by way of personal retrospection on the prior year. It’s been a bit much. So very much. However, this year has me on a massive music acquisition kick. By my count, I’ve picked up 217 albums this year, which …
Author Archives: Shawn
Bestanden
Two-week-old news by now, but I share here. My final grade in Deutsch III is a mid-B, 84.8%. I still feel like Professorin was being too kind to me in her scoring, because I still don’t trust my competence. I feel like I did terribly. Scores aren’t everything. I’m not fluent. Throughout the latter half …
Crossed Eyes See Heaven
Seems I don’t write much these days of intoxication helping me see the mind and love of god. Just feels desperate now. All I want is escape into hope. There has to be something better.
Thumb Taps
Dreamed that the cloud had become sentient and hungry, and was optimizing handhelds to attract and lock people into their gravity. The moment anyone grabs a device, they quickly lose all presence and vitality. It was trapping the teenagers of the camp I was staffing. They become terminals, assets to the cloud in droves. Grabbing …
Capped
Found out today, while scheduling PTO for the holidays, that I am currently at my limit for saving up my Paid Time Off. I’m unable to accrue any more free time-money. 280 hours, max. That’s 7 fucking business-weeks. What even am I doing with my life? In “Star Trek: Insurrection”, Captain Picard mentioned he had …