Nursing Buddha

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embedded by Embedded VideoYouTube DirektVan Damme Loves Chromeo I found this on dooce.com. I’ve watch it ten times and I still can’t believe it’s real. Whatever happened to Jean Claude? Remember when women found him attractive? Oh, eighties, you have a lot of explaining to do for yourself.

Dear coffee, I love you so much. If you ever leave me, I will come to your house and stand in the yard and hold a boombox over my head for you. I like your murky depth, your pungent aroma. I like your warm press against my palm, a cup of you in my hand [...]

Salt water is a tonic. When you are troubled, just march yourself into the ocean, turn onto your back, and let go. Pour your worries into the water, the great expanse can handle it. Floating and fully suspended by the ocean, I’m deep pondering. The water works magic, finding thoughts cast-out and drifting, cleaved and [...]

In a clear indication of the fact that I am getting old, I’ve found myself naturally waking and rising early and early, often beating the alarm clock by better than an hour. My mornings have a more pleasant pace. I actually get to see morning, instead of just the blur between bed and work. This [...]

Let’s say you didn’t feel quite right. Maybe from skipping breakfast and lunch, or not drinking enough water, or snacking on too much fruit to make sense. Say you’re feeling a little pouty and suffering a heady case of food entitlement at supper time. Well then yes, yes I say it would make sense to [...]

Sunday is overcast and hot. Sunday is not beach day. Sunday is chore day. Cry for me Argentina. I dream about a house made of spotless, well-appointed horizontal spaces. Magazines and television shows about the home taunt me with this vision. On teevee and stretched across glossy paper, the home is beautiful and clean, well-lit [...]

The beach at breakfast. As it should be, almost 100% human-free. I have no idea why it took me so long to get a new phone. I love technology but also hate how quickly it changes, so part of the slowness was about wanting an upgrade in phone capabilities but not wanting something so sexy [...]

Here’s a picture of my dead phone. My phone’s been dying for awhile now, but this morning I completely killed it. Several months ago, I dropped the phone on concrete and it split in half without separating completely, the connective wires intact between halves. I popped the two pieces back together like a dislocated shoulder. [...]

So I found a web site with pages and pages of questions teachers can use in English as a second language classes to help students practice conversation. So what could be done except use them as my introduction to audio editing and learning to share a microphone with The Man. SPOILER: Neither goal was accomplished [...]

 

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