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:: pause ::: Keeping Resolutions
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Wednesday, January 9, 2008. Nine days into 2008 and I'm feeling that What-the-hell-was-I-thinking? Thud in the back of my head. Somewhere between making the list of uber-ambitious goals for the new year and taking baby steps to begin accomplishing them I forgot to ask myself what was actually feasible, whether or not I could handle such a hiccup in daily life, and how I would tackle a day like today when the cumulative effects of my baby steps start taking a physical toll. Learn advanced CSS development.
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:: pause ::: March 2008
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Saturday, March 29, 2008. I was psyched today when I noticed that someone turned the lights out at Google: http:/ www.google.com/intl/en/earthhour/. Have you seen this? Earth Day is soon approaching, too, and I can't help but be excited and optimistic about these moments of reflection and realization that as the planet's only species capable of building up cities and mining resources, we can also care for the planet that gives us life. Yes, really, I mean it - who gives a shit whether Global Warming is a...
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:: pause ::: Practicing Imperfection
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Monday, September 1, 2008. For as long as I can remember I've been a perfectionist. My father always reiterated to me that "if something's worth doing, it's worth doing right," words that still echo in my day-to-day life. Perhaps it was my tendency towards compulsive order and obsessive organization, but for some reason I interpreted those words as, "if something's worth doing, it's worth doing the best. I tend to want to control even the little stupid things that don't matter. Has life figured out.
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:: pause ::: November 2008
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Sunday, November 30, 2008. Send My Grandma to Italy. Always the coolest, Gram (second from left) parties with the girls at my sister's Bachelorette party in the spring of 2008. Two months ago, only weeks before my little sister's wedding, my family received some devastating news: my grandma, only 72 years old, had stage 4 cancer of the lung, liver, lymph nodes, and spleen. It was a slow, dreadful diagnosis with each new test revealing worse news. The prescription? I wouldn't let it go, and immediately st...
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:: pause ::: October 2008
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Sunday, October 5, 2008. Where did September go? September whirled by like a tumbleweed in a tornado. I was so busy-busy that I almost didn't notice autumn sneaking up on me. But now fall has finally descended upon the Northeast - the days are crisp and cool, the air smells damp and fresh, and the leaves are slowly making their colorful transition, scattering themselves across the earth, and painting my daily pathways. It's one of those events that you wait for your whole life. Natalie is my only sib...
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:: pause ::: An Event Apart, Boston - Or, fate finds me
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Wednesday, June 25, 2008. An Event Apart, Boston - Or, fate finds me. Last Sunday, Johnny took me down to the Albany train station in the early afternoon for my evening commute to downtown Boston. This trip somehow get wedged into my brain back in January, and wouldn't let go. I was browsing online, like I always do, reading about Web standards and code, when I discovered a conference called An Event Apart. Everyone that I met was talented and excited; from Kelley. Co-founder of the Web Standards Project.
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:: pause ::: September 2008
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Monday, September 1, 2008. For as long as I can remember I've been a perfectionist. My father always reiterated to me that "if something's worth doing, it's worth doing right," words that still echo in my day-to-day life. Perhaps it was my tendency towards compulsive order and obsessive organization, but for some reason I interpreted those words as, "if something's worth doing, it's worth doing the best. I tend to want to control even the little stupid things that don't matter. Has life figured out.
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:: pause ::: 10,000 Days (and counting)
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Sunday, January 4, 2009. 10,000 Days (and counting). Last week I was doing research on a project for work when I stumbled upon a website (though not a design specimen by any means) that calculates your " Decimal Birthday. Something about that number hit me - that's a lot of days. Often, I still think of myself as young. And being 27 years old, I suppose in the grand scheme of things I absolutely am. How have I spent all of those days? Have I really lived and enjoyed each one? Bloated, tired, and still fe...
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:: pause ::: March 2009
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Thursday, March 26, 2009. Some weight off my shoulders. I've decided to take a pause from : pause: — permanently. My apologies to anyone that may actually be reading my blog. your attention is appreciated, and you are a rare gem in this world. Frankly, I have been too busy enjoying life to stop and write about it, and after 2 months of feeling a nag in the back of my head reminding me that I hadn't blogged in awhile, it occurred to me that, I really don't have. If I don't want to. About The Brave and the...
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:: pause ::: Welcome, Change
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Friday, November 7, 2008. This past month, for me, can be best equated with the Sky Coaster. The ride began last month, when after months and months of feeling the stir of change on the horizon, I found myself at a job interview at Overit Media. On Monday I collapsed. my body wrecked from the change train that just kept going. I took a day to rest and regenerate, but I could feel myself still swinging. The ride wasn't quite over. And then Tuesday came, and in one last wave everything converged like firew...
