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Category: thoughts

twitter, and why I’m still single

Since posting an imaginary conversation explaining twitter just over 13 months ago, I have had countless real conversations (with real, tangible people) about the web phenomenon. The number of users has increased, and an unwritten and highly debatable code of ethics has emerged among said users. The way people answer the following questions point to [...]

what. a. whirlwind!

Yesterday I showed up to work at my college bookstore job for the first time since the previous Thursday. Hours are harder to come by on this, the fourth week of class, than they were at the semester’s inception, since all most students have their books at this point. The day was void of much [...]

my journey with weddings

I don’t think I’d be exaggerating in saying I’ve been to over 100 weddings in my 26 years of life, and that a great portion of those have been in the last 18 months. I’ve been an usher plenty of times, a groomsman nearly just as many, a photographer for a handful, and an attender [...]

bittersweet: part two

At what point did Dallas become a place that I would find hard to leave? I can distinctly remember driving Skylar behind a moving truck that Mikey and I were sharing when we first moved to Dallas back in 2006. I looked at the skyline and how relatively close our apartment was to it, and [...]

bittersweet: part one

Reality is starting to set in: my days in Texas are numbered. Four days after I turned in my two weeks’ notice I was notified that business etiquette has effectively gone by the wayside. Upon becoming unemployed I came into some unforeseen free time that has clearly been spent in places other than odfm. I [...]