I do think that there are tiny benefits to every little thing. I am still smoking, or rather I am smoking again, and one great advantage of this is that it gets you outside, still, not doing anything of note. Thus, you are for at least a moment paying attention to things. Here are some…

As they only human being of my age and cohort has never seen a singular episode of either the American or British variety, I don’t know any of the injokes, references and memes that come along with that culture. The closest thing I ever had to an office job was back in 2000-2002, and that…

There are few words that wind up for a disappointment quite like “this will only take five minutes”. Whenever I hear the words “this will only take five minutes,” I know that my day has officially been compromised. Nothing ever does, and nothing has ever truly been designed too. People who say shit like that…

Some friends are pretty vividly stuck in your head. You remember all the tiny details. Which is why the change registers. This old friend wore a star of david around her neck when we met. She would later invite me to a concert, which so happened to be in a synagogue. She also unapologetically introduced…

Back in my China days, me and a group of friends went to the same bar almost nightly. This lasted only because we began to play a game at the bar, a game we called ‘1995’, like the year. The rules were simple, everyone had to put their phone screen side down on the bar,…

For context: Over one summer back when I was in high school, I ballooned to ridiculous proportions. I came back that fall over 6 foot and about 120+kg (300lbs, for those bad at math). I remember feeling like a god damn land whale walking through the halls of the school and watching swarms of normal-sized…

People following the blog saw that I recently posted my job hunt statistics. That of course means that the job hunt is officially over. I got a job, and I left Italy. For Hungary. I live in Budapest now. So far, Budapest has been pretty cool. On that front, that’s all I got. As for…

Friend may be a lofty word. I lived with T for a period of about 2 years, from 2010-2012. He was a strange mix of an intellectual, and a pseudo-intellectual. That didn’t make sense to me back then. Now it does. The kid made no sense when I knew him. Like many people in my…

Hey. After a lengthy period of unemployment, I got a job. It’s not the job I want. In fact, it is largely a compromise in many respects. But I guess I will fill everyone in on that in a later post. What I wanted to do is give some base statistics that I took in…