Entries from mistersquid: a digital fiction tagged with 'friends'
Wanna Grab Lunch?
Joel Spolsky»no relation« recently wrote up some of his thoughts about lunching with coworkers. Where and with whom we eat lunch is a much bigger deal than most people care to admit. Obviously, psychologists will tell us, obviously it...
I’ve Deactivated My Facebook Account
I haven’t felt this way in maybe ten years, this panicked need to just get the fuck out. But I felt it about Facebook. I’m an introvert, and I think the barrier to communicating person-to-person(s) should be fairly high,...
Who I Thought I Was
This morning I dreamt I was going to a workshop about the use of technology in academic research. I was with people who reminded me of my colleagues and coworkers in the Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia....
Down the Hatch
Sometimes life serves you a slice of shit pie and you can’t leave the table till it’s gone.1 Notes1 For Sarah, with love. ↩...
Lilacs Ascending
Whenever Carrie’s (Caron Rouzie’s) smile started beaming my way, I’d start feeling nervous, worried that in the sure-to-follow conversation I would react in ways outside my awareness. It doesn’t really matter now, I guess, since my anxieties never met their...
Secret Bobcats Fan
Dean, I miss you....
A Game of Love
I was reminded of Freud’s observations of a well-behaved eighteen-month-old child 1 whohad an occasional disturbing habit of taking any small objects he could get hold of and throwing them away from him into a corner, under the bed, and...
The only one I know
Do you worry too much people have only instrumental use for you? Life is only that way if you only have instrumental uses for people, which I know is not true about you. Focus on your emotional connection to each...
Niceties of Conversation
No time at all, but I came across the video below1 through the blog of oneautumnleaf, who replied to a comment I left on Sarah O.’s blog. It articulates how the battle for Net Neutrality in the United States is...
Election 2006: Blue is the New Black
M. Stratton and Beth Quitslund,Liz Miller (background) Such a simple and cheesy gesture sums up the initial 2006 Election results for moderates, centrists, Democrats, and liberal educators (among others). But rather than shout out, “Democratic mandate” (whatever such a thing...
Balcony
Caitlin emailed yesterday. I had been thinking about her these last two days, that we had once—twice kissed: on Mendy’s balcony and in her apartment in Graduate Court. Kelli lived in Graduate Court. Maybe Reetika, too. The first time I...
Disintegration
Tomorrow will mark the passing of the 2006 autumnal equinox and my own passage from social disconnection to emotional desolation, to a place of strength and longing. Upon learning that the astrological sign which claims me is Scorpio, a beautiful...
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