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Entries from December 21st, 2005

Puffy

December 21st, 2005 · 2 Comments · Journal

There’s a girl in a puffy, puffy jacket sitting in front of me. I use the phrase “in front” loosely – there’s a 15″ laptop screen between her back and my flying fingers. A puffy jacket! This is Palo Alto, where, excepting the occasional heavy rain and flash flood, the weather rivals that of San [...]

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What

December 19th, 2005 · No Comments · Musings!

In winter 2004, I better understood human behavior. My behavior. I understood that depressions is a “prolonged negative deviation from one’s average mood”. I understood that I wasn’t clinically depressed. It’s just that my average was – is – lower. Was I relieved? …No… It’s so hard to explain, but let me try. When you’re [...]

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“That’s Cute…”

December 16th, 2005 · No Comments · Journal

– Radia Perlman on hearing that I was still working on my undergrad. :~) What’ll it take – a graduate degree – for me to no longer be cute? :~)

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