A few days ago, bill okayed the purchase of a pda, so i got me a sleek, shiny new visor edge.
already i’m quite addicted to it, in spite of all it’s quirks. i’m thinking of making this my wake-up alarm; i read my mission statement, goals, and daily to do lists first thing in the […]

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sometimes i look out at the night sky and am amazed by the number of stars i can see, even here in light-polluted southern california. for each star in my field of vision (in my neighborhood probably less than 500 even on a good dark night), i know that there at least 400 million other […]

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every time i watch the trailer for this movie, i get tears in my eyes. i only go to the theater two-three times a year, and one of those slots will be reserved for this movie. watch it if you to want get a glimpse into what every mormon missionary goes through during their two […]

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last night we made our own gyoza (chinese potstickers) from scratch. usually we buy the packaged ones in the freezer section of our local chinese market (once i took the kids there and we saw a bearded man screaming and desparately trying to shake a live crab off his finger like some mean spiney red […]

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some classes that i’m thinking of sneaking into when fall quarter starts:
- brain and behavior- existentialism- history of asian art- classical japanese- the gods- world religions- problems of philosophy- intro to ethics- calculus- classical physics
during the summer session there is a class called ‘history of the devil’ and another one about […]

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yesterday while riding my bike to work, i saw six, count them, six great blue herons!
i love my commute::

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the tooth fairy has had a hard time at the remy household. my son lost five of his baby teeth over the past year or two. i think the first time he was suspicious. “i put a tooth under my pillow and i get money? are you sure?” after the first magical transformation, he got […]

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i started my new job at uc irvine yesterday. one bright ray of sun cuts through the needles and branches of a pine tree, through my open window, and across my desk. every so often a cool breeze washes over me. if i look away from my monitor, i can see the cross-cultural center, the […]

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the monitor sits solidly in front of me, thin blue and grey bars across the top, another grey bar across the bottom. a field of perfect whiteness fills the expanse in between, marred only by lines of black courier text which grow across the page in rapid spurts between long pauses. the electron gun hidden […]

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i am a contradiction, a hypocrisy, a paradox. maybe i deserve to be thrown into an institution and drugged up for schizophrenia. i am a spiritual, intuitive, emotional being that is capable of reasoning. or perhaps i am an intelligent, rational, thinking being who is also capable of faith. or both.
i’m still trying to figure […]

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