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I have been a phantom. I know it, my friends are making beautiful photo sets and I am not leaving comments, I am holing up and not doing much of anything because...

I have all the following stuff going on:

1. New apartment with new roommate.
2. A big move coming up in the fall
3. Some relationship shit that is better left off the...
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So big news finally on the state of the summer. My dates for Rainier are set and I am traveling out to Seattle on the 18th of July. Which means I have five days to hike to the top of the mountain and back down. I can barely wait. This is going to be awesome.

I am becoming more and more listless these days. I have these lingering moments where I think I know what I want and then, it's gone and I can't remember. I have the dates for my Rainier climb now so I will be climbing Mt. Rainier on July 18-22, which is awesome. I got my new bike, I love it, it is like riding a...
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Man I love hanging out with my buddy Tony. So much fun, such great friends. Sometimes I really miss living in NYC sometimes I don't yesterday was a mixed bag. Today I will be in a gym in South Brooklyn, near Park Slope, spending a ton of time in the bottom of squat as instructors tell me why it isn't right. Happy Easter if that...
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I ran a 5K today and did a workout that consisted of cleans and ring dips. I am cooked and shaking and can't feel anything below my belly button. Should I be concerned? The upshot is that I took 4 minutes off my 5K time and I took three minutes off my time for the cleans and dips workouts. I am gassed. Absolutely nothing left...
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I leave for NY on Friday after work and then I am going to a Crossfit certification. It is really strange to think about how much a gym has changed my life; but over the last couple of months I have become really aware of it and I just can't believe it hasn't been part of my life longer.

Since I started going to this...
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This has not been a good week. I don't have anything to say that sounds positive or upbeat. I finished reading a book called The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullmnan. It is part of the His Dark Materials trilogy which also includes The Golden Compass (aka Northern Lights in the UK). The book started off really slow, and it took me a good long...
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So here's the deal. As I sit and watch the news, and stew about the economy and the way things are going and how much I detest the way people treat other people, I have been chewing, figuratively speaking, on a giant essay that I will post here when I am done with it. But in the meantime this is what you get:

I have...
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I spent the weekend taking care of me. I went to see my grandfather in CT and then I picked up a truck that I am going to need when I go to school this fall.

I have been listening to a lot of the new Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs' album. Which is pretty durn amazing. I am a big fan of Karen O and I...
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One of my jobs has a new customer service initiative that tracks customer satisfaction in three categories. Those that are "pained", those that are "merely satisfied", and those that are "delighted".

Customers are said to be "in pain" if things like answering the phone on the first ring, and not receiving a unique personal greeting, don't happen.

Seriously, I wonder what this means on a...
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