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I get to hold a very beautiful, very intelligent very sweet smelling woman, who also happens to love me very much, in just three days. Life for me is like those dream sequnces that you see in cartoons where everything is misty. I know, I know it shouldn't but it is I just can't help it and at this point I am not sure if...
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Did Thelonious Monk ever use drugs? For some reason I rember reading that he had an addiction to something or am I just confusing his biography with some of his contemporaries? I just finished Thelonious Monk: Straight No Chaser, a biography produced by Clint Eastwood and released in 1989. The film was created using documentary footage shot in the late 60's and includes contemporary interviews...
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How does one define success? Is there just one success or is it possible that there are two or many more than that? If one comes from a place where there is more than one culture, is having more than one culturally prescribed idea of success twice as liberating or twice as confining?

Last week and the great majority of the time before that I thought I had a good grasp on the concept of sucess and how I thought that was going to operate in my life. Do not get me wrong. Being that I am one to live with, embrace if you will, all of the paradoxes that come with life and my penchant for thought...
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I know it has been a while since I have written last but I have been kind of busy actually, not that I remeber with what at this point but that is another story all together, you see I am and have been a little preoccupied with the sort of introspection about mortality that only the death of a family member can inspire. I am...
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Well apparently game five was foreshadowing because they officially blew it. Well baseball season is over now we can concentrate on salvaging Texas's football season or we can just concentrate on art, music and what not. I am going to need a beer to put these flames out.

Yankees blew it in case you live under a rock the ALCS game six will be in New York because the Yanks failed to close. So we drank a bit, you know drown the sorrows.

Words cannot completely communicate my happiness, I am going to go see an exhibition of photographs by Larry Sultan today. That is why I love living here. More later...

Exhausted, because I taught today. Not much to say, I will be better tomorrow.

You know what I miss most about not being in grad school anymore, well besides her. O.K. second most?

I miss the community, it is so frustrating the paradox that New York is, all these people and so much loneliness.

NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART

Today's lesson is in Physiology and Anatomy, specifically the Digestive System. If you go down to your local Subway Sub Shop and order a six inch turkey breast sandwich, with lettuce, tomato, onion, spicy mustard and extra jalapenos. No I said extra jalapenos, after all where do you think I am from? Then take this culinary delight to the...
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