zarth

One month reprieve - my landlords love me. Oi. Now if I can just find a steady job, I might manage to keep a roof over my head . . .

"What happened?"

I'm flabbergasted anybody reads this, for one. And what comes next isn't happy.

The meeting was inconclusive, by my lights. She gave me sound advice on how to choose a program, but it was the kind of advice that would only do me any good if I already knew what I was going for. I certainly didn't come away with any new sense...
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Going to go meet with one of my old professors today to discuss grad school.

The last year and a half, since graduation, has been hard. When I originally went back to college, sickened to the quick by the prospect of being a janitor for the rest of my life, I had the notion of becoming a history professor. In my senior seminar (the first...
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Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita
mi ritrovai per una selva oscura,
che la diritta via era smarrita.

(When I had journeyed half of our life's way,
I found myself within a shadowed forest,
for I had lost the path that does not stray.
--tr. by Allen Mandelbaum)

Today the Dalai Lama is exactly twice as old as I am.

As the inestimable Dr. Gonzo would say:
Fuck the Pope.