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Writer. Researcher. Historian. Lapsed Academic. Poster child for the Cancerian moon. Midnight Fairy King. FDR Liberal. Church of Pearl Jam. Dual Canadian & American.
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I'm so fatigued today that I feel like a ghost. COVID can get bent.

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Just sitting here sick with COVID and thinking about that delicious sax riff from George Michael's "Careless Whisper."

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I avert my eyes, but the disquiet moves to reconnect.

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Awful things keep escalating in the world. I’m going about my daily life. My feed is a mix of tragedy and AI slop. I’m reading jokes about WWIII. Life is surreal.

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When I was a kid, I loved bowling. I even played on a youth bowling league team and we won second-place trophies one year. Now, my hometown bowling alley has long since closed, but I sure miss bowling. I should pick up the hobby again. 🎳

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I don't buy the idea that you need to pursue that one overwhelming passion in life. I used to think there was something wrong with me for pursuing different interests, but no more. If you have that one passion, great. But for me, the human experience is too rich to focus on one thing until I die.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Yay I have COVID again.

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

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I'd be more "body positive" if my body wasn't such a source of physical and emotional punishment to me.

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Everything I listen to:

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When I was young, I disassociated frequently. I didn't realize I was doing it at the time, but years of adulthood therapy helped me identify this habit. It helped me survive severe depression, and I find myself looking at disassociation once again in the face of a decaying world.

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It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel like taking a nap.

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These trending topics are very appropriate for 2025:

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Annnnnd I'm sick AGAIN. If anyone needs me, I'll be laid out like a drunken hummingbird.

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I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions. ~ Augusten Burroughs

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I've been watching a lot of Bigfoot documentaries of late, and I can't help but wonder how the big fella copes with climate-change driven heat waves.

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The National Archives at College Park are where I found some of the most significant primary sources for my book on Confederate nationalism in Civil War Mississippi. Was that project "a legitimate business need?" Probably not, but knowledge creation is more important than shareholder capitalism.

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I've been watching a lot of Bigfoot documentaries of late, and I can't help but wonder how the big fella copes with climate-change driven heat waves.

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What actor's expression in a movie will stay with you for the rest of your life.

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Things I saw on my way home:

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90 percent of drivers in the Greater Toronto Area view turn signals as either optional or outright obsolete.

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