Archive for September, 2013

Pets

I haven’t had very good experiences with dogs. They terrified me as a kid and one of my earliest scary memories involved having a neighbor’s growl at me. I took off and of course it chased me, caught up and pulled my shorts down. Everyone thought it was funny but I vividly remember lying face […]

Only in L.A.

As I hurried in through the gate on my way to class, I gave the brief token nod to the deadlocked guy just emerging. “Hey man,” he called after me, handing me this: Sweet deal isn’t it? I didn’t lift an eyebrow, because I’m incapable of lifting only one, so I faced him what I […]

The State of Things

A little over a year ago, I was complaining about how people choose to wear their watches and the TSA. Fall 2013 finds me pursuing a Master’s degree at the University of Southern California. In many ways grad school isn’t what I was expecting, and I still don’t know how everything will play out. Being […]