Random Erik

Who do I sue? My personality has never been described as happy-go-lucky. I’ve never been a little ray of sunshine. Since I was a kid, I’ve dealt with dark moods and anxieties. They go way back. But they didn’t really come into full bloom until I entered junior high school (it’s called middle school now, [...]

Maggie’s away, and I’m cleaning up. Actual Spring cleaning. Maybe it’s a race-memory sort of thing, but I just have the urge to organize, clean up and clean out. And while going through my hard drive as part of the process (thorough, huh?), I came across this. It’s something I wrote back in 2000, just [...]

Does anyone else have this fantasy? The one where you’re back somewhere in your past, but you have your current brain? Anybody? Because I have this fantasy fairly often, especially when I’m dwelling needlessly on something from my childhood or going through a bout of depression. “I should have done this, I should have said [...]

Second place. Not too bad, really. 18 classes over 7 days, and that’s accounting for my zero classes on Saturday. So an average of 3 classes a day. It’s little wonder that I’m exhausted. If you haven’t read my previous blog on this, you may better understand what I’m talking about by reading that one [...]

Sometimes I can be, well, stubborn. Once upon a time I won a bar bet involving 10 pound dumbbells. Why there were ten pound dumbbells in the bar and who brought them I’m still a bit unclear on. I think we were making fun of the guy who had them, which is what led to [...]