Category: academia
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Here’s a sample of some of the crazy shit I end up saying in class: Just as the Skeptics refuse to rely on the senses, so too do the Buddhists.… more ›
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Walking the halls of my large, very international, urban university, I often find myself face to face with what I once considered human-sized jawas: Muslim women wearing hijab. In fact,… more ›
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My calendar tells me it’s spring break this week, despite the fact that spring doesn’t begin for a another week and that over my “break” I have to write a… more ›
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I wonder if I’ll ever post to this blog again. I wonder if my days will ever stop being so damned full of foolishness and nonsense and incessant busywork. I… more ›
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Thankfully I shaved my head last week or I would’ve spent three hours last night pulling out my hair in the worst graduate class of my life. First off, there’s… more ›
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My popularity has soared over the past several months, while my faith in such things as popularity has plummeted. When I was in high school, I always thought it strange… more ›
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I’m fairly mild-mannered as I move through my days. And although patience is not one of my virtues—blame my sonofabitch father for passing along that characteristic—years of meditation, qigong, and… more ›
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In honor of a Japanese tradition I recently learned about, I have chosen sempū as the kanji to represent the passing year. Sempū means “whirlwind” and is written thus: From… more ›
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Just a week after returning to the States from Europe I had already had enough of Dallas and crap at the university…. Or at least I knew I was going… more ›