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My mom so often used to make that statement when random things would go wrong. It never really registered with me how she must have been feeling, but lately, I find myself relating to that senti...

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I turned 39 on Sunday. It didn’t really register that it was my birthday. It usually doesn’t, but much less so this year. Even without the pandemic I don’t really have any friendships, no clos...

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At my previous company, I encountered a very annoying problem. Specifically, I had a coworker who thought he was my boss. I’ve just recently discovered that the inverse-photonegative of that si...

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Christmas came and went; nothing to report much on my end. I was going to have a socially distant/isolated Christmas, not so much for my own or the public health, but just because I’m perfectly ...

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I saw myself as an old man recently. I don’t mean like I had a vision or a dream or something abstract in either of those manners. I went to take a makeup dental appointment. It was supposed t...

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I just got back from an awful blind date. Well, I’m using hyperbole, but I do feel a little bit bamboozled. Permit me to explain. Last Sunday at church, an acquaintance from my class, Sydney, a...

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If I’ve been fortunate in any particular regard, it’s that I’ve never really had a bad boss. I’ve had bosses I weren’t crazy about, like the Winn-Dixie grocery store manager when I was a bagboy/...

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I had my knee surgery almost two weeks ago (two weeks ago exactly this Tuesday). I was nervous some reason. I have no idea why as I’ve had surgery before. It’s basically a time jump. You chec...

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Before I get into the meat of this entry, I got the promotion. My raise is either $2k or $5k a year, depending on how one looks at the situation. With the economy in its current condition, ever...

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One of the few bits of education I remember from my sociology class during my first year of college was something called the level of incompetence. The alleged phenomena can be described as foll...

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I wrote about my mid-life crisis last entry. I’ve sense leveled up with the following epiphany. I’m 38. My mom passed away when she was 58 and my dad when he was 68, both from cancer and/or ca...

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Apologies for the radio silence. I promise I’m not dead. In fact, I’ve never felt more alive. Aside from so many people passing away, even more being sick, and the supermarket shortages, I thi...

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I think I ruined a beautiful young woman’s crush on me last week. I’ve talked about Evelin in one of my previous entries. Evelin in a very pretty Guatemalan in her late twenties, around a decad...

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I’m sick because of course I am. I had my flu shot back in October. In early December I came down with something. I presume a bad cold because I wasn’t supposed to get the flu. I thought I wa...

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I broke a promise I made to myself. I said I would not check Erika’s Facebook profile until my birthday in March. I honestly wasn’t going to, but we’re in the thick of online dating season. Va...

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I hope everyone had a merry Christmas. Mine was very nice, even if I was kind of alone. A few weeks before Thanksgiving, my aunt called to invite me to visit. When I told her I already had pla...

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Funny how potent FOMO can be. When Erika and I were together, or even in that friends with feels phase, I was uncertain if things would work out between us. I wanted things to, obviously, but t...

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I’m glad Erika emailed me on Monday. I had taken Monday off because I had a new refrigerator being delivered. My old one was still working, but only under audible protest. Perhaps the biggest ...

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It takes a certain degree of romantic ineptitude to get dumped by someone you’re not even dating, but I’m a boundary pusher. I just received the following email from Erika. “Hi Rob, I hope you ...

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My refrigerator is dying, or at least only working under protest. A few weeks ago, it started making this horrendous buzzing. I had an appliance repairman come look at it. He said the condense...

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When I started this job, I was cautioned that some students may get a crushes on me. I suppose I didn’t disagree with this statement intellectually, but being the recipient of an infatuation was...

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On any given day, it feels like half my body has expired. If it’s not my calf, it’s my knee. If it’s not my knee, it’s my other knee. If it’s not my knee, it’s my back. If it’s not my back, i...

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Students come in all shapes & sizes, not to mention attitudes. I currently have one student with an attitude I’m amazed his parents haven’t corrected. His name is Eli, and he is the most co...

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I went to Houston today. The dean is sending me & a coworker to something called the ACBSP Conference. Even after doing some research on the event, I’m still not quite sure what it is, or a...

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I feel kind of weird grieving about the following. One of the bigger draws about moving back to Athens was the potential of reconnecting with my old TKD club. It’s just, a while ago, I arrived ...

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