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Author Archives: The Lost Pedestrian
mass
it’s becoming a bad habit. every Friday night after work i wander off to some classical concert, indoors or outdoors, and each concert always seems to feature a mass. And i get all excited, thinking… this will be so cool. … Continue reading
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Tagged amen, Beethoven, Friday, mass, rapture, Schubert, singers
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screened
another extremely clumsy job interview today. i am not sure exactly what took hold of me, but this voice, foreign to my comprehension, was speaking through my body. the interview was with this recruiting firm for nonprofit organizations. i applied … Continue reading
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Tagged body, eyes, foreign, ingratiating, job interview, recruiting firm, revenge, screening, soul, voice, weather
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$1295 / 2br – Great deal on this spacious 2 bed in Prime East Lakeview! (Chicago – Lakeview)
finally, the drought has ended. the smiling and laughing drought. 2 days in a row. the first was yesterday, playing music with some friends, one of whom handed me some sort of lap steel guitar. we played “Moon River” and … Continue reading
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Tagged apartment, Craigslist, drought, lap steel guitar, laugh, Moon River, smile
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assertiveness training
lately i keep encountering situations–at work, at places that are not at work–where people are telling me i need to be more assertive in how i communicate. and this makes me angry because i don’t feel as if i am … Continue reading
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special relationship
i was asked by this performance/live art collective to respond to a weekly series of prompts as part of a dialog between American and British artists that will culminate in a 12 hour event in november. this week’s prompt: Using … Continue reading
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Tagged Blair, Bush, clouds, pleasantries, special relationship, tea-time, television, Tunisia, Wisconsin
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fewer pineapples
it’s oh so tempting to delete yesterday’s post, but i don’t think i am allowed to do that here. technically, i am allowed, but morally, ethically, i cannot give myself permission to delete. one can’t go out and about in … Continue reading
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Tagged apartment hunting, bourgeois, budget cuts, car, clothes, food, gym, hair, hedge fund manager, internet, patron, patronage, travel
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the ideal
hour and hours obsessing over that elusive ideal apartment in this town. will i never be satisfied? that’s the question? compounded by my desire to live in a totally different region of the country. i guess my hopes of getting … Continue reading
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Jonah Complex
the sky tonight was so purple. this lush purple that was both comforting and threatening. the kind of purple that draws in a certain type of person, such as myself. maybe walking into this sky is like swimming into the … Continue reading
tunnelvisionary
i think i’m worried. and if i’m not worried, i should be worried. i worry that i am devolving into a mean-spirited person. once in a while i notice that i am walking around in a tunnel. if not a … Continue reading
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Tagged $50 bills, cashiers, mean-spirited, nice, prayers, security guards, sincerity, traces
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out and about
maybe my big problem isn’t that i’m running out of things to write about. i’m just running out of places where i can write. even places where i can write that i am running out of things to write about. … Continue reading
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Tagged apartment, climbing walls, distractions, gyms, libraries, not writing, piped-in music, places, Starbucks, the natural world, victory, wi-fi, writing
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an omen
i don’t know if it’s just me, but maybe you’ve noticed this, too, that the dogs inhabiting this planet are looking more amazing that at any time i can remember. everywhere i look, there’s one wondrous canine after another. i … Continue reading
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Tagged awestruck, Bluetick Coonhound, canines, dogs, fortuitous, grace, omen, radiance
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the end of therapy
i’ve been living in an isolation booth these past few weeks. and you know what? i kind of don’t find it to be very pleasant. Even though I can’t seem to separate myself from solitude, you know if I had … Continue reading
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Tagged appointment, checking account, health insurance, isolation booth, Kindle, late cancellation fee, solitude, therapist, traffic
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ne’er-do-well
I was doing nothing well today. I mean I actually did a lot of things today, but none of them were done very well by me. If that makes any sense. When given my first significant deadline at my job … Continue reading
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