http://www.introspektive.com Tomorrow's History, Written Today Mon, 13 Oct 2008 13:45:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So, for the last month or so I've been seeing a girl. Let's call her Summer. All in all, she's been pretty good for me, with a couple of minor exceptions. She's been a really good reflector of what's really going on with me and inside me. I've noticed how ... http://www.introspektive.com/2008/10/13/summer-loves/ Being newly single again is difficult, but I'm taking it as much in stride as I can.  One of the things I'm doing in regards to this new singleness is I've started trying to get myself back in shape.  Well, I'll be honest with you, it's NOT easy.  I mean, ... http://www.introspektive.com/2008/10/10/back-on-the-horse/ One would figure that, since I'm supposedly part of his target audience; young, urban, middle-classed, and somewhat disenfranchised; that I'd find some semblance of appeal in Barack Obama.  Yet, as I'm sure you can tell by the tone of the previous statement, I find him less than enchanting.  Maybe I'm ... http://www.introspektive.com/2008/08/08/and-im-supposed-to-listen-to-you-why/ Imagine my surprise to find myself suddenly single again.  I mean, I thought I was rising from the ashes before, but to one day be suddenly ejected from my family... my head is still spinning.  I'm going to spare the gory details at present, as those who need to know ... http://www.introspektive.com/2008/08/06/meta-phoenix/ One thing I've learned over my relatively short life thus far, is that people tend to expect people to view life through the same eyes that they do.  Generally, a dishonest person feels justified in their dishonesty because they figure everyone else is just as dishonest as they are.  A ... http://www.introspektive.com/2008/05/21/projection-of-personal-perspective/ One of the hardest lessons that life has taught me is the fact that it's usually easier to do something convenient than it is to do what should be done.  I mean, speaking generally, it's a lot easier for me to put a dirty plate in the sink than it ... http://www.introspektive.com/2008/05/14/do-the-right-thang/ This is more of an entry to my future self more than anything else.  The mind has a way of editing the past so that it doesn't seem as bad as it was.  Sort of in the fashion that an oyster makes a pearl out of a grain of sand.  ... http://www.introspektive.com/2008/05/14/give-up-the-butt-smoking-cessation/ I've heard it said that each child is different, and you should never expect your children to act like one another growing up.  Xi'an sure enough proves that true, as he's so much different than Elana was at this stage.  I've NEVER seen a kid so irritable before in my ... http://www.introspektive.com/2008/05/12/mommas-boy/ I feel guilty for caging up Shadow in the downstairs bathroom. We'v only had him for about a year, and he's got a very interesting dynamic with the family. Basically, he abuses us. Between attacking Trish's or my feet, or Kailani's head when she'd lay down on the living room ... http://www.introspektive.com/2008/05/10/mistreated-kitty/ "Wax on, wax off".  This phrase, for people in my generation tends to promote images of a little Japanese guy giving a kid from New Jersey what he asked for, in a roundabout way.  The movie from which the phrase comes, "The Karate Kid", which I managed to catch on ... http://www.introspektive.com/2008/05/06/teaching-technique/