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The Way My Brain Works or Doesn’t

Let’s see if I’m awake enough to write. I’m working the polls on Tuesday; that means being there from 5 AM to about 10 PM. I’m planning on waking up around 4:15, that is much closer to when I usually go to sleep. I decided to spend the weekend shifting my internal clock. Usually I […]

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The Doctor that Wouldn’t Vax

Yesterday was a bad mental health day. It was due to a confluence of events the most important of which is isolation, I have not seen a friend in almost two weeks. Talking to my psychiatrist did more harm than good. I like my psychiatrist, but I found out that he not vaccinated and doesn’t […]

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Shooting for the Dune

I hope I properly reset my circadian rhythm this morning. On Saturday I slept until 11. I let myself do that on Saturday. Then I did it again on Sunday. I went to sleep at 1:30 instead of midnight last night but when I woke up at 7:40 I left myself go back to sleep […]

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I’m Walking Here

You know what happens when I let myself sleep late? I blog late. I need to try and not do that. Yesterday I had therapy and worked through my disappointment about not getting the job. My current theory is that it’s my therapists fault as she was thinking about losing me as a patient if […]

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No Work

I didn’t get the job. I decided to tear the band-aid off. I didn’t even expect to hear from them until next week instead I heard yesterday. I have no idea what happened as the interview went so well and I got nothing but praise from the interviewers. I won’t speculate, at least I won’t […]

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Mmm Sweet Garlic

It’s 9:08 AM and I’m writing, how did that happen? I actually started before 9:00 but the insert time keyboard shortcut alt+shift+T wasn’t working. Instead that was opening the snipping tool. It wasn’t just in word but in all apps. I couldn’t figure out what happened until I googles alt+shift+T and discovered that happens in […]

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Interview

Welcome to a watching post-season baseball game edition of Wise Madness. The reason I’m writing so late is what I have to write about. At 10 AM I had my third and final interview with the charter school group I applied to teach at. For many of you that’s the middle of the day, for […]

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Thee Ate Her

Yesterday Katherine and I went to the theater (pronounce that pretentiously with three syllables). We went to see the great actor David Moseder (moh-SEE-der) in Night Watch with the Heights Players in Brooklyn Heights, funny how that works out. David is a friend and partner in crime. We even acted together in the classic music […]

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Anna and the Lord of Liechtenstein

Sorry I’ve been missing in action. I’m going to skip Friday and not write about what I did today. Instead, I’ll launch into the epic saga of the wedding of Dan and Anna. I did what most people do the morning of an afternoon wedding, I went to the hospital for an infusion. I played […]

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Woe Be Gone I Saw Debi Smith

Yesterday’s adventure was seeing Debi Smith and Garrison Keillor at City Winery New York. That’s not how I wanted to start this, but all my English teachers taught me to put the most important idea in the first sentence. I like to work into things gradually. I got my assignment for Election Day; I’ll be […]