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Tardiness and Perception of Time

By Keith | Published: Wednesday, July 21, 2010
When I was in junior high and high school, I was often tardy to school in the morning. It was probably the most consistent thing about me when I was a young student—my attention and effort certainly were not. I never intentionally skipped school, but my tardiness did put me face to face many times [...]
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Objective Reflection Upon a College Career

By Keith | Published: Saturday, May 22, 2010
I use the word ‘career’ here loosely. One of my all-time heroes stated that “your education really is the job of a lifetime.” But the whole job parallel I always found rather sketchy. It’s certainly as much work as a career, but I never personally got paid to go through it. And the education itself, [...]
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Next Stop: Skynet

By Keith | Published: Wednesday, April 14, 2010
I was in the Apple store this afternoon and while I was there I had the opportunity finally to play with an iPad for the first time. There is nothing new that I can say that everyone else and their mother hasn’t already said about the iPad (whether they’ve touched one or not), so I [...]
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We Are All Writers

By Keith | Published: Tuesday, March 30, 2010
I may have already known what day her birthday fell on—I can’t honestly remember—but it wasn’t until a waitress was checking our licenses to make sure we were of drinking age that she pointed it out. “You guys are opposites.” She was born on 2 September. I, on 9 February. Almost exactly four and one [...]
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A Better Kind of Fraud

By Keith | Published: Monday, March 8, 2010
Even as fully grown adults we remain secretly starved for guidance and instruction. Many of us are walking around with the uneasy feeling that we missed the first day of class and wondering if there are CliffNotes. Most people desperately want someone to tell them what life’s about, what people are for, what we’re supposed [...]
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Language and Personhood

By Keith | Published: Thursday, November 12, 2009
Lately I’ve been mulling over language and its limitations and in doing so, for one reason or another, I’ve started to connect it with my most recent romantic endeavor. I know with certainty that she understands the value of words. She understands their power and she understands the kind of meaning they wield and how [...]
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