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Keith is a 23-year-old would-be writer, blogger, musician, and wannabe cultural critic. All Things That Are Good is his personal blog. More »
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Category Archives: Life
Everyone Already Seemed to Know
The knowledge that I won’t see this city for an extended period of time—that I won’t ever again see the inside of this apartment—is setting in, as is the latent sort of terror of moving across the country, jobless and into someone else’s apartment. Oh, have I not mentioned that yet? I suppose I haven’t really addressed [...]
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Checking In
If you are in fact still reading, I apologize for the lack of updates lately. Apart from applying for the occasional job (by my count, up to this point in time I’ve applied for twenty-eight positions), playing perhaps a little too much Xbox, reappropriating my love of reading from the clutches of purely obligatory academic [...]
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The Dream and the Reality
In my entire employment history, I’ve been someone’s assistant, a peon, with seemingly little importance beyond the organizational and clerical. That isn’t to say I haven’t learned a lot from jobs or that I haven’t had fun, because I have. But the nature of the positions I’ve held makes it difficult to perceive my own [...]
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Enough Reason
At first I thought, “I can’t move there. If I do, it will just be me and her and we’ll smother each other because I won’t have any other friends there.” And then I paused. And then I realized how few people there are here that I see on a regular basis. And then things [...]
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“We Would Have Had Fun”
I’m looking at my Flickr contacts’ photos, page after page of photos I do not recognize. How did this happen? Have I really not checked what was being posted on Flickr for over a week? I see some that I had previously seen, but not many over a full eight or nine pages. The posts [...]
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So Here We Are