Category Archives: Blog
I’m Back!
Readers! 5/15/2013! Wowza, it’s been a month since I’ve written to you last. What have I done since then? At least 40 hours of improv and a nice chunk of job interviews. I guess I cracked the cover letter code … Continue reading
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I sorta get it!
Readers! 4/15/2013! I started writing a letter and partway through I realized I had to backtrack, re-examine my thoughts, and start all over. At the outset I was thinking about gerrymandering and how it doesn’t seem worth it to me … Continue reading
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Just be less wasteful, dude
Readers! 4/4/2013! A while ago I was going to write about this place called Otarian. It’s an eatery that keeps track of the carbon footprint of everything it sells. Part of its marketing is that if you eat there you … Continue reading
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JVP Articles are Up!
Readers! 3/27/2013! I uploaded to my website what I thought was the best of my Johnsonville Press articles. I winced during the parts where I talked at length about philosophy, so I cut those parts out–they detracted from the narrative … Continue reading
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Unconscious Play Mind
Readers! 3/21/2013! I’ve been thinking about the subjective experience of improvising. At the UCB, there is often talk of “the game of the scene” and I feel like the word game is apt in more way than one. On the … Continue reading
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Fear Narratives
Readers! 3/19/2013! Lately I’ve been thinking about the way the mind works and how we make sense of things–more specifically how we decide what counts as our thoughts and what doesn’t (how we decide what counts as the “real” us). … Continue reading
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I am a timeless, magical creature
Readers! 3/14/2013! I was just thinking how much of a hassle I put myself through when I had low self-esteem. I used to go around thinking that any success I’d encountered was a part of an elaborate conspiracy designed to … Continue reading
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Grandma’s 90th Birthday!
Readers! 3/7/2013! It’s almost my grandmother’s 90th birthday! I will take this time to reflect on how much I love my grandmother and some of our most memorable moments together. I don’t remember what it was like when my grandmother … Continue reading
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Getting Phased
Readers! 2/4/2013! I’ve been thinking about improv lately. When I did the iO summer intensive in 2012, I also studied with Piero Procaccini. Piero was incredible! I’ve really been mulling over one of his lessons recently: 90% of improv is … Continue reading
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