3p & 31
wednesday
22 feb 2006

We have two or three great moving experiences in our lives—experiences so great and moving that it doesn't seem at the time that anyone else has been so caught up and pounded and dazzled and astonished and beaten and broken and rescued and illuminated and rewarded and humbled in just that way ever before.

Then we learn our trade, well or less well, and we tell our two or three stories—each time in a new disguise—maybe ten times, maybe a hundred, as long as people will listen... What you aim at is to get in a good race or two when the crowd is in the stand.

—F. Scott Fitzgerald

Busy day at work; trying to get a big mess of loose ends done today, and I had a Red Bull this morning that made me blindly grab numerous responsibilities and actually invest some level of personal concern regarding whether or not they get done.

It's a rare feeling for me, sometimes, being invested in things.

Anyway, here's some quick links: