December 2011
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Dec 31st
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Happiness Journal, Day 48
1. Went to the mall, ate at GrillSmith, and looked through a book of street artists 2. Bought my textbooks for next semester 3. Woke up at 8:30
Dec 31st
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Dec 31st
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Happiness Journal, Day 47
1. Hung out with Carlie at the park 2. Started watching Parks and Recreation and 30 Rock 3. Just watched Buried
Dec 30th
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Dec 29th
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Happiness Journal, Day 46
1. Watched the first season of Portlandia 2. Margherita pizza and black tea for dinner 3. Finished Crash
Dec 29th
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Dec 29th
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Happiness Journal, Day 45
1. Watched a portion of the Kennedy Center Honors 2. Listened to some of my mom’s old 45s 3. Read more of Crash and about to go read again (and hopefully finish it)
Dec 28th
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Happiness Journal, Day 44
1. Converted several vinyls to MP3s and developed an interest in Elton John’s music 2. Read a lot of Crash 3. Watched Frasier
Dec 27th
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Dec 27th
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Dec 26th
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Dec 26th
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Dec 26th
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Happiness Journal, Day 43
1. Spending time with family (immediate, grandparents, and my aunt and uncle from my mom’s side) 2. Got a lot of great gifts this year (including a record player which is currently spinning Pink Floyd’s The Wall, clothes, and tea) 3. Watched a film my parents made for my grandfather, which was made up of a bunch of 8mm film he had shot from the first year of my mom’s existence,...
Dec 26th
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Dec 25th
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Dec 25th
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Happiness Journal, Day 42
1. Went for a bike ride 2. Baked mac n’ cheese for dinner 3. Currently watching a lecture on the paradoxes of time travel
Dec 25th
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Dec 25th
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To be with the Tao, be like the Tao
lazyyogi: Listening, not thinking.  Looking, not seeing.  Feeling, not judging.  Being, not trying. 
Dec 24th
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Dec 24th
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Dec 24th
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Happiness Journal, Day 41
1. Woke up at 7:30 from a strange but interesting dream about staying in a hotel with people from the Blake orchestra.  Then I was at the mall, looking for a museum tour (because everyone wanted me to look for it), and I ended up at a place similar to Starbucks and ordered some sort of “malt”, which actually was a cup of coffee with balls of oatmeal and yogurt on top.  In my dream, it...
Dec 24th
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Dec 24th
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Dec 23rd
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Happiness Journal, Day 40
1. Donated platelets, so, to pass the time, I watched a few episodes from the first season of The King of Queens.  In one of the episodes, Doug (the husband) thinks Carrie (his wife) is trying to impress her boss by going to a “cello concert” that he gave her tickets to.  Doug says, “You don’t even listen to cello music. Name one cello song!” (I guess if you’re...
Dec 23rd
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Happiness Journal, Day 39
1. Wrapped more gifts 2. Listened to Tom Waits while cleaning the house 3. Black beans and yellow rice for dinner
Dec 22nd
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Dec 22nd
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Dec 21st
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Dec 21st
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Happiness Journal, Day 38
1. Ate at Tung-Nam with my mom and the lady there remembered our usual order 2. Hung out with Erin 3. Baked brownies and two batches of cookies
Dec 21st
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Dec 20th
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Dec 20th
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Happiness Journal, Day 37
1. Rode my bike around Providence Lakes while listening to Regina Spektor’s Songs and Philip Glass’ Glassworks. 2. Wrapped a bunch of gifts while listening to…Regina Spektor’s Songs (it’s safe to say I really dig this album), Joanna Newsom’s Milk-Eyed Mender, and The Tallest Man on Earth’s Shallow Grave. 3. Woke up to find that my horrific dream last...
Dec 20th
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Dec 20th
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Dec 20th
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Dec 19th
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“Ryokan, a Zen master, lived the simplest kind of life in a little hut at the...”
– Zen koan (via theorthodoxheretic)
Dec 19th
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“Wherever you go you will find your teacher, as long as you have the eyes to see...”
– Suzuki Roshi (via lazyyogi)
Dec 19th
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“Noon bouncin’ ball of warm beside child Deflating ah vegelife puzzle Ah...”
– Don Van Vliet, untitled poem from the back sleeve of Lick My Decals Off Baby (1970)
Dec 19th
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Dec 19th
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Dec 19th
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Happiness Journal, Day 36
1. Listened to all three solo viola suites by Max Reger 2. Rode my bike around Providence Lakes with my mom while drinking a cup of Tazo Zen tea 3. Had corn chowder and corn bread for dinner
Dec 19th
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Dec 18th
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WatchWatch
Dec 18th
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Happiness Journal, Day 35
Forgot to do it last night 1. Had a cup of Tazo Earl Grey tea while taking a walk around my neighborhood with my mom 2. Listened to Joanna Newsom while riding my bike around Providence Lakes 3. Wrapped some gifts
Dec 18th
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Dec 18th
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Dec 17th
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Happiness Journal, Day 34
1. Had a cup of Tazo Decaf Chai tea while listening to Björk’s Vespertine 2. Walked around Providence Lakes while listening to Ella Fitzgerald 3. Went to Blake’s Winter Gala concert, saw old friends, and then walked around Ybor with Izi, Lauren, and Alex
Dec 17th
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sillywhatwell: mr-craig: Knock knock. Who’s there? Knock knock. Who’s there? Knock knock. Who’s there? Knock knock. Who’s there? Knock knock. Who’s there? Philip Glass. — Knock knock. Who’s there? John Cage. I’ve been standing out here for like four and a half minutes, didn’t you hear me? — Knock knock. Knockknock. Knocknock. Knocnock. Knonock. Knnock. Knock. Knock. Who’s there? Steve...
Dec 16th
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Happiness Journal, Day 33
1. I’M HOME! 2. Rachel and I went to the Globe and ate a delicious Hare Krishna lunch for $6 and then explored the building and found a meditation room 3. Played Philip Glass for my piano final
Dec 16th
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