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April 19th, 2030
 | 02:45 pm - contacto info
i am going to start keeping this an entry of my current info, for ease of stalking.
dan widrew
335 huntington ave, apt 57
boston, ma
02115
401-996-5614
dan@alt130.net
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November 24th, 2009
 | 11:29 am - phobi
hey remember how i'm terrified of (total) locked-in syndrome (ie, where you are totally paralyzed and appear to be comatose but are actually fully conscious)? well AHHHHHH dude was considered comatose for TWENTY THREE FREAKING YEARS until someone noticed oh wait he's been conscious the entire time.
i'll also note the end of the article: "Mr Laureys said that in about 40% of cases in which people are classified as being in a vegetative state, closer inspection reveals signs of consciousness."
in summary, if i ever appear to be in a coma, please just drop a safe on my head or something.
Current Location: United States, Boston, Forsyth St, 69-77
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November 22nd, 2009
 | 09:31 pm - a word is worth a thousand words
why do people support reading so much? for example, the big hubbub about harry potter getting kids to read and how incredibly wonderful that was. i mean, i'm a reader, books are rad, but i don't think it's inherently a more valuable pasttime than anything else. if someone wants to read or watch movies or look at paintings or whatever the hell passive entertainment you enjoy, good on ya. why is one better? i don't buy the standard argument that books exercise your imagination because you have to picture what's going on. a) this assumes you are picturing what's going on. for me, this depends on how it's written - some books are more cinematic than others. and really, if your book is THAT cinematic, just make a damn movie. also, just imagining what shit looks like is a relatively shallow bit of imagination, as imagining stories goes. b) by the same argument, wouldn't it be better to only read the plot summary on the back instead of the whole book, or to not read the book at all, so you can imagine THE WHOLE THING instead of just the visuals?
np: Slayer & Atari Teenage Riot - No Remorse (I Wanna Die)
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November 18th, 2009
 | 12:07 am - while i'm here, i suppose i could write an update
so now that i've been in law school for a few months (holy crap! when did that happen?) how am i doin? pretty well i guess. i'm (mostly) keeping up with the work. i am pretty confident about property, and i think alright in torts. civ pro is scary tho - there are so many rules! they all do weird things! gah! and it doesn't help that the professor seems to be thinking on a totally different level from most of the class. he'll ask questions and nobody has any clue what he is looking for. i don't know if we're all idiots (he seems to have explicitly assumed this, which i find kind of hilarious) or what. i guess we'll find out when we get to the final? i missed the last review session because i was exhausted and nodding off, but there's one tomorrow.
i spend most of my time here feeling really unsure of myself and what i'm doing. am i getting this stuff? what am i going to do with it? should i even be here? SOMEONE COME TAKE CARE OF ME i just want to be a stay at home dad anyway. where's my rich wife?
i need to get a new bank. i'm at university credit union now, and in a nutshell they don't exist. they have one of those stupid systems where when you call you go straight to voicemail and then someone calls you back. at first they were good about it, but once i actually had an acct they stopped existing. i leave messages on the phone, on the site, by email, no response. so hell with em! i would've closed my acct already but the closest branch is a T ride away and i'm lazy. all the credit unions around here are a T ride away.
i think i'm going to have to get off my moral high horse and go with bank of america. i've been using credit unions for 5 yrs! in theory they are good! in practice i have no idea if it makes any difference. it certainly doesn't for me, since the most complex use i make of my bank is to check my savings balance online. (this, btw, is what i have been trying to get ahold of ucu about - they don't seem to want to let me log onto the site.) anyways, i don't take the T often enough to make a monthly pass worthwhile and i don't wanna spend a couple bucks every time i need to go to the bank, and bank of american is RIGHT HERE. so i guess i'll switch.
of course, the monthly pass would be totes worthwhile if i were regularly fencing. that's a T and a bus ride each way. stupidly though, i've only gone once since i got here. i felt so happy back at it! it was really great. but every time since then i am too busy or lazy or have things planned or lots of homework or other dumb excuses. i should just go, i really should.
in other news, aws and john called me a dirty hippie today. i didn't know it was so obvious. well i mean, the dirty part certainly is. everyone here is so fancy, with their polo shirts and sweaters and good hygiene! i miss living with people who wear the same clothes for a week.
apparently i had more to say about my bank than anything else. that's kind of lame.
Current Location: United States, Boston, Huntington Ave, 335
np: Whiskeytown - Pawn Shop Ain't No Place for a Wedding Ring | Powered by Last.fm
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November 17th, 2009
 | 11:26 pm - drag
i totally got called out yesterday.
andres: *something about going to see meteors*
me: oh, cool!
andres: ... that was an invitation.
i am hugely self-conscious of not imposing myself on people. also, you are all very scary to me, especially if you seem confident. i feel like at some point my emotional development just stalled. shouldn't i have gotten over this at some point?
i feel like i've posted this same basic thought 4567 times, but oh well you can read it once more.
by the by, we saw no meteors.
Current Location: United States, Massachusetts, Boston
np: The Veils - Killed by the Boom | Powered by Last.fm
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October 24th, 2009
 | 11:48 am - movies that look pretty cool
where the wild things are
paranormal activity
the box
fourth kind
law abiding citizen
the informant!
wanna see something?
np: scissorfight - victory over horseshit
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September 21st, 2009
 | 07:49 pm - health care v assholes
so near as i can tell, the senate healthcare fight is coming down to if they get 60 votes they can pass it or otherwise they have to finagle it through an appropriations bill which is clearly a bullshit political move. but there's an obvious 3rd option that everyone seems to have forgotten about - just suck it up and wait out the filibusters. it's been done before. for example, strom thurmond filibustered a civil rights bill for a full freaking 24 hours, but eventually he gave up or passed out or died or something, and then the bill passed. this has an added benefit: people who filibuster for long enough tend to look like obstructionist assholes. so sure, by all means try and get a supermajority to sign on to it, but if getting a worthwhile bill passed means <60 votes, then just stick to your damn guns for once in your political lives. they can't talk forever.
np: Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son | Powered by Last.fm
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September 16th, 2009
 | 05:31 pm - dan's incisive political commentary for the week
larouche person: would you like some information on bringing down the tyrant? *gestures to a big poster of obama with a hitler moustache drawn on*
me: no that's all right, you people are idiots.
larouche person: well you're clearly very intelligent.
me: thanks!
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September 10th, 2009
 | 06:21 pm - lawls
i had a discussion with my civil procedure prof today about the 3 types of prima facie. he was talking about it in class and mentioned there are two uses of the term, but neither of them seemed to match the way it was used when i encountered it. remember when i beat that speeding ticket because it's not illegal to speed in nh? that case was about the 3rd type, and we had a little discussion about it. i think that means i'm smart or something.
now being nearly 2 weeks into law school, i am still rocking my streak of getting free food and/or drink every day. today was a can of amp and a giant pixie stick pixy stix (this is the spelling on the tag. i have one stix?)! which is not very substantial, as food goes, and not strictly speaking from the school as they were both corporate handouts to this nice demographic of rich students, but i am going to count it because this streak is awesome and free is awesome and food is awesome. and now i'm on a twitchy sugar high. pixy stix are seriously nothing but sugar and citric acid and food coloring. it's burning my throat a little :o
another thing i did today - again, nearly 2 weeks into law school - was get my books. ya see, neu (which is what the hip kids official literature calls northeastern) has this student-run nonprofit do-gooder bookstore thing called CISP where i got supercheap used copies of my textbooks. except they only had the old editions of the books. i asked my profs if these were close enough and got resounding noes (including hackney telling me the old edition has "incorrect pagination" because he loves 10 dollar words). so i ordered used copies of the new books off amazon for way more than i got them at CISP but still way less than fullprice textbooks. and those just came today. so i've been using the old versions so far and yeah they are actually pretty different. oh well! all better now
i hate that i like a band with such a shitty bandname.
np: Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Sleep Is Wrong
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September 4th, 2009
 | 12:24 am - schedule!
| MON | TUES | WED | THURS | FRI | 10:30-11:50
Torts | 10:30-11:50
Property | 10:30-11:50
Torts | 10:30-11:50
Torts | | 1:45-3:15
Civil Procedure | 1:45-3:15
Civil Procedure | 1:45-3:05
Property | 1:45-3:15
Civil Procedure | 1:30-2:50
Property | | | | 5:30-7:30
LSSC Adjunct Meeting | 3:30-5:30
LSSC LO Meeting | |
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August 28th, 2009
| 01:39 pm - this is going to be disasterous
oshi boston is going to be a clusterfuck tomorrow. people moving in for school + kennedy's funeral is tomorrow + since it'll be full of vips boston is closing half the fuckin city + hurricane lols + carribbean festival/parade + some concert + cirque du soleil + sox game = :(:(:(
and since hertz wanted to charge me ONE HUNDRED FORTY BUCKS to drop my car in boston, i am going to have to drive up, unpack all my shit into my room, drive back to prov, and take the commuter rail up. should be awesome.
on the plus side -- iprojectstars (1:37:19 PM): fact: katy perry owns a cat named kitty purry
np: Gavin Castleton - Gavin Castleton - 01 - Maternity Ward in G Major
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August 27th, 2009
 | 09:28 pm - cha cha changes
it's going to be really weird moving to boston. i've been here in providence, in the co-ops, for nearly 3 years. in a lot of ways it'll be great to get out of this silly stressful house, but i've felt more settled here, in more of a community, than really anywhere. and outside the house too, i know wonderful people in this city. i know this city. i don't know boston - despite having spent most of my life within an hour or two of it, i haven't spent a lot of time exploring it. i've been there plenty of times, but that was to go someplace specific and then go home. i dunno, i mean i will learn it, and meet people, and be too busy with school to worry about it much anyway, but it's still weird. this is the first time since going to unh that i've moved because i was going to something, instead of because i was done with where i'd been.
np: Thrice - Vheissu - 10 - Stand And Feel Your Worth
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August 23rd, 2009
 | 12:58 pm
so i had my getting the hell outta providence party last night. in attendance: baba and jamie. MY ONLY FRIENDS IN THE WORLD. seriously, why am i such a failure at organizing parties? i don't think i've ever had a succesful one. ah well, it was still fun. i karaoked "ain't seen nothin yet" and "runaround sue", and some drunkoid lady extolled the virtues of my party hat at great length.
in other news, i had an mri the other day. a brown study about language processing. it was a really strange experience. basically, 40 minutes of being in a big coffin, constantly beeping and toning and thrumming. somehow despite the constant stimulation of 2 senses, it felt similar to what i imagine sensory deprivation tanks to be like (and reminded me that i want to try one). i kept zoning out and having nonsensical thoughts and lost all sense of time. i actually felt a little woozy when i came out.
sadly, getting my brain magnetized does not seem to have given me superpowers. but in a couple days i will be the proud owner of a video of my brain doing brain things. i'll youtube that shit up posthaste.
np: mystikal - danger
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August 14th, 2009
 | 03:58 pm - my lunch lacked firecrackers :(
so i was having lunch today[1]. at the table next to me was a japanese dude and chinese lady, and of course i was snooping on their conversation because i'm a creeper. they were discussing how each of their cultures decides who sits where at a table. apparently in china the most respected person is seated so that they are facing the door out of the room, or out of the house i forget which. the japanese guy went into way more depth and i've forgotten it alll. the part that was interesting to me tho was when they moved on to how they think it works in the usa, which is apparently that the host and hostess sit at the heads of a long table everyone is then seated at boy/girl/boy/girl. also that on special occasions we set off firecrackers at the table, and we have place settings with seperate glasses for white and red wine.
basically what i learned from my eavesdropping is that they go to cooler parties than i do.
[1] pho! i am obsessed with pho lately. today i slammed through a whole bowl of it; usually those are good for 2 meals. also i put in a ton of hot sauce so while i'm eating it i have to constantly wipe my runny nose. i think the people who work at the pho place think i'm always sick.
np: Anathallo - Buzzgrinder is cool, you aren't - 04 - The River
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August 12th, 2009
 | 08:03 pm - skoo
i was lookin at northeastern's site last night, and discovered that i already have homework! each class has reading assigned for day 1. eek! this place does not fuck around. move-in day is saturday (29th) and orientation starts monday, classes start wednesday, adn they're all like YOU WILL BE BUSY ALL THE TIME YOU WON'T HAVE TIME TO DO ANYTHING ONCE ORIENTATION STARTS. so people are somehow expected to open bank accts and organize their shit and get internet set up and everything else on.. sunday? so i was getting kinda stressed at all this, but i looked at my actual schedule and felt better. the courses themselves don't take up a huge chunk of the day. aaand my 1st class isn't til 10:30 except fridays when it's 1:30. mon/tues/fri i'm out by 3ish. so stuff will be totally doable around classes. except for the centuries of reading i will supposedly have every day. let's start a deadpool on if/when i drop out
np: The Arcade Fire - Funeral - 03 - Une Annee Sans Lumiere
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August 5th, 2009
 | 11:18 pm - stab
i had a dream last night about getting back into fencing and it got me all excited, and i woke up all about it. northeastern doesn't have a team but there are probably some community teams or something i could find. who knows if i'll even have the time for it anyway tho
np: the breeders - iris
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August 3rd, 2009
 | 02:12 pm - pushy
i was talkin to a girl the other day who will remain nameless until i ask if she gives a shit about me postin this. she was saying how all the relationships she'd been in the past few yrs basically resulted from the guys aggressively pursuing her when she didn't particularly want to be with anyone, and that while she was happy in the relationships there was some amount of resentment over their initial pushiness. in my fear of being a creepo i try to be very unpushy and let other people lead interactions to be what they want, which accidentally makes me a different sort of creepo sometimes, but also is i think why i am in the failed romantic pattern that i am. which now that i think about it is just a longwinded way of saying nice guys finish last, which is a selfpitying way of saying the world owes me something for being good ie unobtrusive. which it doesn't, but sometimes i wish it did.
np: Diane Cluck - Oh Vanille - 10 - Yr Million Sweetnesses
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 | 12:00 pm - slurp
much like booze, i think i like to be drinking tea more than i like actually drinking tea. i don't particularly like the taste[1], but there is something pleasant and relaxing about the act of drinking it, which is probably all psychosomatic but whatev it's still nice.
i never have anything to post anymore. this is seriously the most interesting thought i've had in days.
[1] green tea tastes how i imagine boiled grass would taste.
np: Built To Spill - There's Nothing Wrong With Love - 03 - Big Dipper
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July 20th, 2009
| 10:52 am
state: thx amber
np: mountain man - animal tracks
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July 13th, 2009
 | 11:31 pm - sibling
While his mother cradled the child in her arms, his father had knelt by the bed, kissing them both, laughing and sobbing, delirious with happiness. Prabir had been relieved that his mother was no longer in agony, and quite smitten with his newborn sister, but that hadn't stopped him from wondering what Madhusree had actually done to deserve all this adoration. Nothing he hadn't done himself. And that would always be true: however precocious she turned out to be, he'd had too much of a head start to be overtaken. His position was unassailable.
Unless he was working from the wrong assumptions. He'd always imagined that he'd somehow earned his parents' love, but what if his sister's reception was proof that you began life not with a blank slate, devoid of either merit or blame, but with the kind of unblemished record that could only be marred? In that case, the best he could hope for would be to slip no further while he waited for her to fall as far.
-greg egan, teranesia
np: diane cluck - touch deprivation
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