Month: August 2022
A Trip to the Ocularist
I have a prosthetic eye. The last one I got was about twenty years ago, so I decided it was time for a new one. This is a write-up about my experience while it&...
8/24/22 addendum
I was not fully trained until I was a tween. I have a lot of shameful memories involving my encopresis. It was only recently that I learned that it could well h...
What is a fraction?
The other day, I saw a tweet joking that while calculus teachers insist that \(\frac{dy}{dx}\) is not a fraction, the LaTeX is \frac{dy}{dx}. That reminded me o...
Sheldon Cooper and Me
While I believe it has never been explicitly stated on either “The Big Bang Theory” (BBT) or “Young Sheldon” (YS), it seems pretty clear...
The Raccoon in the Trashcan
Sunday: My two brothers and I had a long, deliberate talk about childhood traumas. This is the first such conversation I remember having, at least in person, wi...
The first of August, 2022 (2)
I have long had this discomfort having conversations, especially about emotional topics. It feels like I’m playing out a script: I speak, you speak, I spe...
The first of August, 2022 (1)
It would be nice if the people who live in my head would pay rent from time to time. The first people who moved into my psyche were my parents. They have separa...