Year: 2012

  • Fear the Zipper

    Wow, it’s September already. A year ago, I entered a contest to blog about London’s big September event, the Western Fair, and was chosen as one of the official “Real Serious Bloggers.” As with all things in life, I took it as an opportunity to see what I could get away with. Here is the…

  • At the Gym, Volume 6

    I was getting pretty unhealthy there for a while. A combination of slower metabolism, a sedentary job, and eating an entire cake after every meal eventually got to me, adding pounds and inches. Having recently become single only brought more attention to this fact, because if my observations of the human race have been accurate, the…

  • Tolerance, Conflict, and Nonflict

    A lot of conflict can be explained in terms of differing tolerance levels. A disagreement may simply be a matter of one person hitting their limit before another. An example will help: let’s say a couple is fighting because he feels like he always has to clean up her mess around the house. It would…