Year 10

Heather and I are getting married. I proposed to her a week ago today and we’ve spent the previous week trying to absorb the reality of this happening. In particular she is absorbing the reality since she wasn’t really expecting the engagement to happen RIGHT NOW. I’ve had the r...

I am so sick of the Trayvon Martin debate that I am now choosing to join in on it myself. This continues a trend of entries that I write because I’d rather write an entry here than discuss any issue on Facebook. You Open Diarists are so much more respectable. Anyway, back to the issue…

I stole this from Curious Dave, who rightly observed that it’s completely absurd to pigeonhole yourself as either “liberal” or “conservative” as American culture seems to require people to do. He already commented on the silliness of this as well as I could, so feel ...

So, I am interviewing people for the first time in my life tomorrow. I am just now realizing that I don’t really have any questions to ask them. Granted, this could easily be solved by a google search, but I don’t want to be that annoying person who asks a bunch of standard interview ...

So, Heather has been living here for nearly a month now. I’m hesitant to admit that, despite how this is obviously something the both of us have wanted for years now, the build up to her moving here had started to seem more like the culmination of a disastrously misguided and doomed relatio...

So, I haven’t written here since the entire “Kate is a fake” saga that happened at the end of January. Being a bit removed from the whole thing, I realize even more how shaken I was by it. There were certainly some sleepless nights following my discovery and I am not a man who s...

I know it’s a bit sad that it’s taken someone creating a fake persona for me to write this often on OD, but I’ll admit that I have been unable to shake the whole experience from my head these past few days. It’s probably an oddly good thing that I confirmed this years afte...

Kate messaged me randomly on AIM sometime in 2006. In our first conversation she told me that I had “just appeared” on her buddy list. She wasn’t sure how – maybe she had added me in the past and just didn’t notice. I suggested that maybe she had seen me on Open Diar...

So, I’m sure many of you have heard the recent news stories about a Notre Dame football player, Manti Te`o being “catfished.” More specifically that he developed an online relationship with a person who “died” only to later find out that the person didn’t exist...

So, I never actually got around to writing about my cruise experience on here – it was pretty awesome. It’s actually a remarkably cheap vacation for all that you get to do. Plus, it’s kinda amazing to have the opportunity to go to 4 different countries while only doing very mini...