Year 8

You, yes you, are more than likely in the top 1% of the wealthiest humans to have ever lived. Don’t believe me? Let’s do some calculations and see. The Population Reference Bureau in Washington, D.C. estimates that about 107 billion humans have been born since “Homo sapiens&rdqu...

I got my first promotion at my current job yesterday. I felt sort of awkward honestly – I don’t know how to act when people are praising and congratulating me! I also am annoyed that I could feel myself blushing basically all day long. I hate that I blush so easily. But yes, this isn&...

So, Heather spent 9 days with me last week. It was wonderful, as always. It ended quickly, as always. There has been some talk of making things more permanent between us. Talk of relocation possibilities. And with this talk comes bursts of excitement, but also lots of practicalities to think abou...

So, I’m at my parents’ farm for the holiday weekend. I usually only manage to make it down here on holiday weekends when I can actually stay long enough for the 3-hour trek to really be worthwhile. Whenever I’m here I have this omnipresent feeling following me that I should be c...

Yeah, so I never write here anymore. Heather is coming to visit me in August. We had this phase for a month or so where we seriously deliberated the future of Matt and Heather and tried to come to some grand resolution, but I think in the end nothing much really changed. I’m not sure…

So, in lieu of a proper update, I figured I may as well copy and paste an e-mail that I sent to Heather about 3 weeks ago. It’s a decent description of my life dilemma at the moment, at least. I just re-read it and now find it to be pathetically melodramatic at the end,…

I never write here anymore. Let’s talk about why. Now, I don’t intend for this to be an entry in which I write about how I feel like I’ve outgrown Open Diary as I am generally annoyed by such entries, but I have a feeling that is ultimately what I am going to end up…