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I was telling Rahsaan how I didn’t feel quite so guilty at having ravenously consumed way too many episodes of Code Lyoko over the last couple days. Did I need time off? Well, maybe and maybe not, but nevertheless I took the time anyhow. I’ve been working hard trying to find experience in everything, no matter how small or how “unproductive” it may be. Those [...]

This weekend was madness. I had STEM training with Discoveries Unlimited all day Saturday. It was fun, yet also prepared me for some of the excitement and possible… pitfalls? I don’t want to say pitfalls because that sounds odd, but with humans I guess you never know what will happen. Everything that day was made double-fun due to the fact that Kathy was there. I [...]

Today I experimented with some binaural beats while writing, eliciting an eerie sense of calm and vague perceptual distortions. It was strange. I noticed the words flowing differently than what I am used to, and I saw words in ways I hadn’t seen before (I’ve been looking at the same piece pretty much all day, so it was refreshing to make a breakthrough like that), [...]

Today I met with Cathie from Discoveries Unlimited for an interview. Not a job interview or anything like that, but for an interview on becoming a STEM mentor. I think she likes me; I’m going in for a day of orientation and a background check on Saturday. I swear I am not a criminal. It’s exciting. It’s a way for me to give back to [...]

I’ve gone a couple months without producing a zine. It’s sad to say the least, but at least the wait is over. Very soon the new issue of Pieces will be out and available to the public. It’s a different sort of zine in that it’s not recollections of my whole life, or even a large section of it, but rather a sort of narrative [...]