I've been working on eliminating one of my most vexing and counter-intuitive traits. When I've had a lousy day or week, I do something senselessly self-destructive. I eat like shit or don't bathe properly or don't do the things I enjoy or spend too much money.

Last week was almost wholly bad, so I spent today not being self-destructive. I spent today living.

I woke...
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I find myself quietly singing "You Can't Always Get What You Want". It seems apropos.

After some dithering and chivvying, I decided to buzz down to Portland to shop yesterday. Just as I started shopping at the Mario's in Tigard, my phone rang. My boss was frantic that our new messaging system was throwing errors.

Thus, I found myself sitting cross-legged in a pony-hide chair with my Tod's driving shoes tucked underneath me and a data-card bearing laptop propped on...
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My heart is quiet, my mind languid.

What more can you say about a birthday that starts with breakfast at the most famous sushi bar in the world, dips into some high-end shopping, dives through an underground favorite tonkatsu restaurant, and ends up with me wearing Burberry clothes and Tod's driving shoes at a window seat on the 52nd floor of one of Tokyo's finest restaurants while sipping Dom Perignon and smoking...
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In a French cafe in Harajuku this afternoon, I ordered food from a Japanese waitress in French. It seemed appropriate.

We walked into the hotel room, and my first thought was, "Oh no, there's control panel for the toilet."

I spent a quietly civilized weekend. I've missed being quietly civilized.

In the past week, I've left several hundred dollars in cash, a checkbook with a signed blank check, and a thousand dollar refund check lying on my desk at work while I wandered off to do something else. I worry about my attention span some days.

Also, I love the sublime segues of iTunes. Sequences like New Order's "Perfect Kiss" followed by Jimmie's Chicken Shack's...
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I woke up groggy, thinking, "I was going to do something this morning." Then while watching FutureWeapons, I realized that I was going to Target to buy a Wii.

Now the rest of my day is shot.