Author Archives: Arlan
Why you do not want to go solo-cell
Since moving to the apartment, my personal telephonic connection is through my cell phone only. I am not a frequent phone user; I only first purchased a cell phone when I was going to make my first ever flight, on business. I maintained only a low amount of prepaid minutes until I moved to the apartment, where until quite recently Read More
It’s not prison, it’s a corrective facility
Since my original post on terminal eyewear dependency drew an unusual amount of sympathetic response, here’s an update. I am accustomed enough to corrective effects of the glasses that what bothers me now are the side effects. Most often this is light reflecting on the back side of the lens. One morning it took me a while to puzzle out Read More
I can’t breath
I noticed recently that I hold my breath often. It seems to be subconscious punctuation–where I might have a dash, semicolon, or exclamation point if I were writing, when I am thinking I often catch my breath. When I have a trailing space, after completing one thought and considering where to go next, I hyperventilate. This mannerism does not strike Read More
Sin in the eye of the beholder
I wore a red shirt with a starched collar to the family Christmas party. From my upbringing I got the disposition to regard nice clothes as the first step of fivolity toward decadence. I am not sure how much of that was deliberate principle versus circumstance and personal preference, but my mental point of reference is the conception of unstained, Read More