Ujjayi Breath

Part of the Jedi training that my sister is giving me, also known as yoga, involves something called the Ujjayi Breath. It’s a way of narrowing your throat so that you inhibit exhalations. People do this normally when they purse their lips after they’ve gone on a run. Studies have shown that it increases the partial pressure within your lungs increasing oxygen absorption. But in Jedi training, my sister had me do the Ujjayi Breath so that I would have something to... Read More

Hiding the nerd

Wow, re-reading that last post from a slightly different point of view from my own makes it seem like vain fantasy and self-aggrandizing. I’m lame for publishing such rubbish but maybe it makes sense in the big picture for me to post that. Oh blog, don’t you know that I am more complex than any kind of save the world list b.s.? I think I am realizing that my rock solid self-identity is completely in flux at the moment. Someone important to me is challenging me to talk... Read More

Always Be Prepared

We’re all put to the test… but it never comes in the form or at the point we would prefer, does it?-Charles Morse, The Edge I am a special forces operative. I enter the lobby of the Daley Plaza and I quickly survey the security looking for any holes. The most obvious is the bored rentacop “guarding” the extra wide exit. At certain times it seems that many people pass through this area, some stopping to check cell phones or chat with coworkers. After speaking... Read More

UNODIR

Sometimes after a long 12 hour day when I haven’t had a chance to eat lunch or breakfast, and the valet at the restaurant I was just shooting photos at asked me impolitely to move my car because I was parked “illegally”, in his words, in his precious parking lot, and afterwards the person in front of me sits at the red light refusing to make their right turn, even though there is no sign, sometimes after days like that I find myself eating dinner the way a hungry... Read More