Last Friday, Fehmeen and I attended a speaking engagement at Foothill College. The event, hosted by the philanthropic group Trust in Education, featured Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns, in a discussion with Trust in Education founder, Budd MacKenzie. Their conversation centered around MacKenzie’s groups mission of “Bringing Education [...]
Archive for January, 2009
“I’ve Got a Lot of Problems”
Posted in Accessibility, Bad Behavior, Fehmeen on January 30, 2009 | 3 Comments »
25 Random Things About Me
Posted in Bad Behavior, Life on January 26, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I read a note on facebook the other day which was posted by my friend Clarece. It was a list of 25 random things about her. After I finished reading her list, I decided to compose one of my own. I initially published it on facebook but then I figured, hey, why not post [...]
Anatomy of a Rejection
Posted in Faith, Thank You on January 21, 2009 | 2 Comments »
When I initially sat down to compose my “This I Believe” entry about a month and a half ago, I had no idea that it would turn out the way it did. I originally intended to include only the bit about how the removal of my two rotten teeth resulted in the eradication of a [...]
Three Restaurants, Two Daves, and One Sleeping Baby
Posted in Life on January 16, 2009 | 2 Comments »
One of the cornerstones in my relationship with Fehmeen is our mutual love of eating in restaurants. To us, nothing is quite as satisfying as sitting down to a delectable meal prepared by and served by someone other than ourselves. Our near insatiable appetites for restaurant food reached an all-time high (or was it [...]
Rants and Raves Revisited Volume 1 Issue 5
Posted in Rants and Raves on January 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Hello everyone and welcome to a long overdue installment of R and R Revisited. The past few weeks have been a bit more mentally and physically challenging for me than they have been in the recent past and one of the unfortunate by-products of rougher than expected times is a drop in the timeliness and [...]
Nine Thousand
Posted in Emma, Fehmeen on January 8, 2009 | 13 Comments »
* A mutually agreed upon prize will be awarded to the first person to correctly explain the meaning behind the title of today’s post.
The Perfect Shitstorm
Posted in Fehmeen, Symptoms, Treatments on January 5, 2009 | 6 Comments »
I have always been a guy who appreciates routine. I’m not as OCD as I used to be like the years when I parked my truck in the same space at work every day. Or when I took a picture down the same hallway every school day at the exact same time over a three [...]
Merry X-Mazzz and Happy Holidaze
Posted in Family Fun, Life on January 2, 2009 | 2 Comments »
At the end of my final clinical trial visit at UCSF two weeks ago I was examined by a neurologist. Once all the poking and prodding and pushing and pulling was over she offered up the following opinion on my condition: For someone with the amount of muscle strength in my legs, I should be [...]
