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Lots of terrible things happened during the summer of 2004, but one thing that wasn’t so terrible was my sweet internship at Northrop Grumman in San Diego, where I got paid a shameful amount of money to stare at a computer screen during the day, and hang out on the beach with old high school [...]

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My best friend in elementary school was my next door neighbor. His name was Alejandro and his family and ours got together all the time. There was a honeysuckle bush standing at the boundary of our two backyards. The border was otherwise open (no fences). In the spring when the flowers would bloom there would [...]

During Christmas 1988 my parents bought our first Christmas tree. I was a few months shy of my third birthday. It was a huge Christmas tree, and it had big bright lights and those colored balls and the glittery garlands. Pretty awesome, if you ask me. My parents say it was [...]

Upon one of my unplanned trips to Houston, I spent some time chatting with my parents’ neighbor and friend. Upon regaling him with tales of my latest exploits, he commented that I should write an autobiography. While I don’t find my life so exciting such that it could be a well-read book, the thought [...]