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new job, new phone

So here’s a little exciting thing about the new job: I get to buy a new phone! For the past six years I’ve been using work-issued cell phones. This is good in that they are free (for me). It is bad in that I never got a top-of-the-line phone. Well in 2002 I did buy […]

derek’s big day

So I am just back from picking up my bib number at the marathon expo, which is always fun and exciting. But that was not the most thrilling part of my day so far. Oh no.

Earlier, I accepted a new job and gave notice on my current one.

Yup, after six years as a […]

marathon pasta party

pasta party Originally uploaded by derek7272.

At the Flyers pasta party with Flygirl and M., fueling up before Sunday’s big race

my ethnicity

So this is often one of the first questions people ask me when they meet me: “where are you from?”

“Massachusetts,” I reply.

But often what they really mean is where are you from-from. Where are your roots? What’s your ethnicity? What the eff are you?

I don’t mind the question at all — […]

thoughts on blogging

Yes this blog has gotten me in a little trouble from time to time. And maybe it has gotten a little silly lately. Like, uh, some of the questions that were posed to me? I think I might try to affect a tone of a little more “detached aloofness” and not respond to every single […]