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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

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And then I rose up

I had some crazy dreams last night. One ended with people entering a room, they had guns, I was hiding behind a desk, they came by and shot me. I was still alive so I was hoping they had missed me. But there was no way they could have missed.

Twenty-fourth century loses allure

I think it was yesterday morning while I was doing creative writing that I felt a cool breeze blow in through the window, while there was steam rising from my coffee in front of the window. I was lying down on the bed with the computer on my lap. It

No DS9 at the dinner table

I think there’s something about my personality that I unconsciously mirror other people, to my own detriment, until resentment bursts out somewhere. I really don’t like how G__ brings his iPad over to my house and he’s on that while I cook dinner, and then after dinner

The opposite of Bashir

I’m reminded of something my old Chinese teacher said in Taipei, when I had said how it was my responsibility to learn how to fit in in Taiwan. And she said it was just as much everyone else’s opportunity to learn about my culture and way of being,

Escapist worlds need someone to dream them

Let me sum it up by saying I realized that if there was only one thing I could do for the rest of my life, I’d want it to be writing. It’s not just a high, it’s profoundly deep, involving my whole personality and existence. And potentially

A good man with a decent job

Another thing I need to realize about G__ is that he is conventional. He has quite an extroverted, witty, curious intellect that is hungry for exploration, and what he yearns for deep down is convention. He’s not going to be the kind to surprise me. He will seek me

The rides I want to go on

Pat on the back to myself for this past weekend. It would have been the easy thing for me to get upset with G__ on Saturday for the _____, or to insist that he and I go on some of the rides I wanted to go on, instead of just the

Life gets real when you stop collaborating

Sometimes I look around me and think, the world was so much more beautiful and exciting and fresh and alive in ancient Greece [https://bcgriff.com/humor/down-societal-collapse-rabbit-hole/]. Or it’s so much more so in the future of Star Trek [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

DS9 slowly stops spinning

I was dreaming of Deep Space Nine [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_Deep_Space_Nine], and there was a war of some kind, and the enemy cut off power to the station, and the central pillar of the station, where the bulk of the people and systems were,