Tag: childhood
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Sexist Old Men and Unpleasant Pets – Thoughts from April 30 and May 06, 2023

April 30, 2023 Last day of the month, here we are. I want to start this Thoughts paper with a thought from yesterday. I was in a van of older gentlemen and they started talking about comedians. One of them said he doesn’t like female comedians that speak vulgarly. As part of that, he mentioned…
Brian Kirwan
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Anxious Nerd – Thoughts from August 28 to September 8, 2022

August 28, 2022 I think I used to be more of a nerd, but now I’m just a recovering nerd. Reading back on my Thoughts papers tells me how much of a nerd I was. I talked about working on computers and other nerdy technical issues I was dealing with. Today, my nerdiest issues are…
Brian Kirwan
2022, A-hole behavior, A-holes, adult children, anxiety, anxiety medication, anxious adult, anxious child, autism, cartoons, childhood, computers, earliest memory, fantasy, few friends, first grade, grade school, hobby nerd, humorous, I care about other people, I thought I failed kindergarten, internet, issues, junior first, making friends, mortgage and taxes, nerd, nerdy career, nerdy skills, Other People Exist, Patti, reality police, recovering nerd, regular bills, science fiction, stories, stuffed animals, thoughts, Thoughts papers, tickets, toys, traumas -
Brian Explains Toys – Thoughts from December 25, 2010

Brian Explains: Toys This Christmas time, I thought I would talk about an important issue we must examine this time of year. It is an issue affecting us all when we reach a certain age. Are we children, teenagers, young adults, or the dreaded adult? We are walking around thinking fun-filled, happy toy thoughts and…
Brian Kirwan
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I’m Working on It – Thoughts from May 11 and 19, 2004

May 11, 2004 We had my mom over for Mother’s Day on, strangely enough, Mother’s Day this weekend. Our newly finished kitchen can be used to make shrimp, etc. We also had a Mother’s Day celebration at Patti’s mom’s house. I nerded it up with “the boys” most of the time. We were looking at…
Brian Kirwan
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November 3, 1992 – Journal Assignment 1

This journal entry comes from a Psychology 115 class I had in college. I mixed it in with my Thoughts papers because it represents my only written thoughts from 1992. Each week, we were asked to write about specific aspects of our lives. For that reason, this is probably my most organized series of thoughts.…
Brian Kirwan
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