Tag: interesting people

• Experiencing Things not Made for Me, Including Silence – Thoughts from December 3 and 6, 2023

  

  December 3, 2023 English is my first language. I don’t really have a second language, unless you count Nerd as a language. Sometimes, I wish I spoke another language well enough to have conversations, but not enough to put in the time to actually do it. I have delved deeply into English enough to keep…

  Brian Kirwan

  October 22, 2024

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  2023, a good person, audio examples, audiobook, autobiography, Barbra Streisand, belief, bribing our kids, Christmas, Christmas myths, common ground, diverse people, English language, enjoy the fantasies, experiencing things not made for me, good at urination, good for goodness sake, history books, hypocrites, interesting conversations, interesting people, interests, kids watch what you do, libraries, lying to kids, movies, music, nerd language, people disturbed by silence, people’s stories, restroom, Santa, Santa Claus, second language, silence, silence is unnatural, silence makes me anxtious, silent library, silent restroom, silent room, songs, straight white man, telling kids about Santa, The Nightmare Before Christmas, thoughts, toilet, treating strangers badly, urinal

• Ignoring Other People and My Moth Friend – Thoughts from May 20 and 21, 2023

  

  May 20, 2023 I’m on day six of eight days of working the same earlier shift. It’s only two hours off the shift I enjoy better, but it’s an annoying two hours. The most annoying part about it is feeling tired every day. If I told you when I was coming to work, you would…

  Brian Kirwan

  May 23, 2024

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  2023, abnormal jobs, autism, being an atheist, bored or freaked out, boring people, carefull word choice, caring about other people, catering stories to the group, connecting to other people, conversations about religion, coworker, drumming in the air, exciting people, experiencing the world, ignoring other people, ignoring the world, incidence, interesting people, little creatures, looking strangers in the eye, loud clothes, moth, moth on my windshield, movements as communication, my Monday, my moth friend, no beliefs, observations, Other People Exist, people’s stories, shyness, snoozes, stimulus, storytelling, the early shift, thoughts, tired, unpleasantness of the world, videoing, weird stories, work

• Marching Forth with Thoughts – Thoughts from March 4, 2023

  

  As I’m reminded every year on this day, march forth is the only day that is a phrase. Beyond that, it’s just another day that will live in obscurity. I’m going to treat this day like I treat every day – like the first day of the rest of my life. Speaking of days (they…

  Brian Kirwan

  April 11, 2024

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  2023, 52-year-old, a thoughtful life, acting happy, anti-religious, brain is a powerful tool, divine gold, Facebook, gobs of money, gold car, gold crayon, gold-colored car, grandma’s car, interesting people, jealous of the wrong things, jealousy, jealousy is stupid, living someone else’s life, march forth, money is not happiness, Patti, people just walking alone, poem, pure gold, staring at our phones, stuffed animals and toys, thoughts, Thoughts papers, Trump ruins gold, Valentine's Day, VHS tape, walking with distractions, weird things about me, what it takes to be happy