This is me on April 15, 2001, the photo I’ve used at BloodhoundBlog since its inception:<\/p>\n
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This is me on July 9, 2012, a week ago today:<\/p>\n
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A little more weight on me, and a little jowlier, but not much difference. The set of my features is a constant, a reflection of the world I see outside my mind.<\/p>\n
This is me from Man Alive!:<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n Your mama told you, when you glared and grimaced at her, that your face would freeze like that, but neither one of you knew she was right: The facial expressions we wear most often – habituated Mothertongue emotional reactions – inscribe themselves into our skin.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n We listed an actual equity sale on Friday<\/a>, and we’re getting ready to do another one Friday next. I’m waiting right now to get the signed contract on a buyer side, also an equity sale. That much is good, since we have fared very poorly in ForeclosureWorld. But I just lost a buyer side that we need very badly, and I have not had any confidence that we can hold onto our own home for the past four years. Desdemona died<\/a>, Shyly died<\/a>, and Odysseus is making his last orbit around the sun. I’ve had family shit, and Cathy lost her father and is slowly losing her mother.<\/p>\n In short, I could wish for more triumphs and fewer tragedies. But the world you find is the one you’re looking for<\/a>, and the reality of my own life is that I have to make a conscious effort to remember pain as soon as it’s over. I love my life best when I’m too <\/a>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A couple weeks ago we got together with an old friend whom we had not seen in some while. She made a huge point of remarking that my appearance had not changed at all, which I dismissed as a kindly untruth, sweet but surely very far from being accurate. 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