Ruhee Dewji

September???!!?!

July was such a packed month—I’m exhausted but for entirely great reasons.

What the hell, July is half over already and I’m finally looking backward at June… it was such a full month, I feel so blessed!

Another friend of mine passed away in late May.

I felt sluggish, disinterested, adrift, dissatisfied this month.

Hello!

Somehow January felt like it lasted a million years but I barely remember February happening at all.

Man, January felt a trillion weeks long, didn’t it?

The singular Dan McQuade passed away this week.

I’ve been gravitating toward having a single longer-form thought at the beginning of these retro posts, and then throwing some grab-bag items in afterward.

In my “stuff I’m looking forward to” last week I mentioned Rogers v.

I got a really nice comment about the retro posts the other day: these posts bring me back to the early-aughts-blogspot days, I think they’re great!

I waffled a lot about what to include in retros, and eventually waffled about writing retros at all, because I’m always re-evaluating how much to share about myself online.

After a brief interlude we’re back on the retro train over here!

“…Remember that if there is to be drama in your life somebody must pay the piper in the coin of suffering.

This retro was meant to happen on September 28, but that day I ended up being a little busy: As these things sometimes go, the baseball just kept on happening, and the Jays kept on going, and now I’m writing weeks late before they play game 6 of the ALCS,…

The other day, a key broke off of the little low-profile keyboard I’ve had for four and a half years.

I’ve long enjoyed Jenn “hotter and smarter” Schiffer’s weekly retro posts, so much so that I’m going to try doing them myself.

Let me tell you about something that happened to me recently.

This year, I read: Elise Hu - Flawless: Lessons in Looks and Culture from the K-Beauty Capital Culturally fascinating!

Last year, I read: Andy Greenberg - This Machine Kills Secrets (audio) Kyle Chayka - The Longing for Less Aubrey Gordon - You Just Need to Lose Weight (audio) Don DeLillo - Pafko at the Wall Walter Álvarez - T-Rex and the Crater of Doom (audio) Andy Green…

Let’s revisit something I wrote in June 2017: First blog posts are awkward.

I’ve never had a year like this one.

My main non-day-job gig right now is playing in a live karaoke band, simultaneously the most fun and most difficult gig ever.

There’s this weird thing that happens when you get over the first few bumps in a beginner learning curve and your muscle memory starts taking over, like you’re suddenly having an out-of-body experience, observing yourself doing things without any input fr…

First blog posts are awkward.

(imported from tumblr) “Meaningful games,” we said a lifetime ago—“we just want games to mean something.

(imported from tumblr) There were two times in the span of the past week when I sat in my seat at the Rogers Centre during a game started by Cole Hamels and Marcus Stroman and wished for death.

(imported from tumblr) Every time the Blue Jays play the Kansas City Royals my brain gets thrown for a loop.

(imported from tumblr) I never knew Roy Halladay as a Blue Jay.

(imported from tumblr) The Blue Jays played their 162nd game of the season yesterday.