A Day In The Life

by DShan on August 13, 2010

My day was hectic, as a meeting-filled day tends to be. When building a web product it’s hard to feel productive unless you’re nestled up to your computer. For good or for bad I feel a deep sense of urgency about our website and product right now so my senses are probably heightened a bit, and I get tense when I’m not feeling as if I’m getting shit done.

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Depressed? Not One Bit.

by DShan on July 29, 2010

I laughed and immediately realized that I’d made a lot of the idea that I don’t have friends in Vancouver, which is both untrue and a sentiment that I now realize is hard to address flippantly, especially when you have people who actually use your blog to try and get some insight into what the hell your life is like on the other side of the continent.

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Who Is This Guy?

July 12, 2010

I’m alone the other night, which isn’t all that weird, considering I’ve lived in this city for six months and we all know that once you hit thirty it’s different to make new friends. If you’re in Vancouver and I’ve met you please don’t take that to mean I don’t absolutely love you all. Everyone here is really, really incredible.

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The Generosity Of Friends And Family

June 29, 2010

My friends, though, have proven in the most tangible ways that our relationships really transcend the realities of the world and have their foundation in the purest form of friendship and support. They’ve literally stepped up for me. Understood (without judgement, I might add) that I’d taken risks that weren’t working out. Risks that in some ways affected them, which isn’t always a risk you have every right to take.

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What A Year

June 25, 2010

That meetup was the reason I took the reins on 20 Something Bloggers, something I’ve never regretted. It showed me the heart of a community that’s really changed people’s lives; something I’m proud to be involved in and continuously proud to talk about.

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The One About My Very Best Girlfriend

June 24, 2010

That was the thing; even when we were teenagers she was different. She was edgy and confident and averse to anything but her will. She is probably the reason I have ever felt the confidence to just trust my gut in the face of the most insane things it suggested. Over and over and over again I’ve heard people say things like “everyone wishes they were Chalise” when what they meant was “everyone wishes they had an intimate relationship with ignoring their inhibition and plunging into life to see what actually happens”.

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The Game I Care About

June 23, 2010
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A legion of support that so rarely happens in other sports; something so far from entertainment that you almost wouldn’t recognize it as even fun. Support for corners of the soccer world looks more a lifestyle than anything else.

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Great Songs Talk To You

June 16, 2010

There’s a shared experience when you really sit down and read something that someone else wrote. That someone else wrote thinking you’d be out there reading it. Not knowing much about you, but trying to share an experience with you or to share an emotion with you.

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The Stanley Cup Is Ours!

June 10, 2010
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If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!This makes me very, very happy.

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The Shake Idea

June 8, 2010
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At some point you reach this mode of fleshing out ideas pretty quickly, and finding the fatality in them. In short time you’ve dismissed the real viability of your idea, sometimes only because you know yourself well enough to know that someone else would be far better at nailing your great idea than you would. It just wouldn’t claim you the way other ideas do.

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