accident prone » Uncategorized http://www.clintharvey.net everything you never wanted to know about Clint Mon, 13 Jun 2011 18:03:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4-alpha-19719 more like contact high http://www.clintharvey.net/20100819/more-like-contact-high/ http://www.clintharvey.net/20100819/more-like-contact-high/#comments Thu, 19 Aug 2010 21:10:00 +0000 scH http://www.clintharvey.net/?p=493

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]]> http://www.clintharvey.net/20100817/dear-facebook/feed/ 0 One time at [blank] camp http://www.clintharvey.net/20100710/one-time-at-blank-camp/ http://www.clintharvey.net/20100710/one-time-at-blank-camp/#comments Sat, 10 Jul 2010 19:56:25 +0000 scH http://www.clintharvey.net/?p=474 Listening to This American Life’s camp episode last week, originally aired 12 years ago, I started thinking back to my own child hood camp experiences. From the time I turned 11 or so I started going to at least one week long camp every summer. I’m pretty sure my mother used the one or two weeks I was gone during the summer as a personal vacation from motherhood, and with a son like me who could blame her?

Camp was a personal escape from me too. As a kid I never felt like I belonged, while friends seemed to always be easy enough to make I always felt like an outsider. For some reason those week long immersions in to a new social dynamic felt refreshing and allowed me to not worry about fitting in or being liked. Maybe it was the length of the camps that didn’t allow the complex groups to form that left me feeling so alienated at home, but whatever it was I felt like camp allowed me the freedom to be a different me. Not that I lied about who I really was, or became someone different, but that being able to let go of my insecurities and my doubts about being worthy of friendship and just be a kid.

Whether it was YMCA Camp in Boone or church camp in Guthrie Center with my friend Brad, or, in high school, Track Camp at ISU I always went away feeling that at camp I would be the kid that everyone wanted to be friends with. Strangely, or maybe not so strangely, while I still keep in contact with friends from high school I never made lasting friendships at camp. Maybe that says something about how real friendships are grounded in the sometimes hard real world, not in the fantasy of a week long vacation from oneself.

Did you ever go to camp? Were your experiences similar to mine or drastically different? I’d love to hear about your thoughts.

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My question to you loyal reader is, since I’ve been sans mac for quite a few years now, what are the must have apps that I might not know about? What apps make your life easier? I’m going to be giving aperture a try, but I’m not sure I’m awesome enough to justify $200 for it. What else am I missing out on to get the full mac experience?

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