Jeremy's journal gave me an epiphany just now. I realized that the whole time that I've been saying I'm agnostic, I've never really meant it. I've never been firm about my being agnostic, but not because I was totally indifferent, but rather because I hadn't yet become inspired to learn about the religions of the world. So all this time I've said I ( Read more... )

Current summer goal status ( Read more... )

Yes, as some of you know, I went to Japan last week for a one-week homestay that I won from the Michigan Japanese Language Speech Contest back in March. Really, my words can't do justice to the trip, but I had one of the funnest, most memorable times of my life, not to mention it also rekindled my previously waning interest in Japan and even ( Read more... )

Cattell's 16 Factor Test Results
Warmth ||||||||||||||||||||| 62% Intellect |||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 86% Emotional Stability |||||||||||||||||||||||| 74% Aggressiveness ||||||||| 30% Liveliness |||||||||||| 34% Dutifulness |||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 86% Social Assertiveness ||||||||||||||| 46% Sensitivity |||||| 18% ( Read more... )

From an AIM conversation ( Read more... )

Just wondering, what's going on, guys? Let's be friends. The comments in Carrie's journal were ridiculously uncool - I felt like it was partly an attack on me - and I'd appreciate it if the perpetrator shared his or her identity.

Justin

I hope I'm just having a bad day. I haven't felt so... worried, so uncertain, so confused in such a long time. In fact, I don't remember the last time I've felt this way ( Read more... )

Honestly, I don't feel like typing it all out, but Carrie brought it up earlier tonight: "It seems like you take a lot of crap from your friends," she told me. And it hit me then that she was right ( Read more... )

Not Summer Teeth, but that's a fantastic Wilco album nonetheless.

Anyway, my summer goals (I don't really remember what I wrote before, and I'm not too concerned):

• Read.
  Carrie really has shown me the wonder of books. I'm still not won over by fiction, but I have been reading lots of "nerd books" (according to her) and I feel like I've been ( Read more... )

What happened to music as timeless art? Was it the advent of rock'n'roll? Something happened before my time to degrade music into a lowly, disposable, commercial "art" form. I don't know what it is, but it disgusts me. Have a look at this week's top 3 singles in the UK ( Read more... )