i've always liked thunder and lightning storms. they have a special power unto themselves. the rolling of the thunder rumbles through the ground, the air, your body. the hard clap of the lightning with its sudden flash of brilliance illuminating the entire sky. now, add to this the gleam of a snow covered ground, and you have one hell of a ( Read more... )

so, after watching broken flowers a while back, i realized something. to truely get and appreciate modest mouse, i think you have to have an intamite understanding of west coast white trash. while modest mouse utlizes lyrics that pulls a lot from the upper cerebellum, its roots are intrinsicly tied to the white trash style of life. when you look ( Read more... )

ayyam-i-ha is now over, and the fast has started. or, as it is called in slovenia, post. it's half way through the first day of the fast, and well, i'm dealing with it quite well, actually. i've always kinda found it relatively easy to do the Fast, so long as i actually Fast, and not just mindlessly not eat. the spiritual significance of the ( Read more... )

today was a very busy day at the Baha'i Center. we had a visit from our new Councilor, Mr. Youseffian. Until recently, Slovenia had been under the jurisdiction of Dr. Sezgin, as he works in the states of the former yugoslavia and turkey. however, now that slovenia and croatia have seperated administratively, appearantly there was a feeling that ( Read more... )

went to venice again today. we were only there for a few hours, because our target was padova, and the ikea that is there. ikea is a strange place... after breezing through some sections, knowing exactly what we wanted in some, and copletely ignoring a few others, we managed to make it out of the place is just over 2 hours. appearantly, this ( Read more... )

so, just a few little things tonight ( Read more... )

i've said it before, and i'll say it again: one of the casualties of weight loss is your old cloths. while i've managed to cope rather well the increasing gap between the my old shirts and pants, i came across an interesting issue the other day. whilst walking through town, i noticed a slightly irritating tug at my waist. it wasn't really a tug ( Read more... )

today i'm gonna talk about food. 'cause, well, i'm eating lunch. lunch, which happens to be reheated jota that i made all by my lonesome. thing about jota is, you have to make a lot of it. and i mean a lot of it. it just doesn't work when you try to make a little bit. so, i had a rather gigantic pot full of soup, which i wasn't finishing ( Read more... )

ahh. the bowling alley. nowhere else does such a beautiful example of american decadency play itself out than among the lanes. a smoke filled cavern in which people absent-mindedly lob excessively weighted balls, three holes drilled in side them so your fingers will fit, down a long wood lined lane towards a triangularly shaped stack of pins. ( Read more... )

i'm not much of a fan of shopping. i really don't like the crowds, or the trying things on, or the searching through endless rows of pretty much the same damned thing. however, it has become rather nessisary for me to slowly peice together a new wardrobe. i've lost weight ( Read more... )