Today was officially a tough day. I don't exactly want to gripe about it, but don't exactly want to move on either. I feel a repeat of Saturday night coming on, but have neither the energy nor the inclination to indulge in that kind of emotional extravagance again so soon. I think that maybe I'm tired, but I don't want to sleep. I have sampled most ( Read more... )

I was thinking recently about the effects of adrenaline, because really, they are surprisingly complex. It's all the same chemical, but depending on the situation, I respond to it in totally different ways. Even the physiological component differs ( Read more... )

It’s creamy and I like it ( Read more... )

"One had to be patient to thrive in Rome, where time is measured not in centuries but in millenia, where patience and the long view have always distinguised political life. The city gave its name to the power of patience - Romanità. Romanità excludes emotions, hurry, doubt. Romanità waits, sees the moment and moves when the time is right. Romanità ( Read more... )

I just realized that I have already attended the last lecture at Brown for which I will receive credit. My Boston College net-id just came in the mail, and I can register for email now if I so choose. All that stands between me and graduation are 5 PDEs and 1500 words of German.

Good God!

What's up with that?!

hilarity from the files of a friend :-)
for the non-mathies out there, "μ" is pronounced "mu", that is, "myu" or "myew" or "myou".
(nerdily giggling rather extendedly)

1a) Mike: What do the physics villains say when they laugh?
1b) Ryan: μ-ahhaha

2a) Mike: Do greek cows say μ?
2b) Ryan: Wow, we are really a-μ-sing!

the intimacy of Mass consistently throws me as visceral innnnnnnnnnnnnn i breathe your lungs ( Read more... )

I am drinking cherry beer and waiting for a train. I find myself strangely unable to breathe. I have nearly eight hours, but somehow I know that I nevertheless am going to miss the train. Tomorrow, he and it and the dream will be gone.

and i'm so so so sad

i should never have let it get into my head

(today, you literally brought me spring)
(we sat in the sun until it was gone)

(still make me feel like a capital letter)

((still can't believe it feels like home))