So it is the night before my first day as a grad student.  Okay, well really just the orientation to being a grad student.  However, I’m still just as freaked out!

On one hand I can’t believe I’m actually doing this; it’s what I’ve always wanted!  On the other, what if I fuck up?  Now mind you, this is not one of those “legitimate” fears.  Oh no, I ( Read more... )

I know it's been a while since I have posted but the days of long silences are almost over!  I am moving to a place, a mecca in fact, that offers high-speed internet so I can reattach myself to the Internet!  I am going to Columbus, Ohio to work on my M.A. in East Asian Art History.  I just wanted to let you all know that I am not dead and that I ( Read more... )

Turn away from mischief.
Again and again, turn away,
Before sorrow befalls you.

Set your heart on doing good.
Do it over and over again,
And you will be filled with joy.

-Dhammapada 117-118

This is a copy of an email I sent to a possible new friend explaining the importance to me of the Auryn and ‘The NeverEnding Story.’

Spiritual implications:

Here goes (I normally don't care what people think, but this is weird). . .

The first philosophical thought I can remember having happened when my sister (7 years older than me) explained ( Read more... )

I have a lot that I want to cover.  These are the notes so that I don’t forget to mention them: family, friends, money, school, work, John Cusack and my life in general (in general, you say, what else is there?).

First, the family and money categories kinda go hand in hand.  My grandfather has been funding my life lately.  Twice in one month he ( Read more... )

Title: Random Thoughts ( Read more... )

So Jerry Orbach is dead.  I hate the world.  I'm doing well and have had one of the best weekends of my life!  I went to see a great movie and then went to a great Christmas Party.  “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” was amazing!   I haven’t seen an adaptation of a book to film this well done in quite some time.  The director, Andrew Adamson, ( Read more... )

One giant leap for mankind ( Read more... )

Jerry Orbach played the voice of Lumiere in Disney's "Beauty and the Beast!"

So basically everything is good.  I shouldn’t be on the computer right now; it’s thundering and lightening like hell! I’m hoping my cd will finish burning first.  I guess I making it, hanging in there and all.  I’m almost done and most of my homework is finished thanks to profs that give me much needed extensions.  I’m so ready for the holidays.  I ( Read more... )