This week was pretty good, all things considered. The saving grace is always, always my friends. When I think back to what a good week I had, my personal accomplishments and the little things that made me laugh to myself (High On Fire - what the fuck kind of band name is that?) are typically second to the glowing interactions I've had with my peeps ( Read more... )

Disclaimer: This is technically cheating, because I'm not writing about myself or my life at all, here. I'm simply figuring out how to answer the prompt for this paper that's due tomorrow at noon in my Chinese topics course on service and retreat in pre-modern China. The specific questions, however, and my knee-jerk responses to them seem so ( Read more... )