Thanks Rosa.....

"An evil exists that threatens every man, woman and child of this great nation. We must take steps to insure our domestic security and protect our homeland."
Sounds exactly like President Bush today, right? Guess again. It was Adolph Hitler in 1922, writing about the creation of the German Gestapo ( Read more... )

"As [the will] is conditioned, but not rigidly determined by past events, it has a relative freedom. For example, the arising of anger need not lead on to angry behaviour, if a person becomes watchfully aware of it, so as to lessen its power. This is because the act of mindfulness brings about a change in the current conditions operating in the ( Read more... )

"...these beings continue to consume this earth-essence. It is their food, what they eat, and it shapes them. Those who eat a lot of it take on an ugly appearance, whereas those who consume only a little of it become good looking. And the ones who are good looking become contemptuous of those who are ugly. 'We are handsome,' they declare, 'and you ( Read more... )

Back at NU.
Apartment is awesome.
Roommates are awesome.
Mother is gone.
Placed into fourth year japanese.

Good things come in more than threes sometimes.

I finally got an FTP client on one of these computers, and after days of internet being crabby, I finally got some pictures on-line. So here is a sample of my life in the last month.
(PS. This is a VERY small sample).

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I'm sorry for the previous post, if you can read it. I really am having a good time here in Japan. I just have a headache today and yadda yadda yadda ( Read more... )

oh. my. f***ing. god.

I can't believe that happened.

Yeah.... I'm too easily amused as well...

Make your own sprite pic here.

Awesome.

I'm not even joking about this. Congress is considering a draft.

And you can't run to Canada, or be saved because you're a student.
Check it out

Oh yeah... I quit my a cappella group.

I still love all the people in that group, I'm just way too busy.
...and unfortunately, my heart isn't completely in it anymore.