"Days and months slip by, so long in prospect, so short in recall; you flip over the leaves of your calendar, day by day, week by week, and with the speed of a dream the year's end confronts you."

I'm done with college classes and it terrifies me how fast the year has gone.  I'm terrified of losing the memories and experiences I've had, and letting ( Read more... )

Doing some reflecting on the past year, and the upcoming changes when I graduate in May and become a real person.

Last year's resolutions, and a response:

#1: be better at making decisive choices.
#2: (relating to that) don't say yes to everything in a way that makes the commitment to everything half-assed and at the expense of myself
These I want to ( Read more... )

I'm in Japan for the summer.  Keeping a chronicle of adventures over there during my studies at another blog, http://elliotatyale.blogspot.com.  Won't be touching this one for a while.  It is silly to have multiple blogs but that one is read by a much wider audience.  I kinda miss the ( Read more... )

End of junior year.  So, I'm a senior in college now?  Whoa.  Putting these things in fractions always scares me.  My suite of 6 buddies is splitting up-- two are freshmen counselors, one is taking a year abroad in Taiwan, two are living together in JE proper, and I'm living off campus in the Sigma Chi house.  It's sad that this group is going ( Read more... )

Tonight, I think I accidentally just went on a double date with my gay professors.  We talked about titties and dinner parties.

At what point does commitment to an ideal become just foolish?  For the second time in as many months, I've screwed up a relationship because I'm committed to being honest and forthright.  Were I content to stop overanalyzing everything and attaching too much emotional significance and able to shut my own damn mouth, I'd be getting significantly ( Read more... )

As a personal tradition I've had going for several years, I've put New Year's Resolutions up on lj so that I could hold myself accountable to them, and at year's end, rank myself on each while manipulating the numbers in such a way so as to prove mathematically that I am significantly more awesome than I ever dared to be before.

Be better at picking ( Read more... )

I was playing with the YPMB at a Menorah lighting ceremony on Monday. Days beforehand, the Rabbi sent us the melody lines to a couple classical Jewish songs that he wanted the band to play. We needed to turn the single-melody lines into a 9 part arrangement for the marching band, and I volunteered to arrange one of the songs. But all I had was a ( Read more... )

Silly adventures in lighting update form ( Read more... )

I miss having regular updates here, purely for the reason that I then miss out on the opportunity to look back at the absurd collections of things I've done.  IN BRIEF ( Read more... )