"Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement. In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive. Ambition is only understood if it's to rise to the top of some imaginary ladder of success. ( Read more... )

Probably a new record for lowest interval of time between posts I've written in the last decade. I don't know why but after musing about who I used to be, I kind of went down the rabbit hole and looked at friend profiles on LJ to glimpse back on what our lives were like back then. It's funny because everyone's LJ died after a time (or was outright ( Read more... )

I was cruisin around textsfromlastnight.com and tons of those are hilarious, but I came across this little jewel, and it reminds me of something one of my brothers would say ( Read more... )

Are you gonna live your life wondering ( Read more... )

The whole PCAT experience is over. I scored close enough to my goal that I don't think I'm going to take that test again ( Read more... )

The test environment was not how I imagined it. It was well spaced out, and extremely comfortable. There were padded swivel chairs that kinda reclined so if I needed a moment to sit back, I got it ( Read more... )

Okay. Now my body is refusing to shut down. I have a feeling I will not be sleeping tonight. I've gotten through most of the materials presented in the PCAT 2007 book. However, I went to borders today to compare the 2 editions. Apparently in 2007, there was an update to the PCAT. Every section is shortened as well as the time alloted, there is more ( Read more... )

okkk ( Read more... )

Piano is amazing. I can sit there and play forever and not get bored. It's like a release. that or an incedible distraction from reality. The more you play, the better you get. Then the harder and more beautiful music that you can create ( Read more... )

Here is another random assortment of thoughts. No particular order or coherency. Just wanna see where I end up ( Read more... )