Vaughan Williams' Mass in g minor may just have caused me to go home and look up the form of eleison. Hush, vos omnesToday has been slow and quiet and relaxing. Maybe too relaxing? Went to class, became scared of the army of fourth-year-female-NMC-specialists in Anc. Egyptian Lit in Translation, got a headache and left early, and then saw Narnia ( Read more... )

Okay. So I think I'm done with friends-only-ing my posts. We'll see how this goes ( Read more... )

I think the highlight of my new years came around 12:30, maybe 1:00, in the morning. I had just been handed a very swanky martini - salted rim! lemon-zest garnish! - and my friend Benji, being impressed, asked to have a sip ( Read more... )

I'm happy today, because I've learned that my favourite small child is coming to visit us tomorrow. More accurately, her family is coming into Toronto from Ottawa for a few day, and they're also coming over for dinner tomorrow. Also coming over for dinner are the parents of a friend of mine from grade 4 - we were friends in that terribly ( Read more... )

I'm done ( Read more... )

This morning, dark and early at 6:00 AM, I found myself sitting in my friend's kitchen, a this point sober, talking to the only other person still awake. It had been an eventful early morning, starting at 12:15 when we wound our way to The Fox and the Fiddle, continuing on with drinking and karaoke, and was finally winding down, following a drunken ( Read more... )

Briefly:

An x-ray, tracing
Thick strong lines of blood, coursing
Through a heart, healing
where had been nothing - Point being
He's okay

Also something about five hours
duration and stress
lasting damage
...
But I couldn't really listen at that point
instead looking up
watching green lines across a screen
still irregular - shiver

I mean, everyone has heart attacks, right ( Read more... )

Saturday. December. Third. Two Thousand and Five. Half past seven.

Thomas Tallis.

Spem in Alium.

Forty part motet?

I think yes.

What do YOU think?

I've been holding off writing entries because I don't think I'll ever be quite so succesful at portraying exactly what I feel as I was with that last post. Even if it was - and is - depressing as hell ( Read more... )