Something has gone out (again) on the left side of my spine, near the base of my shoulders. My suspicion, based on timing and the mechanics of the thing, is that it has something to do with dive rolls and possibly is either the cause of or caused by the distinct asymmetry of my left- and right-handed rolls -- that I'm either doing something wrong ( Read more... )

You Are An INTP
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 I have this idea floating around in my head that I'm not particularly satisfied with but can't seem to get any further progress on. The brief description is -- I seem to spend a lot of time second, third, and fourteenth-guessing my potential actions in certain social situations, with the result that often times I find that I erred on the side of ( Read more... )

 "If you wouldn't say it in person, don't say it online ( Read more... )

 So at... a fairly early hour of the morning... I walk down to the Civic Center to (hopefully) catch the bus back to Golden. Thing I'm noticing about public transportation in the downtown area is that once you've made the ride of significant length, riding vs. walking is essentially a wash -- i.e. you can either wait 15 minutes for a bus that will ( Read more... )

While I was hanging around in the Student Development office on Friday, I happened to notice that their lending library included Quenk's Beside Ourselves. Naturally, I pounced upon this book with an enthusiasm usually only seen in starving tigers.

The book is basically an expanded description of the concept that under stress, a person will fall ( Read more... )

I'm half-done with the backgrounding on ye olde oak leaf wallet project. Once I've got that done, I think I'm just going to do some decorative cuts for the acorn shells and possibly some minor touching-up things, and then move on to finishing. The pattern calls for a lot more stuff with lined pear shaders and decorative cuts on the leaves ( Read more... )

On my mother's side of the family, I have five great-uncles of whom four served in World War II (the fifth was a polio survivor who was significantly handicapped). They all survived the war, although all of them have since passed on. Here's what I know of them:

K, the youngest of the brothers, joined the Marine Corps because he thought they had the ( Read more... )

Can't sleep, hence might as well be random and cryptic ( Read more... )

Crikey.

Halfway through the semester is not the time to discover that the assigned textbook is utter shit. Although I suppose it's a good time to discover that as opposed to discovering that I am a complete moron...