i realize now that throughout my childhood and into my adult(still don't feel right using that word) life, weather, particularly storms, have influenced my perception of nature and the impermanence of existence. in California (4-8yo) we lived in the mountains outside of Lake Tahoe, the winter snowfall was deep and plentiful every year. one summer, ( Read more... )

i'm working this weekend. considering i haven't worked during a weekend for over a month now, i consider it fair play. at first i was really excited about having two fridays for 4th of July week, but i was not counting on how much it would SUCK TO GO BACK TO WORK ON THURS AND FRI!!! :P oh well. i spent my fourth on the beach. i failed my 'reapply' ( Read more... )

i had a lovely weekend a while back and wanted to share ( Read more... )

this may be more than obvious given my previous posts, but i've been going through a break up. the guy, while amazing, suffers from a case of vaguery due to wanting to hurt me less. the result is that he's been reinforcing my hope of things, and then the conflict comes because we are in different places. and now he will graduate (which i will ( Read more... )

Hadn't i compromised every fucking step? did you or did you not have all the control and power from the beginning? where is the mother fucking respect that i deserve in these final extractions? have fun with your midget (proud of the fact she resembles a 12yo. really?!), jap-o-phile (i never understood those people), wanna-be--i'm sure you'll have ( Read more... )

I have not had a substantive update in eons. it's hard to decide where to start ( Read more... )

the willow weeps ( Read more... )

I ate some of those fancy, cage-free, organic eggs that i have for making your pancakes. they were delicious!

ok, i'm going to get geeky for a sec: in Stargate SG-1, Samantha Carter is not only a brilliant astro-physicist, but is also a way kick ass lt. colonel in the Air Force and stunningly beautiful. :) Sam is always turning down alien men, fellow physicists, and gov't agents who hit on her. the one fellow that she would be interested in, Jack O'Neall ( ( Read more... )

ok, my last semester of law school was insanely busy. my trademark moot court competition was a huge success: my team took 3rd regionally, 9th in the nation, and we had the 5th best brief in the nation. this is up against ~15-25 schools per region (4 regions ( Read more... )