Flying back to California in the morning. Triumphantly returning to Santa Cruz on Thursday. Semester ends on Monday.

This is a case of overlapping brackets.

Current recurring stress dream: Sitting on some cliffs above a beach, watching airplanes drift out of the fog and crash, almost gently, into the ocean.

The phrase "to wit" is both Germanic in origin and pleasingly pedantic. There need be more phrases like that.

Oh yeah, this place exists.

Life is mostly good. Classes are fine, but they are keeping me busy enough to leave little in the way to report here. At least unlike the last couple of years, the work load is manageable, and I actually have some room to breathe and feel almost human. I miss mintyfreshsocks more than most people here would like to hear about, but at ( Read more... )

I realized that I had not listened to Goblin in a while. Their strange prog rock instrumental style called to mind some similar work by Änglagård, who, I discovered, I am now very suddenly able to appreciate. Their lengthy winding songs put me in the mood for Voyage 34 by Porcupine Tree. Of course, huge portions of that are a direct homage to Pink ( Read more... )

( If you know what this might represent, you know I'm in trouble )

I walked into a 7-Eleven tonight on my way home from the Haymarket to buy some milk. It was as though my mind was suddenly picked up and cast back into the road trip, for just a few minutes. The bright florescent lights and the smell of cheap coffee, the rows of preservative-packed snacks in mylar bags, the disaffected attendant behind the counter ( Read more... )

Tonight is one of those muggy nights where the mind will not rest in spite of the body.

I have made it to my new home in Northampton, Massachusetts.

I have a lot to write about, which I will save for when I am more well rested. However, one question resonates very strongly with me right now:

Why, oh god, why have I never been to the Northeast before today?

I have had far too much to drink tonight. Thank you, Madison, Wisconsin, for being pretty fucking awesome.