I'm an overzealously bland person. I stay in school, never get in trouble, and NEVER would do something reprehensible as ditching, right ( Read more... )

I'm alive, just in case anyone was wondering.

BIG FAT EDIT: Please don't feel bad for me, guys. I seem to have made several people worry for me, and that's the last thing I want. I'll be fine. Thanks for the thoughts, though.

First of all, Happy Everything and Anything and All That Jazz. I know, I should've posted them as they came, but I decided to just wait and kill about a dozen birds with one stone. Because I'm lazy. heck, the only reason I'm posting now is because someone who shall remain nameless (but have my gratitude for kicking me off my ass) told me he wanted ( Read more... )

Halfway there, and all in one (slightly tenderized) piece.

Happy Veteran's Day, All.

I am making a staff for my stature. It's still very rough and green. I tore up my hands in its bark, and my muscles practicing with it. It's slightly off balance, about 3 times as thick as a normal staff is, and twice as heavy. It fits me perfectly. It is elm wood, Russian elm, to be exact. Tough, stringy and hard, I know it will outlive me if I ( Read more... )

Marduk and I were talking about dreams last night, especially those creepy precognitive ones some people get. We had some pretty big questions and some pretty cool answers in all. "Why do we?" "How do we?" "If this is all predetermined, do we have free will?". And we agreed that we think animals are more sensitive to it, because they don't have a ( Read more... )

Should I try to decide which aches more, or should I just flip a coin ( Read more... )

The only change from a scientist to one who imagines is to substitute "Why?" with "Why not?"

There is a great deal of hatred in this world. All I can promise to prevent is my share.

Went to the local fair today. We didn't enter anything and now that I saw what would have been our competition I feel kind of bad. Last year we had a clean sweep of plants and vegetables, so we decided not to enter anything this year. The result? The winners were sad. SAD. The winning sweet alyssum was a single, forlorn stalk that I could have beat ( Read more... )