Maybe I'm wasting my shot at what amounts to life. But I dare people to say that they've had a more variable and meaningful experience... I've been rich, I've been poor, I've been comfortable, I've been scared for my life. I may be a horrible person, an asshole, douchebag, liar, lover, cheater, comfort, confidant, and everything in between. But ( Read more... )

I still read you all's journal postings, but I miss writing my own. Lots of things to talk about, but I can't really simultaneously, ROFL.

It's a good time, here, in Korea.

I swam 2.5k today, getting closer to that goal of 5k at least halfway, although at my current lap pace that would be almost 2.5hours of swimming including warmup/stretching. I started smoking regularly again during our most recent exercise (you may have heard a passing headline about it, lol.) and now I'm reining in my consumption to get rid of ( Read more... )

So far in my book he's 3/3 on his movies, with Donnie Darko, Southland Tales and now the Box. I haven't even finished watching the movie, but already it's really awesome and full of roller-coaster plot twists but all handled with an eye towards keeping everything grounded, even when it gets strange. Imagine LOST, but with the events playing out ( Read more... )

But I'm here to announce, "HAPPY 24th BIRTHDAY TO ME"

BOOYAKUSHAA!

So, for the remaining people who read this, if you care, just wanted to let you know that I've made it through and beyond my New Year's Resolution. The resolution was to not drink for the month of January, even a drop of alcohol. After the overnight "celebrating" New Year's, I decided not to drink for a whole month, after realizing that I had two ( Read more... )

So my sister is now on study abroad in the UK, and she had a rough time of it on her first day there. Apparently the other girl from Tech she traveled with got turned around at customs, which was unnerving, and when she got to the school she'll be studying at, she got a pretty drab welcome. Of course, now my family is having a four-way conference ( Read more... )

Swam 2.3k today. I need to push towards two hours of swimming if I'm going to see any results, but I suppose it's better than nothing, even if, weighing in before I started doing laps, I was back up in weight again; it's largely useless on my schedule to try and lose weight ( Read more... )

I don't know if anyone who reads this LJ reads Haruki Murakami, but that's what I'm going to write about anyway.

At the moment, as the entry title suggests, I'm reading South of the Border, West of the Sun, and I'm running into that same sensation that it seems every Murakami novel I've read gives me; an incredibly clear, palpable feeling that I ( Read more... )

I find that sometimes it's necessary for me to stay awake way past the normal time I go to bed, and then to feel shamefully, shitty, exhausted, and self-loathing for wasting the time I spent staying awake, as I did tonight. I'm not sure why that is, or what the function of such an activity is, but there you go.