At some point I gave up. I resigned to becoming normal, bland, uninteresting, flat. I stopped wishing, caring, trying, daring. I don't know when this happened, when I threw in the towel. Only there was no towel. Maybe my arm made the motion of throwing down this proverbial/imaginary/unseen towel after I let my hand fall after brushing my hair ( Read more... )

In my attempt to be passionate and to feel, I've concluded that attachments are necessary for the development of said states. What happened to the person who would throw themselves head-first into every endeavor? Maybe it has something to do with age. As a child, and into my adolescent years, I was willing to be spontaneous because I couldn't ( Read more... )

I'm a sap for musicians. I don't know many people who aren't. Maybe just in my circle of friends... Steven's song for me just made me glow. Listening to one of the Radiohead student's music makes me melt. ::sighs:: Now I'm in a swing of listening to quiet, cute songs such as Kings of Convenience. I'm looking for some Trembling Blue Stars ( Read more... )

The sconce project has been designed and depicted using Macromedia's Freehand. The project proposal and instructions have not been typed up and I haven't written anything for the second design I must submit. But, that's all I'm going to worry about tonight with ED 4. Wearing headphones too long has constricted my sanity, along with the hours of ( Read more... )

It's easy to say that this past week was the best week of my remembered life because I have short term memory issues. Nevertheless, I think it was great ( Read more... )

The problem with technology & depersonalization that results from progressby 159454 ( Read more... )

Cover songs are opportunities to make a good song better, or a bad song good, or a good song bad. Prince's "Nothing Compares 2 U" improved by Sinead O'Connor, Britney Spears' "Hit Me Baby (One More Time)" sounds awesome when sung by Fran Healy of Travis, 311 butchered The Cure's "Lovesong." Cover songs might not move the bar one way or another ( Read more... )

I needn't be concerned with others' lives and what they're doing and what I'm not doing. I should be focused on my life and those I really care about. Getting my priorities straight has been a weak point in the past. Tomorrow, I'm going to talk to an academic advisor about architecture. They closed at 12 PM today, contrary to the information ( Read more... )

Nhargh!, I say. It had to be said and hadn't been said and shall now be said again. Nhargh! Today is my mother's birthday. The annual celebration of the ... Actually, I don't want to get into that. Typically, I spend hours working on and perfecting a utilitarian, yet desirable gift for my mother. Surely, my dad already does a good job of ( Read more... )

"Etecie" means "narrator" in Elvish ( Read more... )