Everyone's heard the wonderful quantum physics statement of "the act of observing changes the thing observed" in some form or another--it's the kind of sentence that writers and pseudointellectuals can really get behind. And, to be fair, there are moderately interesting philosophical ramifications to this...I just don't care. In the part of the ( Read more... )

I'm drunk right now, and listening to "Progressive Rock." Progressive Rock is the "highbrow" form of rock'n'roll music, which incorporates various classical influences, and involves lots of "nontrivial" music forms...so why is it that it's even more fun when I'm not in complete command of my mental facilities ( Read more... )

Near the beginning of summer, my maternal grandmother died. I haven't written about it yet, partially because I haven't written much at all recently, partially because it takes time to really put into perspective the life of someone so near and dear to my heart ( Read more... )

Oftentimes in my life, I've found myself asking the nonsensical question of "why is it now?" Then after a moment I try to ponder about it, but immediately realize that it's silly--the question was asked *then,* not *now,* so why should it have been now back then in the first place ( Read more... )

I just thought I'd take a little time to muse on the phenomenon that is Harry Potter, and how it's touched my life.  I promise to say nothing spoilerific about the last book, because I definitely don't want to ruin anyone's enjoyment of it.

As far as HP fandom goes, I fall into what I think is the "usual boat."  I certainly didn't read Rowling's ( Read more... )

Just a quick post, for reasons soon to be obvious.

Just bought HP7! Woohoo!

Am still running 100% on meeting really fun hot guys and getting their phone numbers during HP release parties. And this time I got the courage up to talk to him instead of being introduced by a friend. :)

Life is good. Must read book cover to cover. Love to the

It's been a long time since I've posted. The end of the semester was pretty busy, things got in the way, there was a period in the middle of June where I really just had no thoughts worth writing down...and of course, my computer crashed. Crashed HARD. Crashed in a way that I personally call "Quantum Existence Failure." Something about the ( Read more... )

Ah, summer...a time when sheer boredom will sometimes induce me to do things I wouldn't normally do, and then find to my deep embarrassment that they're actually pretty decent things to do. Such as, to pick an example *totally at random,* buying a copy of XY magazine ( Read more... )

I just finished writing the rough draft of a play--the first real fiction I've written in far too long ( Read more... )

I'm just writing this down on LJ so I'll know that this isn't a dream when I wake up in the morning. Because frankly it's more surreal than many dreams--even mine, which sometimes involve explaining heterosexuality from an engineering point of view ( Read more... )