It's a beautiful morning. I feel about %100 less sick after sleeping twelve hours (divided exactly in half by a well needed pee break). I just broke into the two pastries I brought back from China, both delicious. I'm on my third mug of green tea. I ate breakfast with chopsticks. There are no definitive plans for the day, there is a tentative ( Read more... )

I'm currently in an internet cafe in Shanghai, winding down and ready to leave China tomorrow evening. This has been an amazing trip, a life changing trip even. I've played the same orchestra program ten times in nine days. Spent more time traveling then anything else (including sleeping). Made a couple new friends, the good kind that will last ( Read more... )

It's the last day before China, my group departs tomorrow morning at five. I need to take a shower, get a haircut, pack everything into a backpack/suitcase, sign a lease for an apartment next year, and call home this evening. And return all my library books.

Sometimes in the evenings I come back here and feel really lonely. I have such a beautiful life and things always seem to work out one way or another. It's easiest to feel alone when there are lots of people around who have nothing to do with you, so that you're removed from and have no part in the bustle. I wish... I wish.... Is that ( Read more... )

In a splatter of inspiration:

If I don't jerk off soon I'll burst,
but I'm afraid it'll make my headache worse.
I should just go to bed,
no sense in hurting my head.

What have I gotten myself into? By new years day my face will have been seen by over 500,000,000 people. That's a little scary to think about. And the fact that for each of the ten concerts in China we'll be playing to a sold out house, and the fact that five of the concerts will be broadcast on television for a huge audience. And the fact that ( Read more... )

At the end of breaks I always dread the return of people to campus, it's the noise, I treasure the silence and peace that accompanies the departure of the general population. It would be lovely to have a house or apartment next year, so I wouldn't have to worry about the people in the next room (she has extremely loud friends, they talk loudly ( Read more... )

I just came to an especially poignant spot of Shosty 8 and was overcome with feelings of thankfulness ( Read more... )

'Kurt' at the computer store is going to die soon if he doesn't stop being a complete doofus. I drop the computer off, he takes it and gives me a reciept, I leave. The next morning when I'm out he leaves a message to the effect of... "Yeah.... I think I'll need you to tell me what's going on with, your computer, so I can do something for you." ( Read more... )

Yesterday was a gorgeous day sandwiched between two gray and soggy loaves of bread. I spent the majority of it on a white and pink one speed Schwinn bike, it made me feel like going for a bike ride every day of my life. I departed home about 9:30 to travel north a couple blocks to the store where I bought toothpaste ($.99, can't beat that) and a ( Read more... )