Love of life: returned.
Other things: better with this new perspective.

Just FYI, everything sucks.  My computer is broken, the backup laptop I've been using is broken, I'm sick, I can't smell anything so nothing tastes good, I am sick to my stomach with stress all the time, my friends and family relentlessly make fun of me, and the love of my life is disappeared ( Read more... )

Recent updates ( Read more... )

So this weekend I went to Krakow, Poland.  It was actually a really ridiculously cool city, and I had a really good time ( Read more... )

Okay, so we've gotta do something to fix society, or move it closer to the right track at least.  I just can't really decide what the first thing to do should be.  Food not bombs starting this summer.  Treehouse fort starting this summer.  Biking groups starting this summer.  But all of that is just recreational stuff, in my opinion ( Read more... )

Every day I get stronger, every day I figure a little piece of the world out, every day I learn and think and grow.  Sometimes the process of living itself surprises and excites me.  So many cells and tissues and organs firing and working in unison, all at my beck and call... and I am capable of influencing so much of my environment.  To be human ( Read more... )

Its a kind of magic ( Read more... )

What Privilege Do You Have?

Father went to college: no
Father finished college: no
Mother went to college: yes
Mother finished college: yes
Have any relative who is an attorney, physician, or professor: not a blood relative, but yes
Had more than 50 books in your childhood home: yes
Had more than 500 books in your childhood home: yes
Were read children's ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I didn't end up buying any of the badass consumer goods that I wanted to.  A good pair of army boots is apparently like 250 bucks.  Who knew?  And the knives they sell here are all either really amazingly top-of-the-line or more expensive than I could get them elsewhere, so that was out.  And I don't drink nearly enough, nor is it cold ( Read more... )

My neighborhood in Prague rocks.  From the Wikipedia article about it:

"historically a working-class district, and was sometimes referred to as "red Žižkov", because so many of its inhabitants supported left-wing parties"..."

Also, it's named after Jan Zizka.  Well, the Z's should have accents over them, but I can't figure out how to insert Czech ( Read more... )