Can I say how much work it must have taken ONE PERSON to grace the Biology floor with the Halloween spirit? I know it took a lot, because puttysan's said so, but you can't really appreciate her gift until you've seen it. (So go look ( Read more... )

I didn't expect it to work so soon. I'm not even sure I expected it to work. But the first morning after I spent more than an hour of the evening writing, I woke up with a delightful urge to go play piano. It was my REASON TO GET UP. I search diligently for RTGUs, so this was a pleasant surprise. And (that was yesterday) I was just as happy to ( Read more... )

Now watch me fly...

Or plummet to the ground.
Only time will tell.

I don't hate music. But as I told magicnme last night, it's a sort of balance in my mind; music and writing are the biggest things in my life (besides God), and for me to be happy, writing must take the forefront. If music is the looming priority, and writing the sideline, my soul gets sick. And since music has been dominating my psychic space ( Read more... )

I browsed five minutes at the library annual book sale, and happened to find Anne Lamott's Bird by Bird for fifty blessed cents... Professor Nordstrom's wife gave it to me for free, since they didn't have any change, and she wouldn't take my dollar. Of course she asked if I was an English major (no, but I want to write, I said). I think she'd be ( Read more... )

I'm all TVed out. Friday night I watched Jesus Christ Superstar for the first time (Andrew Lloyd Webber, I love you) with Marblefeathers, Magicnme, and JF. Saturday night Cerulean and WorldDominator threw a Johnny Depp marathon, since I'd never seen any Depp movies besides Pirates (swoons) and Edward Scissorshands--we watched Benny & Joon, ( Read more... )

Mostly because I just finished my physics test, and have four free days to look forward to. But also because I'm going to drop a class or two, and focus on what I really want to do. No telling, now.

In the news with merry ( Read more... )

On grief: I’ve wondered for a long time why I don’t cry at funerals (even for close loved ones) or feel grief when others go away. But I learned today that someone else feels the same way-she cries at little things but not the big ones. I’m considering whether it might simply be a different way of using one’s emotions. We just don’t use the tear ( Read more... )

Marblefeathers has TASTE. Here's more proof. She lent me a scifi novel, "Expendable" by James Alan Gardner. Speaking of humans given the choice of alteration plus immortality or sameness and mortality, it says ( Read more... )