I don't know if it's hormones or vitamins or the fish oil...

but I was asked out on three separate dates in the span of about 36 hours.

This is all very weird.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7193161.stm

And things get complicated as usual.

Despite bragging about how I don't do (read: need) New Year's Resolutions, I really do because I am a noncontributing member of society and don't plan on contributing anything soon and like it that way. I also have no self fucking control.

Slacker creed? Maybe.

Zen Buddhist? Preferred.

A great Empire created a map that was so detailed it was as large as the Empire itself. The actual map grew and decayed as the Empire itself conquered or lost territory. When the Empire crumbled, all that was left was the map.

So sometimes life seems like a cheesy badly-lit Japanese romantic drama and last night was one of those nights for me. Bizarre in its perfection and unreal. When I woke up four hours later I really did think it was all a dream. And then trying to figure out the causal links made life seem so disorganized, no method, no rhyme, no reason, and for ( Read more... )

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/10/a-pay-toilet-opens-no-need-to-hold-everything/index.html?hpRead more... )

Rowan, a friend from Smith, came over last night and we hung out and through my conversation with her I realized some things. It's kind of annoying that my moments of enlightenment usually occur in conversation ( Read more... )

It was revealed that Mother Teresa, beginning in 1948 and continuing until the end of her life in 1997, was unable to sense the presence of God. “Repulsed-empty-no faith-no love-no zeal,” she wrote. “Heaven means nothing.”

"Whatever became of the moment when one first knew about death? There must have been one. A moment. In childhood. When it first occurred to you that you don't go on forever. It must have been shattering, stamped into one's memory. And yet, I can't remember it. What does one make of that? We must be born with an intuition of mortality. Before we ( Read more... )

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