I put on BT while studying today and within about two minutes was in a flashback mode to burning man. It is amazing how music so closely associated with an event or time can evoke its corresponding memory when you play it.

I can almost taste the dust in my mouth, choking my lungs as i put on my L-wire coat and hiking boots to tour the playa. Dusk ( Read more... )

I broke down last night and took sleeping medication. The nights during the past week have left me restless and wound up. I’ve drank too much and not exercised nearly enough. I’ve become pudgy (for me) and snappish.

The results last night were good, however. I slept incredibly well and woke up this morning very relaxed. That is despite the ( Read more... )

Normally I'm a pretty cynical person and no doubt i could come up with all sorts of reasons why i think of thanksgiving as being somewhat hypocritical and far too self satisfied. But I've been there.

It has become a cliche to ask people to remember how lucky they are. As my more idealistic side asserts itself i am tempted to articulate exactly how ( Read more... )

                We have spent the past few classes on religion and the first amendment. Religion throws most liberals for a loop because they find themselves on the opposite end of freedom and they’re not quite sure what to do about it. I find it a little disingenuous that one can argue for liberalization of sex and pornography while at the same ( Read more... )

November 25th

It is snowing outside. Forecasts project up to an inch accumulation, but I’m not expecting that much inside the city. The bike ride to and from class has become bitter and chill. I walk more and more each week. I walked today. Even the walk to school helped, and I feel substantially less anxious. The exercise was good. I suspect the ( Read more... )

Last night I dreamt that I had been diagnosed with cancer. It was a chance to see myself and how I might react to such real issue. I don’t buy into dreams as anything more than the firings and misfiring of a mind grappling with and coming to a resolution about life. Yet dreams are prompted by things internal to the mind and, give that reality, it ( Read more... )

I’m pretty much addicted. I bought fallout 3 last week and have probably racked up a good 20 hours playing it. I let myself get sucked in to an immersive RPG. This was precisely why I never got involved with WOW.

I suppose it’s not terrible. It’s just that though I haven’t quite dropped the ball on any key issues, I’m certainly not where I would ( Read more... )

For the INTP, it is extremely important that ideas and facts are expressed correctly and succinctly. They are likely to express themselves in what they believe to be absolute truths. Sometimes, their well thought-out understanding of an idea is not easily understandable by others, but the INTP is not naturally likely to tailor the truth so as to ( Read more... )

November 11th, 2008

It is always difficult to know how much one varies from the “normal” even though, of course, there is no “such” thing. But it is petty to quibble about the fact that no single normal person exists. Clearly there is a normal curve and a collective of people who have far more in common with each other than they do with the ( Read more... )

It is sunday evening and i'm sitting at my computer procrastinating again. The temperature outside is a biting 35 degrees or so and the windchill takes it down further. I am glad to be inside but i wish the insulation in our house was better. My room is perpetually a little cold.  Last night was a little exhausting and I spent much of the morning ( Read more... )