Everything is so clear when it's cold. The air bites, slices like a glassy knife, but it isn't unpleasant. The fog that I've been in all day, from a pretty severe lack of sleep, was dissipated almost instantly as I walked outside and began to run, replaced by a clean, fluid energy. The sky was brilliantly clear, and the stars were visible like they ( Read more... )

Wind ( Read more... )

Originally had an angry, stressed entry about the unnatural prolonging and intensity of my research for what I went into it to do, but thought better of it and am instead giving you two book recommendations:

Summer of my German Soldier, by Bette Greene, and

Bridge to Terabithia, by Katherine Paterson ( Read more... )

As the days roll on, I begin to see how completing everything I have to complete without either going bonkers or...well, not completing it...is possible. When I really need it, I apparently have an Express Time Management mode that delays not a second and lays waste to entire fields of homework and research in hours. Problem is, it's hard to snap ( Read more... )

When you're shopping in a true Asian market, beware. There is absolutely nothing that they will refrain from eating. A can of beverage that says 'honey aloe' will, almost certainly, have huge chunks of aloe vera plant floating in a solution of water, sugar, and honey. I saw a can that bore only the legend 'grass,' but I didn't get that one. However ( Read more... )

Gainesville residents, if you haven't yet taken advantage of the world-class natural history museum and Lepidoptera (all the species contained therein are true butterflies) exhibit at the Univesity of Florida, I definitely suggest you do so. To take a break from my work today, I wanted to do something 'natural,' but felt that with my very limited ( Read more... )

If you hadn't already read it, it really wasn't worth the ten seconds.

It seems as though dancing when I'm not injured or exhausted will...wait for it...show a great improvement in my dancing! Who'da thought? This means that I'll have to run only Saturday-Wednesday and take a break Thursday and Friday, and be even more diligent with what I'm eating, but the feeling that people actually seek me out to dance because I'm ( Read more... )

It seems as though my life has picked up a wee bit. (Understatement) I'm not complaining; in fact, being very busy rather than slightly busy actually makes me a far more productive and positive person, relatively, than I would have been otherwise. That's what needs to happen; I need to get so very busy that I don't even have time to whine and throw ( Read more... )

These are three species that I've come into frequent and curious contact with recently, photographed, and developed somewhat of an affection for. When I see a Gulf Fritillary butterfly now, I think, "You know, I'm probably the only person to see that butterfly all day that knows anything about it," and that makes me feel (slightly silli-ly) more ( Read more... )