As many other things I start, I realized that the 'book philosophy' thing just doesn't make sense. What does make sense? I don't know. Life usually doesn't, so it would follow that most things in life rarely make sense, right?

So, at the moment, I'm sitting down and thinking about where I want my life to go, what I want to do with my life. It's a ( Read more... )

Well, so much for that. I completed the book. I am not inspired, I am not enthralled: I am despondent. And not because such hopelessness still occupies the world, not shame for some cause or another, no heartstrings tugged by this bleak landscape, nothing. Just depression: how can people who love literature and history so much be so terrifically ( Read more... )

I had decided to give last night to myself as a "treat." Seems the universe decided to, too. It was one of those nights that ended up just seeming lucky. Most notably, I was aimlessly wandering around in a town between where I work and where I live that I don't know particularly well, just to walk around and enjoy, and I happened to stumble onto ( Read more... )

I decided I don't like the definition of urbane as "refined, polite, sophisticated." If we look at the latin it came from ("urbanus"), that's not what it means... and in modern english, "urban" certainly doesn't always mean refined, polite, sophisticated. I want a word that means in love with the city. Sophisticated, sure, but cities aren't always ( Read more... )

So here we have it. A year later, and I'm maybe, just maybe, back alive enough to update this thing more regularly ( Read more... )

This summer is going to rock.

And! I dyed the bottom ~4" of my hair blue.

Also, I love y'all.

I feel so unreal when I'm in classes, or doing most things related to classes for that matter, anymore. Which is kind of sad... even if I never particularly enjoyed classes, at least I was fascinated by a lot of the stuff I could learn. Blah. At the moment, the only class of mine I'm really fascinated by is Traditional Chinese Medicine, which is a ( Read more... )

I hate him for every moment he says "forever."

Random facts about me that have come out in the past couple days, that have amazed people ( Read more... )

GAACK!

SO MANY PROFESSORS INSISTING THAT I CALL THEM BY FIRST NAMES!!

(raised... too conservatively... for this... and not even like, full first names - like, familiar nicknames; "Val," "Penny," "Liz" x.o ... I suppose that's one sign I'm not in the hard sciences anymore...)

GAACK!

*dies*