ah, the drearily lovely winter months! quite possibly the most dissatisfactory temper (seasonally speaking) to appoint as a new beginning. stupid romans messed everything up with their mischievous calendar reform. sure, pope gregory iii reformed it further, but before caesar we still started in martius with the vernal equinox, so this particular ( Read more... )

'tis the night we bid good riddance to the fourth year of the dos mil... huzzaah! on a worldly scale, perhaps it was not the best of times, so this change comes with good welcome. on a personal scale, the past few hundred and sixty five-ish days played host to many a small victory, and chaperoned a good deal of modest accomplishment, so this step ( Read more... )

here we are again! another month is past, another month is present. the end of the year is growing ever more visible, and its immediacy somehow warrants reflection as to what led us here from where we were the last time it happened. it's that time again to juxtapose annual instances of ourselves and decide whether we've changed for better or for ( Read more... )

grittins, life juh nall! october is done and gone, with a nice snowy sendoff. november arrived to early disappointment, but i'll live (...hopefully). i tend to get a little grumpy around the holiday season, what with all the overwhelming commercialism and shallowness that makes itself abundantly obtrusive and such, but i'm hoping that my efforts ( Read more... )

well, well... if it isn't the old El Jay... in an odd change of pace, i've been fairly busy the past few weeks. it's nice to feel productive. i am for real in two bands now, as opposed to the being-an-acknowledged-member-but-not-participating-ever thing that i had going on before (and continue to have going on with 2 or 3 other bands...). ( Read more... )

hellooooo, livejournal! following the mood of the last month, september has indeed brought new responsibilities and a change of pace. a somewhat reluctant, but at the same time welcome sense of maturity has arisen to introduce the latter half of 2004. i suppose it's ultimately a good thing, but i think i will miss all the freeloading ( Read more... )

my brother is now off to school in california, leaving me as the last of my kind here at home... as i've been thinking about it, i realized that i have barely stayed in the same house for a week straight over the last ten years. in that time, i've spent more time at school and at work than i have at any of my homes (all seven of them). with that ( Read more... )

hey hey, livejournal, refuge for the faintest shades of emo my soul has to offer. well, a new month has arrived, and no matter how distant i may be from public school, it always carries with it an air of rapidly approaching responsibility. it ushers a foreboding horizon of fall and winter, and with those seasons, the decline and eventual death of ( Read more... )

i was browsing through some old scribblings of mine, and came across this rather schizophrenic rhyming structure thing ( Read more... )

greetings from Denmark.