i officially have the plague. so you may or may not see me tomorrow (today).

as i have already prologued my day, it seems wrong not to continue, especially since my mind does, unabated ( Read more... )

well, you can be relieved. duke has no graduate studies applicable to me at this point in my life. ah, well.

i decided today that i may have gone to the wrong college. i will ever love my gamecocks, but today i went to a vespers service at duke university, and it was quite possibly one of the most beautiful things i have ever experienced... and much needed. there's something about candles, gothic architecture, the cascade of the pipe organ playing, the ( Read more... )

i guess the reward that i get for a fantastic weekend is to get sick (AGAIN) on monday. this time it even includes aches. indeed, i am favored among men by germs and viruses alike ( Read more... )

so lent begins today. it's supposed to be about repentence. so rather than pride myself on how long i can go without chocolate or drinking or whatever (as noble and healthy these efforts may be)... i'm going to give up acting like God isn't there and actually approach Him. this could be the most difficult lent ever.

so i shook John McCain's hand today and asked him, on behalf of 4400 spartanburg residents and 5 million americans living with alzheimer's, to consider increasing government funding to alzheimer's research to find a disease-altering medication NOW before medicare is bankrupted by the disease. he said he supported it, that a few of his dear friends ( Read more... )

...thanks to a little inspiration from the hub city writers. if you by chance know their judges, please preserve my anonymity. but i wanted to share my latest personal essay. a long-time reader/my best friend said that my tone is less dreamy and more towards dry humor than it used to be. i think that's an accurate reflection of the ways my life ( Read more... )

lj is great, but even better are friends with whom you can wax philosophical... hashing out thoughts, doubts, and fears, with no threat of a too-easy answer. thanks for that. love you guys.

perhaps best, though, is the incredible smallness you feel once it's all out on the table. i think that's how we're supposed to feel in the face of forever.

so i woke up yesterday remarkably able to both breathe and speak (today not feeling quite so good, but that's okay because the ice kept me home anyway), and i went to all of my appointments in Union. it was cool. and i could see things starting to come together. or at least how they could come together, and how exciting that was ( Read more... )