Ahh, it's time for me to become the old man who rants about having to walk uphill both ways in the snow for six miles to get to school each day ( Read more... )

I think I exist in perpetual pain ( Read more... )

I'm in the midst of packing and reorganizing my room as I'm moving out this friday, and as always, you learn a few things about yourself when you go through all of you're old stuff ( Read more... )

When you set out on the path to genius, you begin at the stage of idiot.

I visited a blacksmith once, in an old town in Virginia. I watched him ( Read more... )

so what am I doing up ( Read more... )

One day, I was signing up for a new message board, and I wanted a new internet handle to use, feeling that the old handle had too much associated with it. Previously to that, I had been using Ibn Batuta, after a player I met in Ultima Online one day, who named himself after the explorer, Ibn Batuta ( Read more... )

Thank you, sweetie.

I'm not overly fond of analyzing people through their childhood, but I must admit that introspectively it's a goldmind of material when it comes to evaluating how you got to be who you are today. There's a certain tendency I have to both live in the past, and dismiss it as entierly inconsequential to anything. The former resulting from issues that ( Read more... )

Most of my nightmares involve being chased by someone or something. All of them are nightmares specifically because in my dream, I'm in a situation where I'm helpless, and there is something bad that's going to happen at any moment and you go moment by moment wondering when it's going to strike. I don't know if this is how all nightmares run in ( Read more... )

I'm somewhat annoyed at the popular notions of suicide in America, and quite possibly Europe and other areas if they're similar. The phrase "Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem" is representative of this; the phrase is thrown around as if it's self evident and you don't find much discussion about it unless someone's trying to be ( Read more... )