it has been awhile hasn't it ( Read more... )

I read this and felt the strange urge to share ( Read more... )

Your Existing Situation ( Read more... )

So, moving to Germany then.

It'll be about this time next year, so I'll be around for a while longer.

i can't get to sleep tonight.  for whatever reason, my heart refuses to stop racing while i try to slip away in my bed.  instead of counting sheep, i wonder why my body is still turning at at least 80 beats per minute, perhaps still trying to recover from the long run this evening ( Read more... )

grades  = done.  no more of that.

another month and i'll have wings and an assignment.

how about that?

I spent my Fourth of July in Alabama at my friend Eric's lakehouse, watching a thunderstorm mix with the fireworks around us.  We all agreed the storm outdid our paltry offering of burning magnesium and phosphorus.  Such is the struggle.

The next morning we awoke with dry mouths and red eyes, searching for a drink to equal the light and the width of ( Read more... )

i am usually slow to use metaphor when speaking or writing, more because i am interested in the truth being told, in penetrating exactly it is what i wish to say or find.  however, the other day, when asked how felt about my time in corpus christi, one uncharacteristically sprang to my lips.  replying to the question i said, "it's as if i've been ( Read more... )

good food and quiet mornings can do so much for me.

things have been busy lately.  flying once a day leads to spending over 20 hours in a plane a week, which under other circumstances would be enjoyable, but in this case mean that i spend 20 hours under the scrutiny of the man sitting to my right.  this can go two ways for me: the first is very, ( Read more... )

 1.  Dislocated my shoulder again, this time doing handstand pushups.  Muscles failed, shoulder slipped, my friends laughed at me and then took me to the ER.  My dad said I should stop doing things that aren't required to be healthy - I told him our definitions of the word were slightly different ( Read more... )