so i get promoted tomorrow.

that's cool.

and that's really about all the news i have.  my life currently consists of flying, working out, cooking, and reading, all in varying quantities, but all in seemingly high quality.  unfortunately, it's difficult to relate quality.  i keep talking with with friends to catch up on the phone and realizing ( Read more... )

i just wrote one of those emails/letters that an instant after clicking on the send button, even after spending 45 minutes picking over the contents of the thing, i wonder if it was the right decision.  hmm...

 presently reading Robert Hass' collection of poems, the first one refusing to leave my thoughts.  thought i would share it...

IOWA, JANUARY

In the long winter nights, a farmer's dreams are narrow.
Over and over, he enters the furrow.

my purring cat on my lap + sore muscles from a 415 deadlift (PR) + tired from a flight + expectations of sushi with friends at 8 + brief at noon tomorrow = me feeling pretty damn good

i have a picture of the lift, but i look ridiculous so we'll leave it on my computer where it belongs.

it's a nice evening - i think i'll go read outside for awhile.

 condillac considered touch the teacher of the other senses.  if you had to sacrifice one of your senses, which would it be? why?

2008, 24 year-old update.

A description of myself, by....myself, in exactly 100 words.

"Focused.  A fair-weather fan of solitude, die-hard for early, quiet hours.  Reserved, the level of which shows how much an opinion matters.  Knows the power of silence.  Prefers defending the ridiculous, dismissing the serious - often fails.  ( Read more... )

i keep having extremely vivid dreams, which are so weird and twisted that they almost always result in me waking up and loudly exhaling "what the fuck...?"  somedays they go so far that i call them nightmares, but i'm never in danger for my life - those mornings i always wake up sad.

this is very strange for someone who usually doesn't remember a ( Read more... )

 
I did this when I turned 22 and somehow missed it last year. I rather like the idea, so I thought it was a good time to bring it back.

23, by the numbers

2 - the number of times I dislocated my right shoulder

103.5 - the number of flight hours I accrued

38 - the number of books I read (this always seems painfully small)

400 - the amount of dollars ( Read more... )

 longhorn half ironman in october, austin, tx?

i think so.

http://www.ironmanlive.com/events/ironman70.3/longhorn70.3

i can only speculate why, because there seems so little in common, but kar wai-wong's 2046 trilogy destroys me anytime i watch the films, the last being the worst, being the best.

tonight i dream of heartache.