So I climbed a mountain...

[switzy]

To start, I finally got all my stuff worked out for getting back to the U.S. I'll be back in the U.S. the morning of the 15th (a Tuesday) and to Chapel Hill around 5 p.m. or so. I've been really stressed out about getting a flight back earlier than the 20th, so this comes as a big blessing. One of the guys here is staying an extra semester, so he's

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[living_metaphor]

a 24-hour layover in japan sounds like an opportunity as opposed to an obstacle. we shape our realities with our attitudes as we approach situations (cliche # 2,0--oh fuck it, it's just a cliche)

i hear you on the prayer thing. i've been doing some of that this summer for the first time in a long time. i'm still not so sure i'm just talking to myself, but i do feel better about myself afterward. and sometimes the only way i find an answer is if i quiet myself, and then all of a sudden the right thing is just there. and i can't explain it because i didn't come to it by an organized procession of logical deducement.

so sometimes i think god gave me the answer. BUT THAT DOESNT MEAN I TALK TO GOD! (richard seems to think i do, and that this makes me crazy. he's an existential atheist though, so we forgive him).

[living_metaphor]

But I'm of the opinion that we really can't give advice to other people about love and relationships. People have given me ton of advice, which I rarely listen to. Sometimes being smacked over our heads with mistakes really is the only way to learn.

that's so damn true. reminds me of that cliche: nothing worth learning can ever be taught.