yesterday, a couple of friends were having a private conversation that went on a long time. When they were done one summarized they just needed to compare notes about dealing with extraordinarily dire things in each other's lives and their attempts to grapple with despair concerning this ( Read more... )

In case anyone I haven't IM'd was left out, things in my current struggles are going surprisingly well.  More information as it is released

'The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the ( Read more... )

doing much better.  still some weirdness with Authority but I've decided to stop freaking out about it for details I'm not going to go into.  Worst case outcome looks livable if vexing.  But the important thing is how Spirt has woken up in a _big_ way on this trip and I seem to have learned how to stay in touch a bit better this time :)  and I'm ( Read more... )

I have a friend who feels he has a bad memory.  I'm not sure to what degree this is true, but he swears he seems to get less results than people he considers peers in school for the same hours in the same material.  But he has no technique at all to his work. He just read the chapter, did the exercises, and moved on to the next chapter.  I KNOW ( Read more... )

I read this blog of a commenter on a friend's blog, no one I normally know, no one especially close to my friend, either, I think...and it was an entry that for me was dominated by the blogger's hatred of what they went through in high school.  the bulk of the word count was about a more rational topic, but...it made me realize things have changed ( Read more... )

on one of my bus trips this summer, I crossed the border into the states sitting next to a French exchange student.  Her accent was fairly thick but her skill with English was phenomenal.  Something that I just remembered was that she was one of the most idealistic people I've met but the most practical ( Read more... )

I'd like to transfer money to a friend in the US regularly. Paypal will do this for the privilege of collecting interest on the money for a week on my end and a week on my friend's end. (how long they take to process moving money from a bank account to paypal account or back ( Read more... )

I remember that World War I was caused by everyone's mutual conviction they didn't have enough power and influence, and only a war would redress this intolerable state of affairs ( Read more... )

...I just realized the official video for the Kill Hannah lust outburst "Boys and Girls" has the irony of talking about young people getting close and getting ready for sex...and the only close up on two of these young adults making out around 0:20 you can't really tell which is the boy and which is the girl. And even for the close in shots are on ( Read more... )