So much has happened in the past few days that it is difficult to describe. I've met a bunch of really cool people, gotten a bank account and a commuter rail pass, embarrassed myself several times with poor use of japanese, and generally had a good time. The sheer variety of people that I have met has been incredible - people from North Carolina ( Read more... )

I keep on thinking that I will update this ( Read more... )

When I was younger I tried to end my days in the Invention Workshop: lying in my bed; eyes closed; furiously thinking of ways to improve the world. Alas, for many of my innovations used technology that has not yet appeared. Equal in shame, to me, is that I have at times been so unwilling to innovate myself - to help out around the house, and to ( Read more... )

Though there have been a few bumps along the way, I've maintained my training regimen and I am starting to look something like my former self. If only I could add an hour or two of aimless biking into my life! This weekend I will finally have some downtime, during which I plan to get some air into the tires of one of our bikes here and hit the road ( Read more... )

After a brief period where I honestly thought he would pull through, my grandfather passed away suddenly last week from pneumonia. My initial reaction when people began asking me about him was "oh, we weren't that close; I'll just be going down there with my family for a few days to help out my mother and grandmother." After all the time spent in ( Read more... )

A lot has changed since the day last year in which my neighbors excitedly charged into my room, demanding that I watch will.i.am's "yes we can video," and I am heartened for said changes. I think that our lives can often be defined by the times that we look back on what we have done, and the times that we look ahead to what we will do. Willpower is ( Read more... )

I am nothing more than stored energy fueling intent on the molecular level that I cannot explain. I am nothing more than a repository of emotions like runners in a race streaming around a track in a pack so close that those in the lead can hardly be told from those in back. Whatever the curious amalgamation between the two amounts to, one thing is ( Read more... )

The entirety of the past summer and semester are available for your viewing within the past 25 entries I've written. I didn't realize I had fallen so far from writing regularly. One of the things I love is occasionally scrolling through my old posts and seeing what I did on a given day in the past few years; impossible with my lack of posting. But ( Read more... )

I can't sleep and I start what might as well be the rest of my life in the tomorrow that is today. So much has changed between the summer and now, and in many ways I wish I could go back to "that guy." From now till the end of March my life will consist of working and visiting Boston (and other locales), as I struggle to put together enough money ( Read more... )

Like Liv, I too wonder about the faces from my past. Much in the same way that I wonder whether old girlfriends still think of me - a conceit that I reveal because I trust I'm not the only one wondering - I still think about them all the time. What follows is as honest an entry as I've ever composed ( Read more... )