In the rare instances in which I have dreams, they typically occur after I have initially woken up in the morning and, convinced I have ample time to lie down for just a few more minutes, fall back asleep ( Read more... )

I just dominated my philosophy essay. Yes, I have done so several hours later than I might have hoped, but I am satisfied ( Read more... )

Don't be surprised if I clock out early in about fifteen years. I think this is a fair enough advance warning ( Read more... )

Is it better to do good consciously or subconsciously ( Read more... )

You know what was a fine film? The Iron Giant.

Yep.

Damn fine film.

Whenever I'm driving on the highway and a plane cruises low overhead it hits me. Behold humanity! With our steel birds and rolling pods and our artificial veins crisscrossing the world in tarmac. Our metal and glass hives plying at the sky like titanic termite colonies. How blankly we accept this impossible reality and go about our lives ( Read more... )

So, a few important self discoveries: I've got some kind of phobia for large social gatherings, antisocial tendencies, and some pretty intense self-esteem issues. Might be a closet-elitist, while we're here. Generally, let us suffice to say I suck ( Read more... )

So out of the seven of us that hang out together on a regular basis, I am the only one with perfect unassisted vision. As in, only I do not require glasses.

Also, my parents both wear glasses. And today my brother started wearing them, as it turns out he's got 20/40 or some such random array of numbers that somehow quantify his eyesight ( Read more... )

I can't say I'm a fan of flying, or at least that I am in any way partial to it. Or perhaps it's simply when I sit at the window; it gives me such an acutely tangible sense of how close I - and all around me - are to death by gravity. And what a drawn out, self-aware, and communal fate that would be ( Read more... )

Life feels legit right now ( Read more... )