Seppuku. Deaths using charcoal and tranquillizers, pacts formed between strangers over the Internet. The Chuo Line Rapid, a Tokyo train line used so frequently by victims it gained the gruesome “Suicide Line” nickname. Yukiko Okada, the eighteen year old idol singer, who threw herself from a seven story building in 1986, spawning so many copycat ( Read more... )

 ~I think I finally figured out why I get so down around the holidays. It's all the down time. I know that seems strange; more time for reading, and video games, and all that. But I can't concentrate; my brain won't stop racing. I'm simultaneously over stimulated and bored stupid out of my skull. Too many days like that, and my emotional stability ( Read more... )

~It's been a pretty fabulous break so far. Yesterday was the typical affair at my aunt's and uncle's in the Cities. Packers won, though. It was pretty amusing, my dad and grandpa trying to explain football rules to me. Touchdowns and who the quarterback is are pretty much the only facts that stuck ( Read more... )

~Lately I've been reading a lot about Queen Elizabeth the 1st. The Tudor era always interested me, and Elizabeth is a fascinating creature, very ahead of her time in terms of attitude. She was fiercely independent, intelligent, vain, and quite a bitch. I relate strongly to her-I feel as if she is the essence of what my personality could be ( Read more... )

 ~I had a thoroughly unproductive weekend (aside from getting some awesome footage of Varsity Show!) Still, I was happy to see Instr. Wittig ALMOST double-pass, and sing Disney with a brand-new orange belt and brand-new purple sash the entire way down to Madison. The weekend had a few bumps (like not getting back until super late and missing plans ( Read more... )

 ~I am in a most excellent mood! The Internet has been acting strangely all night, but that's all right, because I am going to rebel with pie. Barney Stintson believes sex will solve all social problems ("Apartheid." "Apart thigh.") I myself am a firm believer that if we all embraced the excellence of pie, our lives would have much deeper ( Read more... )

~Today I fixed audio problems, re-routed a black screen, and finished a Camtasia project. I love feeling useful at work.

Now if only I can manage to keep mitosis and meiosis straight for my Physical Anthro test tomorrow, I'll feel very accomplished.

 "What am I gonna do when the best part of me was always you, when I'm all choked up and you're okay?.... Cause when a heart breaks, no, it don't break even."

For once in my over-analyzing and babble-ridden life, I'm done, and that's all I'm gonna say. 

Today is not turning into a stellar day. Yesterday was cold and wet and miserable, and I woke up with two of the three adjectives. My head feels lightheaded, even after I’ve eaten, and my forehead feels unusually hot.

I also feel like the pit of my stomach has dropped out and left vast nothingness.

I cannot get sick. I cannot and cannot. I have a ( Read more... )