I should stop lurking on other people's journals and just say something right here, which is that Europe continues to astonish me ( Read more... )

I retract my statement about trying not to write about myself too much; I amend it to not writing a lot of self-analytical nonsense that nobody cares to read ( Read more... )

The summer now lies before me, golden and green and filled with the sun’s heat, the storms’ cold. This is my favorite season, without question. Spring is too afraid; autumn is too sad; winter is too dead. I wish there were still a holiday that everyone celebrated on the summer solstice. I would celebrate it quite gladly. And yes, I mean everyone, ( Read more... )

There is a long, silent night ahead, here in my room. I know I will not sleep. It’s remarkable how a very simple choice, very simple words, can make everything else start to condense and congeal into a pure, cool block of understanding. A few years’ worth of questioning hasn’t been resolved, but it’s time for me to stop wishing it could be resolved ( Read more... )

My father sent me an e-mail today, and ( this is what it said )

Still preparing for my exam in Romantic and Victorian Poetry, I find myself wondering what the appeal of the natural, the gothic, the earthy, the wild truly was for the Romantics. Of course, I know what it was in theory, and it has a similar appeal to me. Some credence that I might lend to the reincarnation idea is drawn from the fact that I ( Read more... )

I attempted to see An American Haunting last night because I get a sick, masochistic joy out of laughing at un-scary scary movies. That didn’t work, at least partially because the projectionist was an idiot. Also, at least half the people I know (and don’t know) at Eupheme were there to see the same thing, i.e. a blank white screen ( Read more... )

It has been brought to my attention a few times now that the vast majority of male students at Eupheme are gay or at least definitely not straight. I don’t know what to make of this. Maybe I should feel unique ( Read more... )

I’ve not yet been here a week at Eupheme, and I already feel as if there were something, maybe a few somethings, happening that I am supposed to know of but don’t. Classes are fine, the people are fine, the school is generally a vast improvement. It would also be natural for me to need to integrate myself into pre-existing cliques. But there is ( Read more... )

“The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery; and making her stand before all of them, they said to him, ‘Teacher, this woman was caught in the very act of comitting adultery. Now in the law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?’ They said this to test him, so that they might have some charge ( Read more... )