Well folks, you'd be proud of me if I told you that I actually avoided having to pull an all-nighter in the first week of classes. That's happened to me fairly often, but I steeled myself against it this week and came through victorious ( Read more... )

Is it just me, or are the weeks getting longer? Maybe it's because I haven't managed to complete all of my goals for any given day in longer than I can remember (which, granted, isn't that long since my memory is anus).

1. Elaborate on your default icon. It's Miroku, my favorite character from one of my favorite cartoons.
2. What's your current relationship status? Single, and doing my best to keep it that way.
3. Ever have a near-death experience? Death is always at my doorstep.
4. Name an obvious quality you have: Curly hair -- but that's only sometimes.
Where's ( Read more... )

Sometimes...I just pick up a stick to consider how it got its shape and wonder when it decided (or it was decided) that it would break away from the tree that was the beginning of its "is."

Yup. Sure enough, it goes many, many ways. And I do, too.

( 'Quizzy Poo' is an amusing term. )

I think my knees are getting worse. Lately, I can't even sit with my knees at a 90º angle for more than 20 or 30 minutes without them starting to hurt. Any longer than that and it soon becomes difficult to ignore. The kicker is that when it happens, they hurt much more immediately after I straighten them. Gets worse before it gets better kinda ( Read more... )

Okay, so it's true that I don't really like little kids, but this morning I was genuinely amazed ( Read more... )

My pupils are dilated. This has the most curious (and rather exciting) effect of making anything even reasonably close to me impossible to see clearly -- the words on the screen right now, for example. Also, if I go outside right now, I have to squint even though it's cloudy, because it is too bright ( Read more... )

I'm home. Clearly back to my schedule of staying up/sleeping late. My new house is...interesting. I think 2 or 3 of my old house could fit in here, but it still feels a little bit empty and strange here. I just need to get used to it ( Read more... )

I'm back in America. Actually, I've been back for a while, but things have been busy here in Portland, Oregon, and I haven't been able to keep up on journal-y things as well as I would probably like ( Read more... )