Here's where I realize I fail at posting again. :)  Seems I've had writer's block in more ways than one recently.

Discussing a book he's been reading entitled This is your Brain on Music:

R: There are a lot of things that I sort of knew but wasn't necessarily aware of.  Like the fact that every musical culture recognizes the equivalence of the octave.

*beat*

R: And so do cats.

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Your cats apparently aren't telling you things.  Neither are barn owls for that ( Read more... )

hisserendipity2: sometimes, you can't afford to wait.

I don't really know where to start with this one.  I was getting married but all of the preparations seemed to be getting pulled together really last minute but, at the time, I was just kind of going with it and thinking "It'll be all good...We'll get everything done we need to....It'll be wonderful..."  I saw my mother and someone else carrying ( Read more... )

robespierre03: You and I have the strangest conversations ( Read more... )

I slept in fits and starts last night and it seemed in my half-sleep that I was having a very long and continuous conversation with the boy from election night. This continued until about 4:30 in the morning when I woke up a little cranky and vaguely irritated with life in general. I was wide awake but not prepared to deal with anything. Reading ( Read more... )

Last night was pretty fantastic. A new president. Two incredible speeches given by honorable men. Headway was made on the orchestration project. And I might have stayed up too late hanging out with a boy I've been talking to. Maybe. Just a little ( Read more... )

Tonight's Bible study was about death and dying. My heart sank to my stomach and I started to feel all of the familiar sensations that come with an unexpected fresh bout of grief. In the moments before it started, I relived that day, the funeral, the aftermath. I remembered every time I had felt like this for any reason all in the span of a ( Read more... )

In honor of Penguin Pal Pablo:


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So, the weekend sucked.  We know that.  This morning, even, wasn't so great.  This afternoon?  I talked with the Liz and vented a bit and made tentative plans for when I'm in town [which happens to coincide with K's birthday, a fact I had forgotten].  So that was good.  Then, still high off the delightful conversation, I went and prepped for a ( Read more... )