By Cyrus the Great, Babylon, 539 BC ( Read more... )

I foolishly told someone I would sit at the Sohlberg Desk tomorrow night, err - tonight? from 3am until 7am. I probably would not have taken the shift if the offer came from any of the other dorms, but because it's Solhberg... the people are nice, the desk is clean, and the fridge is stocked with 25 cent sodas... and sometimes there is a ( Read more... )

It's raining, it's pouring, my old man is snoring...I ran across a beautiful tribal myth today, from Iroquois lore: this is the story of one hunter, who chased a star until he could chase her no more, into the very deep of the sky. Who can ever know why he chose her as his hunt, but fly he did, a mere mortal man chasing a star-being in the heavens ( Read more... )

Right. I can't say that today was all that inspiring. I didn't see anything spectacular, or witness any miracles. I didn't go beyond my campus, or even take any major risks today. But there are some days that you know have gone well, but you are not willing to give reasons, because you feel like it would ruin, or at least, tamper with the ( Read more... )

Dreaming among dreaming - within dreams, outside of dreams, on top of dreams, screaming, clawing, opening them up and tearing them apart - mending the colored silks together, with a golden string and a silver needle - the sun and the moon rising together on the twilight of our dreams ( Read more... )

There is a city on the horizon. The buildings are forged of glass. In the streets, the people wear colorful ribbons and smile with gold teeth. A man, drawing a lone cart, stalks one of the many courts of this city. In his cart is a circus of creatures - wild elephants the size of a man's fist, with tusks that look like knife blades; purple ( Read more... )

Nipples are the weirdest things.

Perhaps the "greatest" thing about the "Iraq(i) War" is that we get British journalists on site of the war, with British accents.

I completed the second section of the first chapter, although I have doubts. It seems to me that the wording of this section can be expanded, for I feel like I am rushing through it ( Read more... )

Steam has been building in me in the last week, and I really need to vent ( Read more... )