i got my ring back... yay! (it was being sized. well actually... i wanted to have it sized but they said they wouldn't do it again cause it would compromise it's integrity... so they put 2 little beads on the inside of the band which make it a little more snug). anyways, my ring finger is happy again ( Read more... )

the past few books i've read have all sort of had an underlying, connecting thread - i've really enjoyed reading them. in the order in which i've read them, they are:

This is Your Brain on Music
Snoop
The Architecture of Happinessi'm currently working my way through the latter - i'm about a third of the way through. the books have all had some ( Read more... )

-i'm in the process of writing a short little piece for us to play on guitar & acoustic bass. it probably won't be super-great/long but at least its's fun to write something. its in G minor, moderate tempo, & in 3/4 (...though actually now that i think about it 6/8 would probably work better. grr ( Read more... )

ooo, Semagic tells me today is Tom's b-day.... hope you have a good one!

Monday: don't really remember much
Tuesday: hung out @ Cory's all day, read for awhile, played music maybe?, went rock climbing @ night & watched America's Got Talent
Wednesday: taught a piano lesson in the morning, hung out in the afternoon, tried to fold our folding bikes ( Read more... )

Monday: solo walk/run
Tuesday: buy folding bike and ride maybe 5-6 miles? (guess)
Wednesday: walk/run around here with Cory
Thursday: rock climbing @ Go Vertical and a short bike ride around here w/Cory
today: ??? (something later when Cory's done work ( Read more... )

no class for me tonight, so i made a short list of things to accomplish and then decided instead to go set up my tripod and mess around taking silly portraits of myself. i at least tried to do some different angles and whatnot. i feel like everything i take of myself always looks the same, and i know i can't use the excuse of "it's too hard to ( Read more... )

well, it's been over a week so i guess i should say something. i'd typed up a whole post earlier on my old Dell over @ Cory's and right as i was about to post, i got the infamous blue screen... grr. so here's the abridged version ( Read more... )

wow, it's pretty awful out.

at least The Biggest Loser is on in 15 mins... yay, something to do besides read the night away. i've started 'A Million Little Pieces' by James Frey.... yes, the one that garnered all the hype a year or so ago when he went on Oprah and stated that he made some of the supposed autobiography up [i'm curious as to what ( Read more... )

( lalala )

from the book i started earlier today:

"Many are convinced that mechanical time does not exist. When they pass the giant clock on the Kramgasse they do not see it; nor do they hear its chimes while sending packages on Postgasse or strolling between flowers in the Rosengarten. They wear watches on their wrists, but only as ornaments or as ( Read more... )