at the moment i find it too troublesome to write about helsinki, simply because i don't know where to begin. instead i thought i'd write about something mundane in my life.

if i have one gift, it's how to discuss the obvious.

* * *i like classical music. it's not that i know very much about it, but i find it soothing. this will probably offend ( Read more... )

i think i'm slipping with age.

most of the pretending that i do happens on airplanes, as a convenient means of chit-chat. i pretend that i'm someone else ( Read more... )

i think it's conventional wisdom amongst leftists, liberals, and hipsters that television is bad.

i remember distinctly in the first grade that my teacher told me: "if you watch too much tv, then you will become fat." at the time i had a horrid aversion to fat and being a fat person,

(why, i neither know nor remember; perhaps it was because ( Read more... )

i could swear that i have a few random neuroses which only manifest themselves whence in social situation and conversation. something impells me to speak in complete, albeit confusing thoughts, and as i grow older it becomes harder to sort or organise my thoughts into some coherent message ( Read more... )

Last night I took the evening and early morning off, and as in the good old days of UM Academic Year 2004-2005, José, Alan, and I hosted a small get-together with friends.
There's not much to say, other than everyone had a jolly good time ..

.. including chihuru, whom we convinced to set aside work for a few hours, in favor of drunken merrymaking .... ( Read more... )