so, this is 2011?

i woke up tired,
i;m suffering a cold, my throat rough and my sinuses uneasy,
my head tender after too much red wine, last night ..

.. still, i feel the urge to go running outside.
(how much sicker could i become, anyway?it's warm in pittsburgh, probably fleetingly so ( Read more... )

maybe i care too much about the colloquial meanings of words.

prin·ci·ple /ˈprɪnsəpəl/ -noun

1. an accepted or professed rule of action or conduct: a person of good moral principles.
   
2. a fundamental, primary, or general law or truth from which others are derived: the principles of modern physics.
   
3. a fundamental doctrine or tenet; a distinctive ruling ( Read more... )

last new year i was in bangkok airport. i kissed my girlfriend (at the time), she left a few hours later, and then i was alone for a while.

this year: no kiss, alone again.
oh well: that how most of my new years have gone.

it's been a shitty november. the year soon ends, though & i'll be glad to be rid of it. i would like a new year, a new start.

[i wrote this last night but ran into internet problems.]the worst of it is over, i think. the month has turned and i don't feel awful anymore ( Read more... )

on the morning of new year's day i woke up on the floor of a friend's house, although i was in a sleeping bag at the time and fully intended to be in one.

there was 10 inches of snow on the ground;
we watched some of it fall the night before.

i don't feel much like a mathematician yet. i think i took too long a holiday, and it will take a ( Read more... )

it's been 2007 for two hours now, and i feel i should write something.

new year's might as well be my birthday, because it's only now that i feel my oldest. i don't rightly feel like that roman god janus, because he has two faces to look both forward and back ( Read more... )

yes, i am getting started on an early batch of these, this year ..

.. and no, i don't believe in new year's resolutions, because once a resolution is broken, it is worthless. but a principle is flexible; as long as one adopts the rule most of the time, then it may still hold true ( Read more... )

i amended my new year's principles today, but the new one is not so new. i try it every year -- to go vegetarian -- because of the sheer enormity of meat in chinese holiday meals. it's reactionary at best, but if i fail, it remains something worth trying ( Read more... )

Best wishes to everyone, and happy new year. Mine was quiet and I ran into my flatmate, who flew in and experienced two New Year's: (1) one on the plane from Sydney, AUS to Los Angeles, CA, and (2) one while stationary in Ann Arbor, MI.

I'll say more about my thoughts concerning year's end, another time.

For now, I'd like to show you some ( Read more... )