I started to list the books I read after starting to work at the YMCA where I started to read a lot more.

[12/30] Dance Dance Dance by Haruki MurakamiThis was a really wonderful example of Murakami's writing. I thought his main character had more character than they usually do, even more than I remember him having in A Wild Sheep's Chase. I ( Read more... )

I finished another William Nicholson novel! So beautiful. I think he just write all the words in my soul.

( Surely you know it is you who will save me. )

I don't mean to belabor this but the passage of time is really getting to me. Every day crawls by at a disgusting pace, but at the end of the week, as Friday draws to a close I think, "what? The weekend? The week just began." I don't like this. And then I mark down the days on the calendar at the Y and realize it's October and I've already ( Read more... )

I've been attempting to write a LJ post for a long time now but nothing seems to come out. I'll be walking around thinking or doing things and I always say to myself, "oh, this I can LJ about." But as soon as I get to LJ it all vanishes. This is the way my days have been lately. The pressures of the last few weeks of classes are getting to me ( Read more... )

After almost two years I have finally gotten sick. To clarify, I mean cold/flu/coughing sick. I know my stomach tends to be weak, especially back in my Vegetarian days but this kind of illness is rare for me. So while I successfully avoided the 5 various instances of illnesses that plagued my three roommates this semester, it was my sister who ( Read more... )

I'm so bored. And by bored I really mean I have two midterms tomorrow morning and am so tired of studying. I have a midterm in Zen Buddhism tomorrow which I should really be studying for since I have a C in that class--a C that I'm barely getting by with. I went to a study group session and knew everything so I feel okay. This midterm is all ( Read more... )

I am in love with my Asian Medicine professor. I say it like a joke but it's not. I've never felt such admiration, such a connection with anybody before in my entire life. When he first spoke it really touched me somehow, his gentleness and softspoken voice that speaks with such intelligence and such kindness. He describes life like it's full ( Read more... )

No matter how deep and fatal the loss, no matter how important the thing that's stolen from us--that's snatched right out of our hands--even if we are left completely changed, with only the outer layer of skin from before, we continue to play out our lives this way, in silence. We draw ever nearer to the end of our allotted span of time, bidding ( Read more... )