It's a shame that I've not been keeping up with sharing my life via Livejournal and things of this sort because so much has been going on since my last post...

On Thursday, 4 March around 2:00 PM I got word that my 91-year-old grandfather back in Los Angeles was in bad shape.  I learned that an aneurysm present for nearly a decade had finally ( Read more... )

My Ph.D. thesis has officially been accepted, which means that I am probably going to remain in Scotland for at least two more years.  With that very likely future I plan on investing a little more while I'm here.  It would be nice to purchase a new computer (thinking of this upgrade...).  Another investment would be less focused on my academics ( Read more... )

The other day I went to my front door only to discover a recently delivered package on the ground. The package was from Hannah Jesus Koh and included a kind letter and two large Big Hunks:


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I'm in Cambridge staying with Alex. I took a red eye from Long Beach Saturday night. I missed being in Boston.



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I'm about to go on the last sprint before the marathon.  A week of camping around California, in some of my favorite places in the world.  After I come back I only have three-and-a-half weeks before I leave for Boston/NYC for five days, then from there to Iceland, London, and eventually my new home, St Andrews.  It's beginning to hit me now.  Here' ( Read more... )

i could post 800 entries about anything else but controversy, but then i post one and everyone comes out to comment. i apologize for my ungracious/ungrateful attitude this past week. does anyone ever just have those times where things pile up and break them down completely? yes, you all do. it was that ( Read more... )

oh dear. things are pretty terrible inside of my head right now. it is likely that few people will read this.

i have one big question:

what is so wrong with my personality that i am entirely unpleasant to be with or even to know?in all honesty, that is all i can derive from the current state of things. no friends. no family. it's pretty difficult ( Read more... )

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everything i hold dear i realize i will lose in time. all of my emotions. all of my friends. i've seen our lives changed one by one and i know that in time i will probably be all alone, the way it should be, the way i deserve to be. but i also see that i am not spending my life waiting to die. i see that i have a passion for what is now. i have a ( Read more... )

today i received news concerning a friend of mine, josh. i found out from another good friend kyle that josh had passed away. i met josh a few years ago, when i was a much younger Christian. i had known his sister for a while. at that time, josh and his family lived in tennessee. josh had been back and forth between tennessee and california from ( Read more... )