I am what you would probably call a casual fan of the Harry Potter books. I've read them, I've enjoyed them, and I'm curious to see how the story ends. However, I am not obsessed, I am not addicted, and I certainly have no intention of going and buying the book the first night it comes out with the various fanboys and crazies all dressed up and ( Read more... )

"When I debate environmentalists, they always tell me that I have too much faith in technology to solve humanity's problems. I tell them that they don't have enough. I am a student of history, and history tells us that these environmental scares are always unfounded, because our technology and innovation allows us to overcome our obstacles. In the ( Read more... )

Warning, this story gets rather R-rated, so be mindful of that before reading on ( Read more... )

Three Things That Scare Me

-Dying alone/never finding a soulmate
-Spending all this time training to be a music teacher only to get into my own classroom and find out I'm awful at it
-The thought of losing the people I love.

Three People Who Make Me Laugh
-Rachael
-Greg
-Sadie

Three Things I Love-Kurt Elling ( Read more... )

The thought of shooting Rubin, our new 5'3'' M21 bass, out of a cannon ( Read more... )

*Mead is quite delicious. If you haven't had it before, I highly recommend it ( Read more... )

In honor of Beardtober, I've been growing out my beard. I have to say, the beard looks better than my earlier attempts to grow it out, as long as I keep it trimmed. I think it makes me look distinguished. I'll probably get rid of it soon, but I'd like to see if I can get it any fuller. So that's that ( Read more... )

*The Denver Post redesigned their website, and I hate it. Before, its layout was more like an actually newspaper: the fonts weren't so "websitey" and the page was less busy. Now there's shit all over the place instead of just simple links with the headlines...it looks like a MySpace page. Boo on you, Denver post. I might have to start subscribing ( Read more... )

A- Accent: none, sometimes a slight Oklahoma accent when I'm feeling like it ( Read more... )

So today in my history class we watched a scene from the opera Der Freischutz by Carl Maria von Weber (NAWM 126, Megan). In this particular scene, the main character is basically descending into a dark, evil part of the woods in order to sell his soul to the devil. There are supposed to be all of these evil creatures in the woods while the scene is ( Read more... )