Well, sorry I'm a bit late to the party, folks. I had a fun pre-2010 - my brother was around for a few weeks, we worked out super hard together, and we went to a convention in NOVA on video games and video game music, which unfortunately lasted a day longer than the two of us had planned - but then I ended up leaving my job, having my computer die ( Read more... )

Hmm.. it's been a while, but not a whole lot has changed. Two things, I suppose.. or maybe more, since I didn't actually think very hard before I said that ( Read more... )

Is it unfair of me to value things that I come up on my own higher than things that come from reading books? I don't really know if it's even possible to get to the root of an idea enough to decide truly if it's one or the other, but I still feel like if I think things out on my own it has more value somehow than if I analyze something that ( Read more... )

So I finished one of the random books that I bought at Barnes and Noble tonight. I bought it cuz the cover says ( Read more... )

Just finished American Gods.. excellent book. I'll have to talk to other people after they're read it at some point ( Read more... )

Religions are, by definition, metaphors, after all: God is a dream, a hope, a woman, an ironist, a father, a city, a house of many rooms, a watchmaker who left his prize chronometer in the desert, someone who loves you - even, perhaps, against all evidence, a celestial being whose only interest is to make sure your football team, army, business, or ( Read more... )

"All we have to believe with is our senses, the tools we use to perceive the world; our sight, our touch, our memory. If they lie to us, then nothing can be trusted. And even if we do not believe, then still we cannot travel in any other way than the road our senses show us; and we must walk that road to the end."
--American Gods

I slept through my music class on Friday because I was up all night with Sam Huckins, working on his music paper and generally goofing around. I learned that adding 'of death' to the ends of phrases is an excellent way to laugh a whole lot when you're pretty tired. I'm a bit worried about myself, though, in regards to the music class. That was ( Read more... )