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There are times when I would like to take myself aside and say, "Look. Wednesday." (because my subconscious doesn't seem to see me as shell; it's always Wednesday, especially when it's trouble.) "Look, have you been paying any attention? I mean, really."

This is one of those times.


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I'm not even going to bother editing this- I seem to write so infrequently anymore, I might as well get it all out, even if it's a nightmare of run-ons. I do apologise.
( a ridiculously rambling weekend recap )

One of the things that i don't like about getting older is the casting off of parts, the settling into ideas. The unnerving unchangeability of what you do, and what that forms you to be. I never want to settle so far that i cannot change. This one thing I want to keep: the indecisive, impetuous muse, the artistic jack-of-all-trades; drawing on ( Read more... )

       Tonight was the last class of the semester for my beginner's class. Low attendance over the past few weeks (and the last few weeks of every semester so far) is making me wonder how, exactly, you keep the attendance of a drop-in class up. It's incredibly easy to simply not go, and once you miss one class, it's even harder to go next week... ( Read more... )

          We got a call today, from Andy's family. Apparently his cousin, John, was in a motorcycle accident this afternoon & was lifeflighted to the hospital. All things considered, he came out of it pretty well- road rash, a few sets of stitches, and possibly a broken collarbone; they don't seem to think there is much else to worry about. They' ( Read more... )

It's too easy to be run by a schedule, to loose yourself in them. And I, I have a tendency to fill my schedules tightly, to stretch the ends together until there is barely enough time to breathe. I hate schedules. Wondering, incredulously- did I like this once? And with karate- and school- and competitions, and kata practice, I can't help but think ( Read more... )

It's fallen into kind of an irritation- can you tell? Can you see the amount of times that I backspace, and the little consideration that fills what I finally put down? I am not sure what it is that I am discontent with now- can't even find ideas to put down for it. Then again, I don't know as discontent is the right word, either ( Read more... )

I was reading old karate posts.I got to the quote halfway through that post and stopped dead ( Read more... )