My new year's resolution this year is "be better at being out ( Read more... )

So 99% of the people I know have joined the mass exodus to Dreamwidth and no one's going to read this, and anyway it's pretty dumb for being the first update in three months or something and this journal's probably not going to stay on LJ much longer anyway, but I have to get this one out because music! What do I even post about anymore ( Read more... )

Oklahoma has an obsession with storms. Like Georgia and peaches, like Annapolis and crabs, like San Francisco and rainbows, Oklahoma represents itself with the thunderstorm. It's everywhere you look - half the little league sports teams in the state are "Cyclones," our basketball team is the OKC Thunder, Arashi Taiko proudly blazons the kanji for " ( Read more... )

I've never seen storm clouds like tonight before. It's like the usual hulking cumulus monstrosities suddenly sprouted white warts, or like a population of giant moles tunneled their way upside-down across the sky. There's lightning crawling over the tunnels, and the air smells heavy and yellow. I don't like it - they're not majestic or full of that ( Read more... )

As of two hours ago, Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is still in critical condition. But surgeons are optimistic for her recovery, though they remain unsure about possible long term damage.

Not a single mainstream media outlet that I have been able to find has called Jared Loughner a terrorist. The Wall Street Journal reports that he "refers to ( Read more... )

So I pretty much just go back to my dorm to sleep these days and don't do enough of that even when I'm there oh god why am I stupid.

However! Things are right on schedule. I fully intend to use the extra two hours I have today between symphony and taiko to finish my first draft of The Paper completely. My biggest problem with it is that it's so ( Read more... )

Which is the truth: That stressful things happen all at once, or that we only notice how stressful they are when they don't come one at a time?

Bullet List of No Time To Write Complete Sentences:
-have til four in the afternoon to finish this fizzix homework. why don't intervals make sense anymore.-have til next Friday to finish my foreign ( Read more... )

I'm pretty swamped right now. Fizzix homework, two research papers underway, lesson juries approaching fast, piano repertoire checks every damn week, coordinating plans for returning to the ATL this winter, taiko, church group obligations. And yet I don't feel like I'm doing enough ( Read more... )

AN ACCOUNT OF THE 9:10 AM NORMAN EARTHQUAKE, AS EXPERIENCED BY AURAL SKILLS I, SECTION A:

Ground/Building: RWAAAAAAAAAR GRUMBLE SHAKE HRRRRRRRRRRNGH SKLDLKXFJHSDHGSA
Class: =collective desk-gripping fit of WAT=
Logan: ...Is this an earthquake?
Emily: This is totally an earthquake!
Logan: ...And it's still happening!
Connor: DDD8 YOU GUYS DID NOT ( Read more... )

( Regarding my future. )