The science of cheating death becomes more pronounced.

Hypothermia.
Saline.I have mixed feelings on this, as well as on hypotheses regarding nanotechnology ( Read more... )

"Systematically identify your issues, then deal with them rationally."

Yes, I talk to myself in second person. Aloud.
Who needs self-help books when they already know what to do? It's more a matter of being too unmotivated to do it.

-This is the first time I've really checked out Google maps in depth. It began as a fun virtual flight over the place I'll be living soon, but it turned into a somewhat remorseful scan of the place I'll be leaving soon, and a masochistic recollection of the place I left fifteen months ago. Note to self: If you despised living in place, don't zoom ( Read more... )

So I'll live. I always have difficulty letting go of ideas I've been attached to, but my advantage is that after I do manage to let go I adapt pretty quickly to new circumstances. The entire time since November I've spent working on this ultimately futile goal already is starting to seem quite distant and baffling to me ( Read more... )

I have discovered that the thing I most regret about allowing myself to slide into four years of despair involving a succession of two male people is all the time spent crying and wishing they loved me when I could have been acquiring knowledge of all the interesting things in the world ( Read more... )

Two things I've been thinking about today that seem somehow related ( Read more... )

I had to try this one too.
Can be taken here.
I'm just pasting the things I find to be relevant, emphasising the particularly true stuff, and striking out the stuff that doesn't apply.

Your Enneagram type is FOUR.

"I am unique"

Romantics have sensitive feelings and are warm and perceptive.

How to Get Along with Me
Give me plenty of ( Read more... )

( Random thoughts on pain and stuff. )

I was very hyper and disturbingly optimistic this morning. It was strange. I sat there at my inane job typing away and mulling over how to get money together for possibly studying later in the year, and the time flew by. It was like I was on crack, ritalin, and ephedrin simultaneously, or what I would picture. I thought this was worth noting ( Read more... )

I don't particularly want a serious relationship anymore. To elaborate, I still want that, but only if it's serious in the way that the relationship itself is like a medition, a spiritual epiphany. I believe this is possible but very unlikely. And if it's anything short of unspeakably profound, I simply can't be bothered anymore ( Read more... )