“What kind of an idea are you? Are you the kind that compromises, does deals, accommodates itself to society, aims to find a niche, to survive; or are you the cussed, bloody-minded, ramrod-backed type of damnfool notion that would rather break than sway with the breeze? - The kind that will almost certainly, ninety-nine times out of a hungred, be ( Read more... )

My clock doesn't tick ( Read more... )

I'm at LBI. It happens every year. This year really isn't much different. One may note though, that I have internet access while I'm down here, which, while it seriously cuts into the time I devote to reading, is wonderful as I don't feel completely trapped in this small (yet admittedly lovely) beach house ( Read more... )

I have newfound respect for our ancestors. They must have had much more patience than we can even imagine today in this world of instant gratification where everything is at our fingertips.

Letters take a long time to travel to their destination. And you can't put a read receipt on them, either.

That said, this is all still terribly romantic.

You've been a fool, and so have I, now come and be my wife,
And let us try before we die to make some sense of life.

We're neither pure, nor wise, nor good. We'll do the best we know.
We'll build our house, and chop our wood, and make our garden grow.
Make our garden grow.

I thought the world was sugar cake, for so my master said.
But now I'll teach ( Read more... )

I don't know what my new year's resolution is for 2009.

Wait. Yes I do: Don't be afraid.

So, my Alicante LJ on the whole being a big flop, I've been too ashamed to return to the world of Livejournal for sometime, but it's too good to stay away from for too long. I'm sitting at Wired cafe with Marguerite and Millsy, and since I don't have bluetooth on my laptop, cannot jump  into the fray of music sharing, I've come crawling back.

This ( Read more... )

I haven't left yet, but I've created my study abroad journal. If you feel so inclined, please feel free to add it as well: 
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My New Year's Resolution?

To try everything that I come across and savor each new experience.
...And to get out from behind the camera every once in awhile.

Happy 2008 to all who pass by this humble journal.

Yesterday was the trip to NYC to pick up Ivy's and my visas and passports. It would have been so much better had I not been sick and exhausted. We ate a really good lunch in Koreantown, grabbed the visas at the Consulate, where Matt and Janine almost got arrested (who else?), went to Rockefellar Center and hung around in Chinatown ( Read more... )