It's official. I have a mad crush on Joseph Gordon-Levitt.

That's all.

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"We...have dreamt the world. We have dreamt it as firm, mysterious, visible, ubiquitous in space and durable in time; but in its architecture we have allowed tenuous and eternal crevices of unreason which tell us it is false." --Jorge Luis Borges

The tree outside my window is completely covered with ice. I can see the individual branches, each encased in a thin transparent shell, bobbing in and out of the stark yellow glow from the streetlamps below. In this light the tree looks like a giant half-lit cobweb, spun precariously between looming brick walls. I'm sure it's cold and ( Read more... )

As a friend of mine said, America suddenly got a little better today. Onward and upward, I guess.

HE DID IT

WE DID IT

BARACK OBAMA IS THE PRESIDENT-ELECT OF THE UNITED STATES

HALLELUJAH

I'm sitting in my room right now, working on my paper for Physics 14 and listening to KFOG. Just now, they played "Smooth" (yes, the Santana/Rob Thomas song, you know it's good), and I felt a sudden, irresistible urge to get up and dance. Which I did. Like a moron. Alone in my room. And it was GREAT ( Read more... )

Man oh man. If you ever want to sink deep into a gloomy, melancholy reverie while simultaneously basking in the astonishing power and craft of Really Good Acting (and of Samuel Beckett, of course), watch this video*:

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*Ignore the overly spelled-out ending. The rest is amazing, I swear.

Owwwwwwww. My head.

*whimper*

Where the sam hill did break go? I just got home, and tomorrow I'm leaving.

That's really all I have to say. I've been minimally conscious this week. Which is as it should be.