hold your head high
don't look down
i'm by your side
i won't back down
you wanted a hero tonight
well i'm not made of steel
but your secret's safe with me

they knock you down
i'll pick you up
they laugh at you
i'll shut them up
i'm not made of steel
i'm not made of steel
i'm not made of steel
but your secret's safe with me

-our lady peace

hey, hey guys! check this out. i have upped my percentage-of-the-world-visited quotient by 2% since december 2006. pretty cool huh? i guess living in europe all this time has been worth something after all.

i'm really sorry i haven't updated this blog more regularly over the last year and a half. that is not offered as an apology, but as an ( Read more... )

 you know things have gotten desperate when you're drinking a cup of coffee in the shower.

i am on the steepest - or very nearly the steepest - learning curve of my entire academic career. i can't remember the last thing i did that was this hard.

i'm not at all convinced that i shouldn't be rethinking my time frame for completing my transfer of ( Read more... )

i'm not ready
i wanna stay here
it's not enough to have you near

all these faces
they'll be saying goodbye
goodbye
don't make me say it, don't make say it
i can't face this
i can't say it
goodbye
goodbye
don't wanna say it, don't wanna say goodbye
don't make me say goodbye

i could say 'see you later'
that would make me feel better

all these faces
they'll be saying ( Read more... )

the way i used to laugh with you was loud and hard

did i do all that i should?
all that i coulda done?

remember, we used to dance
and everyone wanted to be you and me
i want to be too

what day is this besides the day you left me?
what day is this besides the day you went?
so what to do with the rest of the day's afternoon?

he's with me every day ( Read more... )

well well well well well. more often than not, at least for me, really long lapses in updating are the result not of having too little to write about, but having too much to write about and not really knowing where to start. i just drank 5 cups of coffee (and before you wince at that, know that 5 cups a day is now endorsed by science) and it seems ( Read more... )

just witnessed history. updates to follow.

"4) Does the research involve administering any drug, placebo, or other substances to participants in the European Union (EU ( Read more... )

on the first day of 10th grade chemistry mr. bodkin told us that scientists had just mathematically approximated the number of people who would kill themselves if the united states switched to the metric system. in the middle of cleaning out my room yesterday, it occurred to me for the first time that he meant kill themselves accidentallyafter 11 ( Read more... )

i've been told twice in the last 4 days that i am "a good representative for the american people". pretty sweet ( Read more... )