Rant: Sick of people who only know how to criticize, but who can't think of a single creative idea themselves. Makes me ill, grah.

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I was going to say 'Life is great', before realizing that what I had prior to this wasn't -quite- 'life' XD

Anyhow, things really have been great. Doing massive amounts of reading on Southeast Asian History, government topics, and practical living (heh depressingly necessary). I'm exercizing everyday. Gone are the days of mad fatigue. My feet feel ( Read more... )

I realize there are a ton of things I'm not familiar with ( Read more... )

Hm, I caught this today. There were plenty of very nice things about it: beautiful photography, effective performances. The mother, in particular, was terrific, really. I've not seen such a performance in quite a while ( Read more... )

At this pt in time, I simply can't wait to ORD. These 2 years have been a monumental standstill.

I've already killed all my hate.

I'm going to start getting my powers back.

I can't stop playing Teenage Dream...!

And because I'm ridiculous, I'll entertain with passages like these:

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Kept mentally looping the ending song of Tian Long Ba Bu (王菲's 宽恕) during the past week's field camp. A very precise representation of the kind of sorrow I experience these days... not full-bodied melancholy, but despair mixed with piercing, insistent dissatisfaction ( Read more... )

Because I'm presently too unwound to work at a piece that will do justice to Taiwan (but then again, the only details supplied will be w regard to my 3-day RnR), allow me to settle, instead, for an account of my block leave. ( Read more... )