I like to use this as a mantra and general topic for meditation and I find the results fascinating:
I am what I am not.

So, tonight I found out that my physics professor had never noticed that I ever showed up for the class. This confuses me, but the last time I had this professor the same thing happened - they would take attendance, I would raise my hand and say "here" and all that, but they would go, "oh, he's not here today ( Read more... )

one must first of all that while the journey to enlightenment may take the form of a series of sudden leaps, that does not make it an easy journey or a short one. The prospective illuminatus (a term I use because it fits as well as any other, which I herafter define as "enlightened one") must be willing to sacrifice anything in search of this goal ( Read more... )

I know my beliefs end up sounding very strange, but I've got an argument and I guess one could listen to it or not as is their want ( Read more... )

this is a 100% real line from an e-mail I received from reslife today.
"11 out of every 10 college students will need to defend themselves at some point in their lives."
Isn't that an impressive statistic?

I got an "A" on my thesis. woo.

Sometimes it rains inside my head ( Read more... )

I've got a new blog. It's for class, so don't expect it to be comprehensible (or, expect it to be more comprehensible - at least more forthright than this one)

it's at

http://letrangerdelest.wordpress.com

So, what's been going on? Mostly, work, school, and band practice, plus full-time SO, plus whatever else is going on. Pretty busy, but strangely enough it doesn't seem too busy ( Read more... )

You know what? I'm tired of apologists who don't realize that there's a little thing called alternatives. Just because something is a certain way, doesn't mean it has to be. I'm thinking of this in particular. Yeah, I worked for that company. Now that I've left I make almost twice as much after the same amount of time, for a company with a smaller ( Read more... )