"Light is a drug," says Russel J. Reiter, a neuroendocrinologist at the University of Texas Health Science Center who has researched the disease-preventing properties of melatonin. "By abusing it, we compromise our health." (articleNot being able to see the stars is just one of the reasons I don't like city lights and urban sprawl. I've also ( Read more... )

My train leaves Waterloo in less than four and a half hours, and I'm still procrastinating about getting ready.

I feel I am approching a "cusp" of major spiritual and emotional significance.

[edit] ...or it could just be over-excitement and lack of sleep. :o)

Can't sleep tonight; my head is swimming with ideas. I got on IM earlier and had a very personal conversation with my old friend Heather that ranged from religion to sex, and then about the time she logged off, jesc came on and we talked about psychology, sex, religion, and a bunch of other stuff. It was great ( Read more... )

So it's been a few days. Bet you thought I was dead.

I met jesc the other day for some tasty Japanese food. I found out she went to my high school. I'd never have known. OMG, yes, there's her freshman picture in the yearbook. Heehee! Love the hair, Jessica! This was written in three columns inside the front cover of that same yearbook, and ( Read more... )

Yesterday morning around 9 o'clock, I set out for a walk around town. From my Northside neighborhood I walked to the downtown library, had brunch at Loaf & Ladle, checked some prices at Sunny Schick, went to the Botanical Conservatory (which I haven't visited since grade school) and took pictures of butterflies, got a smoothie at the Dash In, ( Read more... )

I'm lonely and bored tonight. I want to be somewhere bright and crowded.

My cat likes Doritos.

Three days off! Awesome. Time for some programming, writing, kicking back.

Wandering around town on a bike sounds like fun this week.

I need to make a new icon that says "excitement!"

Do you ever get in one of those moods where you're sick of all your favorite things? I was going to write that I feel like leaving tonight for somewhere far away and reinventing myself as someone else. But that wouldn't change anything ( Read more... )

I am becoming one of those people who does not do what they say they will do, and that's really bad. It's fine to get distracted and lose interest in my own personal projects, but when other people are involved it's pretty evil. I've failed to deliver on two major projects now; the fact that nobody ever showed any interest in the second one doesn ( Read more... )

I don't feel like going to bed, but I'm super-bored and I really should sleep so I can get up for work this afternoon. Dangit...

I still have way too much stuff in my house. Boxes and boxes of junk I never use but can't bring myself to sell or throw away. Either I'm nostalgic about stuff, or I think I'll use it someday ( Read more... )