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Welcome to my journal
Hey y'all. This is my personal journal, which is mostly friends-locked.
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Counted with scrupulous care
Well, my little sis finally caved and got a blog. I would take the credit, except I still owe her for years of tirelessly playing LP with me (that and I haven't updated for an odd number of months.) Anyway, she did a "25 Things about Me" list to kick off and I felt it was only fair to respond in kind. Being rather more verbose (and perhaps a tad ( Read more... ) -
Stranger than you dreampt it
Life is better than fiction sometimes -- so, so much better. This day has been nothing but one endless geekfest after another, starting with my Star Trek class where we did projections for the future in ten, a hundred, a thousand, and a million years. We each did the assignment before class and then cobbled together through spirited, pedantic ( Read more... ) -
Here such a passion is
I just came from an International Education Week seminar on manga and anime called "Cute Girls, Beautiful Boys, and Friendly Monsters." It was awesome. The lecturer, Elise Edwards, taught me over a half dozen new words for different themes and motifs in anime, in the process reminding me just why I love anime so much: it loves the same things I ( Read more... ) -
And it always looks grave at a pun
So tonight Lydia was singing something vaguely Hebrew and it stirred a memory in my mind. There was this one little song I composed either my sophomore or freshman year in high school. I'm fairly sure I was in Pina's class either way. At any rate, it was a cute little song that, like what Lydia was singing, sounded vaguely Hebrew and always ( Read more... ) -
And hit a World at every plunge
So, I'm feeling extra geeky because I finally managed to identify the man in the second row down, first box in the eighteenth Conan opening as Toyama, Kazuha's father. This is a major accomplishment because out of the 41 total I have so far correctly identified, he is possibly the most obscure, appearing a total of about two times in the entire ( Read more... ) -
Like a thunderbolt he falls
I had forgotten just how great it is -- the feeling of acing a test that isn't ridiculously easy. I took my first test in Cultural Geography today, which required a healthy amount of map work regarding Europe and Russia and knowing a great deal about the evolution of the European Union, and for the first time since I came to college, I really feel ( Read more... ) -
Perches in the soul
As anyone who's read my essay earlier this year knows, I've never taken the time to truly understand my Lithuanian heritage. It never seemed relevant. Tonight, however, I was researching how and why the Soviet Union fell in 1991, and I came across the most magical historical event: The Singing Revolution and its sister, the Baltic Way. This is a ( Read more... ) -
The Mystic meeting the ocean tide
In contrast, a jellyfish is very malleable. Despite its fragile appearance, it can survive in ocean depths of great temperature. To move, it must expand and condense itself frequently, though there may be tentacles to help along the way. However, the jellyfish sees the value in simply drifting as well, and is not often hurried.
Which species came ( Read more... ) -
Then we dream of it and sing of it
Hmm. Thus far, this week has mainly been a week of annoyances and inexplicable lack of sleep.
Of course, I'll be the first to admit that most of this is my own doing. Take today, for example. I'm not sure where I got the crazy idea -- I think I ate almost nothing but bread one day or something -- but I decided to try to not eat any carbohydrates for ( Read more... )