-Northern Ontario has, in some places, not gotten snow yet this winter ( Read more... )

Sleep is still the best medicine ( Read more... )

I must inform the world, the world that is at least in contact through the journal, that I am in Spain. I am tired, sore, hungover, and in general not feeling particularly well. I arrived last night from London after a wonderful eight days with my folks in the city. Rode the underground a good deal, saw a bunch of artwork at the National Gallery ( Read more... )

Yeah...sooo....

I'm going to Italy in an hour, and then to London to spend Christmas with my family in a week and a day, and then on to Spain for New Years in two weeks.

I'll be traveling with Mark, Matt, Erin, and Ari.

I am thoroughly excited.

Here goes!

My night has been epitomized by listening to Anthony Hopkins recite The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock

It is odd to watch yourself in the life you never threw all in for, a strangeness that belies perhaps a sense of universal irony to use textbook phrase. For the other side, the direction and conduct that creates the greatest mental peace is that which yourself could never allow or function with. And when certain human tendencies come into play, the ( Read more... )

Goodbye, goodbye, to one place or another,
to every mouth, to every sorrow,
to the insolent moon, to weeks
which wound in the days and disappeared,
goodbye to this voice and that one stained
with amaranth, and goodbye
to the usual bed and plate,
to the twilit setting of all goodbyes,
to the chair that is part of the same twilight,
to the way made by my ( Read more... )

Just a quick outline of the news headlines of the day ( Read more... )

1. Was 2006 a good year for you ( Read more... )

Went to Leicester yesterday to celebrate mark's birthday early. Course he didn't realize this until 5 minutes before I left to catch a train. But it went over nicely. Matt came up from Reading, and we all had a grand old time. Booked hostels for chrismas and new years (except my christmas is in london with the family). Really I just need to secure ( Read more... )