...is shaping up to be more than i expected. by quite a bit.

old insults die a slow death, even when you think that you've taught yourself to be more temperate.
but it's all water under that bridge, baby.
best wishes to ya, ___.

rochester is wearing on me already. first of all, it's extremely dry up here in general, and the dryness is made worse by the fact that the dorm uses steam heating. oy. however, it seems also that the humidifier i purchased works...a little too well. i came back to my room after helping jeff move kurtis's marimba back into the annex, and it was ( Read more... )

i'm back in rochester. on the whole, the drive up was 11-12 hours of intermittent rain, accidents on the side of the road, and idiot/jackass truckers. maybe i should have driven up, well, today, but what fun would that have been? i did enjoy driving my new car up; cruise control is a nice feature, at least when the aforementioned circumstances ( Read more... )

first of all, i want to say that i like the smell and taste of a cold cup of coffee or tea than the hot version. i'm not talking about iced tea or coffee here. i'm talking about the stuff that's just honestly cooled off because it's been left to sit on a coaster or desk. they've been neglected because cups of coffee and tea imply leisure, and ( Read more... )

international baccalaureate class of '03 reunion tomorrow.
...this should be interesting. seriously.

just watched this movie. intriguing, and raises very clearly some issues about the morality of vigilantism. the saints' justification for killing is the same justification used for wars of all types, the most important example of which during the 20th century was the second world war. the united states fought germany and italy because our ( Read more... )

happy new year to all of the two or three people that might read this journal. i'm happy that you do. actually, it's not really important that not so many people read it, since it's more of an activity to take up some time while i'm on a break. on the other hand, i actually can work some things out by writing, when i take the time to do it ( Read more... )

christmas. it's late night and i'm watching a rerun of the mtv vma's, because something of an abomination caught my eye: diddy (or whatever permutation of the name puff daddy that he uses now) "conducting" an orchestra that was accompanying some other rapper. he pretty much completely disrespected everything that the art stands for in terms of ( Read more... )

christmas eve. craziness to follow tonight, as my family traditionally visits and eats with the fisher family, whom we've had as friends almost ever since we moved to raleigh. the family has four kids, ranging from 12 to 21, so it's always an interesting change of pace for me. and inevitably it always makes me thankful that i don't have siblings ( Read more... )