jen and i attended tedxuofm at the michigan theater earlier today. the local, student-organized conference featured a collection of speakers giving a series of talks to share their 'crazy ideas worth spreading. before we knew it, 8 hours had passed. one man shared his attempt to live completely trash-free for an entire year save for food scraps and ( Read more... )

sometimes my stress manifests itself in strange ways. not uncommon, just strange. my left eyebrow is meticulously plucked, and my right has overcompensated and now i am slightly asymmetrical. more-so than i am inherently ( Read more... )

oh my, my tired soul.

the ten rules towards happiness, as written by tolstoy when he was eighteen years old ( Read more... )

"Postmodern irony and cynicism's become an end in itself, a measure of hip sophistication and literary savvy. Few artists dare to try to talk about ways of working toward redeeming what's wrong, because they'll look sentimental and naive to all the weary ironists. Irony's gone from liberating to enslaving. There's some great essay somewhere that ( Read more... )

what do neurons growing even feel like, anyway ( Read more... )

Jenny:

Here is my first water color art work and is my Thanksgiving gift for you. Hope you like it.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Jing Wang


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i will not go through life on autopilot ( Read more... )

i haven't heard from my dad in a month. i haven't heard from my mom in two days. (that's like a month, for her ( Read more... )

i got myself another blog, but i can't seem to let this one go. i've had it for so long that it almost feels like cheating. in any case, i'll probably continue with this one just because i've scattered my thoughts on far too many other types of media for me to keep track of them all ( Read more... )