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Wednesday, March 30th, 2011So. Has the Austrian Apple lost its schein? No. Not hardly. What did I do today? Well I woke up at 7 AM, probably a few minutes after most of my loved ones at home went to sleep for the night. I have been waking up every day minutes before my alarm. I have [...]
Austria: Arriving and Starting to Settling In
Sunday, March 27th, 2011It’s taken me until the 3rd night here in Austria before I have done so much as even attempted to figure out how the converters work for me to plug in my laptop. Luckily, I don’t need to buy any new cables, even for appliances with 3 prongs, while the European plugs only have two [...]
Consensual Reality
Tuesday, December 7th, 2010My thoughts have been focusing around time in varying capacities these days. Understanding time as relative to each perceiver has greatly influenced my way of looking at life — I have been kicking around this term in my head that’s something like “consensual reality.” You can start from many trains of thought — one I [...]
Mountaintop Removal: Burning the House to Keep Warm
Thursday, October 28th, 2010Chances are if you go to school at James Madison University, this is being illuminated in part by electricity from a power plant burning coal from Kayford Mountain in West Virginia. If you are a student, professor, or employee at JMU, this story is your story. Don’t tune out just yet; I’m not asking you [...]
Graduation is a silly thing.
Sunday, July 25th, 2010Graduating college is a ridiculous thing to do. The night before is ridiculous. The morning before is ridiculous. The ceremony is ridiculous. The faux diploma (difauxma?) is ridiculous. The traffic afterwards is ridiculous. The idea that you are in some way more qualified to do stuff, ready to move places (emotionally or physically), or that you [...]
What are we *now*?
Thursday, April 29th, 2010I am wrapping up my last real semester in college in the next 7 days, and I’m experiencing a variety of extremely interesting feelings. The intention of this post is simultaneously to remind my fingers how to type, as I am not quite finished yet, as well as to convey to the people I love [...]
Wake Up and Graduate
Wednesday, April 21st, 2010We were in a van, crowded, comfortable. On the way to a stadium, at which the Redskins play football, and it happened to be Georgetown University. The stars were beautiful. I thought they might have been just moonlight hitting countless clouds in the sky. Perfection. One of the most beautiful things I’ve ever experienced. I [...]
f(conjunction) = 1, 2.
Wednesday, March 31st, 2010and you don’t understand the way that I feel and it’s not nearly my own fault. and it’s not yours. and that’s why we need to let it be. and he doesn’t understand either, but he does just that. and she doesn’t even know. but she would if she did. and you, of all, you. [...]
Language, Qualms, and Toki Pona
Sunday, March 21st, 2010So I have been considering systematically eliminating words from my daily conversations. I don’t know the way I’d do it, but something like a random number generator that selects a word from a list, perhaps starting with a list of nouns, and not using that word. Anyway, I don’t think I’m going to actually follow [...]
Things: We Forget To See God
Monday, February 1st, 2010In a very similar style to the evolution/discovery of a mantra from a while back… I am frustrated with my abilities regarding expressing myself. What do I mean when I say certain things? A simple expression of how I’m feeling turns out to hold a lot more. Dissecting my thoughts as follows reveals a bit [...]
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