My last girlfriend gave me a seashell from a trip to Belmar, New Jersey I thought it was incredibly sweet, preferring sentimental gifts to practical ones. Inside, she rubber-cemented a picture we took together with some friends of hers at one of those board-walk photo booths at Ocean City, Maryland. It was a fun trip […]

“I don’t think man comes to faith firsthand except through despair or to knowledge of God except through doubt. It has to be a kind of watershed experience.” Francis B Sayre < p> After my psych exam (I’ll try not to bore you with the details of my day as so many other people do), I […]

“Continued pleasure wears off….Pleasure is always contingent upon change and disappears with continuous satisfaction.” Nico Frijda < p> < p>

“No happiness lasts for long.” Seneca, Agamemnon < p> < p> Suffering through history lectures has one advantage–I will do anything for a more entertaining diversion. Fortunately, in addition occasional rounds of Sid Meirer’s Civiliation 3™ and ePSXe (the best Playstation emulator out there), the class offers time for me to xangafye my thoughts. < […]

“Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.” Carl Sagan < p>

“O God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannit be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish one from the other.” Reinhold Niebuhr < p> Still up reading psych. Xanga is a demanding and time-consuming mistress.

“I have also learned why people work so hard to succeed: It is because they envy the things their neighbors have. But it is useless. It is like chasing the wind….It is better to have only a little, with peace of mind, than be busy all the time iwth both hands, trying to catch the […]

“The human understanding is most excited by that which strikes and enters the mind at once and suddenly, and by which the imagination is immediately filled and inflated. It then begins almost imperceptibly to concieve and suppose that everything is similar to the few objects which have taken possession of the mind.” Francis Bacon, Nobum […]

“Most people reason dramatically, not quantitatively.” Oliver Wendell Holmes Yea what? This is a picture for all of you anime fans out there. Despite the harshness of my gesture and the gruesome features of my face, I assure you I’m quite a dear friend. Get to know me and find out! I think it’s spectacular […]

Gosh Im such a loser. You know what I did till 2:00 AM? Worked on the ASA website … *Sigh I shouldve slept more cuz now Im beat! Later I get to go help out with the decorations for the upcomming VSA Cultural Show! YAY! Itll be tomorrow, and hopefully it turns out well. I […]

“Suddenly, it was important to know if I could be like other men, if I could ever ask a woman to share a life with me. Having intelligence and knowledge wasn’t enough. I wanted this, too. The sense of release and looseness was strong now with the feeling that it was possible. The excitement that […]

“In creating these problems, we didn’t set out to fool people. All our problems fooled us, too.” Amos Tversky He looked at her with a sidelong glance. A haggard day’s moss covered his granite chin, suggesting the rigors that the day had brought. Despite any weariness he may have felt, a smirk brightened his clouded features. He managed […]

“When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it; this is knowledge.” Confucius, Analects Her name is Rosemary. She’s half russian and half chinese. Kris says she thinks she’s beautiful … I would like to agree but […]

“Once you have a belief, it influences how you perceive all other relevant information. Once you see a country as hostile, you areliekly to interpret ambiguous actions on their part as signifying their hostility.” Robert Jervis My boss, a couple friends, and I were talking about one of our co-workers this afternoon–I shall refer to […]