If you squint a little more, you certainly won’t miss the resemblance.
Merry *coughbwisitbwisetdemmit*Christmas*coughbwisitbwisetdemmit* everyone!
Bah Humbug
24 Wednesday Dec 2008
Posted in Life Oh Life
Careful V2.0
19 Friday Dec 2008
Posted in Life Oh Life
Let’s not go there.
I don’t wanna walk on eggshells again.
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I’ve been in a blogging funk lately but I ain’t gonna waste my time trying to explain why I haven’t been posting these past few days. I’ll just blame work, work, and stupid work. Tsss.
Image by lp-lover.
Sheesh
11 Thursday Dec 2008
Posted in Books, Life Oh Life
Events are cowards: they didn’t occur singly, but instead they would run in packs and leap out at <you> all at once.
Neil Gaiman | Neverwhere
S.A.D.
08 Monday Dec 2008
Posted in Life Oh Life
Seasonal affective disorder (SAD), also known as winter depression or winter blues, is a mood disorder in which people who have normal mental health throughout most of the year experience depressive symptoms in the winter or, less frequently, in the summer, repeatedly, year after year. The US National Library of Medicine notes that “some people experience a serious mood change when the seasons change. [ Wiki ]
This should explain why I’m extra bitchy and my sinusoidal mood’s been swinging like crazy nowadays. What the hell — I thought I was immune to this?
Not So Pleasant News
02 Tuesday Dec 2008
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The Houston Comets — winner of four WNBA trophies and one of the eight original franchises in the league — is no more.
Fans discuss and lament. This almost happened to my team a year ago. Thank God these women exist or else the Storm would have been dead (or stuck in Oklahoma where Kevin Durant and the rest of the Sonics are now). So, thank you, Force 10 Hoops.
PS — Aaww, I thought I forgot the sting of losing in the first round.
、E009 College」UConn v. OU
01 Monday Dec 2008
Posted in Sports
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STORRS, Conn. (AP)—Renee Montgomery had a career-high 30 points and matched the Connecticut record with 13 assists to help the top-ranked Huskies rout No. 4 Oklahoma 106-78 on Sunday night.
Montgomery, who got the first double-double of her career, tied the assists record set by Laura Lishness in 1991 against Seton Hall.
Maya Moore added 27 points and 12 rebounds and Tina Charles had 18 points, 10 rebounds and four blocks for UConn (5-0). Freshman Caroline Doty scored a career-high 18 points, going 6-for-6 from behind the 3-point line.
Danielle Robinson had 19 points and Ashley Paris added 17 points and 13 rebounds for Oklahoma (4-2). Courtney Paris had 14 points and 14 rebounds for her 98th straight double-double, extending her NCAA record.
It was the first time Oklahoma gave up over 100 points since losing to Connecticut, 102-80, in the NCAA regionals in 2000.
– Doug Feinberg, AP
It'll Come
27 Thursday Nov 2008
Posted in Life Oh Life, Photo Blog
I say love will come to you
hoping just because I spoke the words that they’re true
as if I offered up a crystal ball to look through
where there’s now one there will be two.
Love Will Come To You
Indigo Girls
*** ***
For all my friends who are currently nyor-nyor-ing about life, love (and the lack of it), being alone, and other shit like that. It’s just S.A.D. It’ll pass, guys, it’ll pass.
Numbers Words Blech
25 Tuesday Nov 2008
Posted in Geekdom, Life Oh Life
image via techeblog
I’m not good with words. I think I like numbers better. But even through numbers and equations, I still can’t formulate anything sensible and/or articulate (enough) to describe how awesome the time I spent with you was.
** Excuses, excuses for not writing a lot lately. I’m so sorry I’m in such a weird funk.
Autumn
24 Monday Nov 2008
Posted in Japan Stuff, Photo Blog, Travels
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My sorrow, when she’s here with me,
Thinks these dark days of autumn rain
Are beautiful as days can be;
She loves the bare, the withered tree;
She walks the sodden pasture lane.
Robert Frost
My November Guest
Last Saturday we trudged over to Tachikawa City to roam around the Showa Park. The colors were awesome. It was one of the best photo-sessions in my short lifespan as a pseudo-picture-taker. I dunno if it was because the reds and yellows and oranges were so vivid or maybe because I was just in the right mood. Either way, it was fun, fun, fun. Also, spending the day with awesome friends didn’t hurt. A big shout-out to Guia, Jac, Mayen, Vanush, Sheen, Meemers, and Moogs for such a great day.
「Kyomizudera、EMonk
21 Friday Nov 2008
Posted in Japan Stuff, Photo Blog, Travels
Kyomizudera (Pure Water Temple) is built into the side of Otowayama mountain on the east side of Kyoto, Japan. The original temple dates back to 780 AD and remains associated with Nara/Hosso Buddhism, the oldest sect within Japanese Buddhism. It was built without the use of nails. The people who built Kyomizudera understood. When you walk along its wooden promenade, look out over the chasm and see the mountains and trees above and the whole city of Kyoto laid out beneath your feet, you can have only one thought: This is why we build temples. You are surrounded by a sea of wooden gates, stone guardians, lanterns, pagodas and stairs that just keep going up. Then, suddenly, Kyomizudera. A temple so large you can’t even see it. Because it’s built into the mountainside, supported by 139 pillars, and all you can do is stand inside and look out. [Source]