My Fluxinatrix, I've missed you! I had a bout of illness (as opposed to a bout of injury, which is more commonly my wont), only to return to a new set of yours, which is both lovely as well as fodder for our ongoing alcohol debate. At least I was relieved to read in a previous entry that you don't like white wine.
Eventually, you'll find kindred souls at Your Current Institution, even if they wind up being staff and faculty rather than your supposed peers. I myself would give my eye teeth to be back in the ol' Ivory Tower, where I studied and worked until age 28, and have never quite gotten over it
I keep trying to write a journal entry detailing what my first week back in school was like, but it feels so uninspired. So, instead, here is a rambling collection of thoughts I have had during the past week.
1. My 19th-century Russian literature course is making me absolutely ache to take Russian language courses back up (yes, I took a year of Russian at... Read More
"At the risk of sounding like a completely egomaniacal cunt (FTR, I am not completely so; I have some small measure of humility), I am way smarter than most of the people" - that i am surrounded by.... ( i dont have classes, so had to change the last part...)
I feel this way about the people i work with. they are both intellegent, but are both so closed minded that they refuse to learn anything that is relevant in a modern world. does that make sence? im not so sure it does, but you aren't alone in your feeling.
Once again, please go comment if you were pleased.
I'm sorry that I didn't answer everyone's questions. I'll be answering them in your journals for sure.
I tried filming another cooking one recently (jalapeo cornbread), but my camera screwed up and it was lost to the annals of history. I'll try again soon.
I have had a really weird two weeks or... Read More
This morning, we drink* to the cultivation of weirdness and wildness perpetuus. Life is worthless without adventure and struggle, and I would rather slit my belly than never have to fight again.
This evening, I'm off to Seattle for a good little while, which may or may not see me online as frequently.
Paradox: to embrace Chaos is not to slide toward entropy but to... Read More
can i be drunk on polenta, or sushi? what about drunk with disillusion? ahh, drunkenness. i need some more practice. i like drunk on virtue, though. did you read it somewhere, or is it from your obviously eccentric and fertile mind? more worm pictures, please.
