xanga huh?  I haven't xanga-ed in a while.  I mean, I go around reading people's entries but I usually don't write in it.

well just finished my second workshop of the winter, both at my home at UTS.  good times, good times.  I miss everyone already, but it's time to go back to boston.  I'm getting clearer and clearer now about my ideas for this year and what I want to accomplish, both internally and externally.  It's going to be a wonderful, and challenging year.  I feel it.  There's going to be some big changes around here. 

In other news, I recently re-discovered stevie wonder 'songs in the key of life'

what a crazy amazing album.  I might have to buy this one. 

I think i've gained weight... actually, I have, like 10+ lbs.  It's time to eat normally like a human being again.  No more donuts, and no more waiting until I'm too hungry to care what I eat and eat the worst junks that I don't even like and being cheap and getting more donuts.  I might go to brown rice.  but... ew.  maybe I'll eat like a hippie, and live off of fruits, nuts, granola, and chai tea.  Or somewhere in between with lots of canned fish (I really do like canned fish actually, japanese canned fish).  And maybe no coffee.  I dunno, necessity might dictate this one, but I'd like to make the switch to tea soon.  Coffee is an expensive and relatively time consuming habit for me.  I should exercise, but busting my knee has provided me another (and maybe valid) excuse to not run so much... maybe I'll take up pilates.  Why am I saying all of this?  I don't know, maybe I believe I can be more accountable for these determinations if I know other people know about them.  or if people have ideas on solving:

low budget + college + no time + I live off campus so no time to go home between classes some days + healthy + meat/fish = ......?

if you'd like to apply for a position to cook for us, please, call me. 

what happened to me and xanga?  we used to be real tight, but now, we just kinda pass by each other from time to time

things have been pretty crazy, ykno, lots of ups, and lots of downs, but i feel like god is showing me things all the time through it all. 

i'm glad i'm an english major, I'm actually enjoying what I study.  How long is this going to last?  who knows.  but I'm beginning to realize how maaaaadnesssssss these poets and authors are.  anybody else have a favorite author/poet?  i feel like i've found something so awesome, and there's so much out there to explore.  granted a lot of the content is saturated with individualistic value systems and a messed up view on life, but some of it resounds in a place in my heart... you know, like those tuning forks when one is resonating at the natural frequency the other one (if it's the same) resonates too?  sometimes it challenges me, sometimes it strikes me, sometimes I feel like I brush up against something that's so beyond myself... and when I feel like I have those strokes of genius in my papers, I totally feel like it's god talking to me.  that's the truth.

I'm such a dork, but I'm going to quote shakespeare... (the tempest, act 3 ii.133 and following)

Be not afeared: the isle is full of noises,

Sounds, and sweet airs that give delight and hurt not.

Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments

Will hum about mine ears; and sometimes voices,

That, if I then had waked after long sleep,

Will make me sleep again; and then, in dreaming,

The clouds methought would open and show riches

Ready to drop upon me, that, when I waked,

I cried to dream again.

i've found some good shows~

death cab w/ Ted Leo (but what the heck, it's freaking $30)

reel big fish w/ streetlight manifesto ($17!  yeaaaaa, it's on like 11/22, wednesday I think, if anybody wants to go)

maybe imogen heap (if it was less than $20, which is what it is right now, i would go for sure.... lets see if I still like her stuff after a coupla weeks)

BoDog Battle of the Bands (some of my friends are in it... it's this botb that this mad rich guy started to give $million to the best indie band at the Middle East Club - sounds sweet)

the rapture (maybe, just maybe)

in other news~

so my english major huh?  what am I gonna do with that?  usually when I tell people I'm an english major, they respond with a look of pity:

O_O

"oh........"

and then smile one of those closed mouth smiles

=)

"are you going to be a teacher?"

then I'm like

-_-'

"yea wuteva!"

just playin.  anwyays, being a teacher is a mighty noble profession.  I'd rather be a teacher than most things in this world.  Probably 99% of things.  actually, I really like the idea.  who knows, I might end up one, but right now I'm looking into law.  it's pretty interesting to me, and it's so broad (at this point), I can apply it to literally any field I want to go into.

listening to:

Streetlight Manifesto - Keasby Nights (the re-release)

I laughed so freaking hard when I saw abby's xanga, hahahah, that was tooooo sweet

hey!

so school started and it's busy busy busy.  Lots of reading and writing (duh, I'm an English major, that's what I get)

i'm livin at the church here in boston and things are pretty sweet.  the cat doesn't wake me up as much, and it's pretty cute for the most part.

I'm checkin out all the sweet things that they got goin here at school.  This interfaith club seems really promising, I hope I can work a lot with them in the near future.  Otherwise, I'm just keepin up with my meeting at least 1 new person a day.  It's not so tough cuz I don't know anybody to begin with, so if I just start with the people in my clubs, I've got enough to last me... a long time.  oh!  and I joined the gospel choir - it's so freakin awesome.  we're doin that song kirk franklin - I've been Lookin For You (the music video's up on youtube.com), and I"m pretty psyched about that

I DO miss california - if all my friends and family weren't here on the east coast, who knows.  My English TA lived in berkeley so we were talking about it the other day, and it made me miss it so so much.  I've been lookin for a good taqueria,... ::sigh:: I guess I'll just have to deal with the fact I'm not in cali anymore.  time to learn to love boston.  we may not have great eating, but at least we've got Pete's Coffee, chinatown, and sweet music spots at hand.

hey, if any of yall hear of a good show comin up in boston, let me know (i'm lookin for something good to go to...) so far I haven't found too many things I like this year... maybe the rapture, but who knows, my music taste has changed dramatically these past 2 years.

well... stay cool!

wow, it's 2:26

I've moved into boston at the 4th floor of my church, and classes start next tuesday

this cat here is really cute.  it's orange-ish with some stripes, maybe a coupla months old.  It's cute, but now it's all over me - it wants me to play and it climbs all over me and gently bites my hands.  So anyway, I gave up sleeping.  I'll do it later.

song playing

Mr. Children - Hana~Momento Mori~