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well, it’s been quite a while hasn’t it. finals week came and went, without much in the way of commendation. i fared decently in terms of grades–not too great, but not failing. but god damn mediocrity (that’s a sincere request, not profanity). you know, i really want to be excellent in my academic life, but i just can’t seem to bring myself to get there anymore. i suspect some deeply rooted problem which if i’m smart i’ll get sorted out, with god’s help, before september. ...

i claim, nothing embodies mediocrity more than sin. you might respond, but nothing embodies evil more than sin, for isn’t that just what is coequal with it? and i say, then nothing embodies mediocrity more than evil. isn’t that obviously true? we all commit evil, but there are few to none who can rise above it. there is nothing heroic about evil [i say to myself: and haven’t i always wanted to be a hero?]. it is not difficult to be evil. evil is a failure. case study: it is not the genius of the archvillian which is evil; if it were, my point would be refuted. no, the genius, the strength, they are good–it is the archvillian himself who is evil, and if evil he is, it is only out of a failure to be good. ...

no time for reading neither for writing a blog there is work to do how’s that? a little haiku for you all. haikus make me think of lush chinese rainforests. are there rainforests in china? i don’t know. moving and organizing takes a lot of time. buying crap takes a lot of time. working less than 8 hours a day takes a lot of time. goodbye to my dreams of lazy summer evenings spent reading good books! ...

[computer wakes up in kingscote]

[computer leaves soto]

my room is strangely empty without a roommate. now it is just me and david bazan, et al.

the great battle in the world [and my soul] these days is between joy and cynicism. the face of evil i see is not hate, anger, or death: it is passive, sarcastic, and useless, with lips twisted in a knowing sneer.

the blogger template updater is not saving my changes. i guess no webpage updates for a while.

summer fell upon me like an unexpected kiss. mmmm, it’s good to be done. on friday morning, i woke up at 8:20, rolled out of bed and on to my bike (it was waiting beneath my bed like a trusty steed). i was seated in the room for my philosophy 102 examination by 8:30. at roughly 8:50am, i left the room after stamping my seal on the completed exam. i was sound asleep by 9:05. ...

the all-nighter went well. i got my paper and my spanish presentation done, and both of them turned out acceptably, i hope. unfortunately i wasn’t able to sleep at all on wednesday, because after class i worked on finishing up my new song so i could play it at the coho. i also learned pedro’s “options” to cover. the show itself didn’t go that well…i felt…tired. and it came out in the first 2 or 3 songs. i scrapped “options” after i sucked on the first few lines. plus we were running sound out of another guy’s system, which was very big and so it made me a little nervous. there were quite a few people there too. oh well. it made me resolve to actually practice my songs, because they are rather hard for me to play sometimes and i need to have them down before i do shows. i forget my lyrics a lot too. ah well, it was fun. i ran sound for mikey’s band ‘midget mosaic’. they played a 1.5hr set, so i was really tired by the end. they had me come up on one of their last songs and play lead guitar, and that was cool of them; they’re neat guys. ...