i am leaving today for orlando. and tomorrow it begins: ALTIMAR III. one of the best weekends of the year, if not the best. it will be nearly impossible to top altimar i and altimar ii, but trends like this can’t be stopped by mere impossibility. i wonder what is in store for us this time.

now, in more chronological order than not, search engine queries which found my blog (since june 2002–multiple occurences noted in parentheses): Its on the tip of my tongue (4) humorous naked bbq photos from the tip of my tongue tongue cleaning 160a stanford Jon Lipps jonathan lipps stanford jonathan lipps (2) sores tip of tongue (3) Stanford CoHo summer hours divx to vhs fake languages conlangs stanford blog my spacecoaster how to draw cool spaceships Erin Spokes (3) being sick and have a few little sores on tongue i burn my tongue picture medical problem i can’t taste sweet on my tongue human tongues list of tongue sores conversational spanish classes dallas tip of my tongue lyrics tongue how long it takes to move into an apartment ...

i am now officially back from my blog-vacation. not that i ever intended to take one in the first place, but this is what happened: in short, my life became a very interesting mix of the insanely boring and the insanely busy. now, in normal times and under normal conditions, i would only experience one of these extremes at a time; the rest of the day or week or month would be smoothed out by a moderate balance. not so these last two weeks–i have been riding the pendulum daily in a rollercoaster-like arc. ...

so. bored. and. lazy. somebody rescue me, it’s friday night.

i am randomly heading to orange county this weekend (i.e., now). california, this time. see you there.

last week i worked 50 hours. not much time left over for thought. but i did learn something. a very sad and sobering something. it is this: in my life i have yet to experience the power of true action. i realized that what i have been experiencing is passion, in the philosophical sense: being acted upon. in other words, i have felt the power of emotion, felt the power of joy and sorrow and the fantastic intermingling thereof with nostalgia, etc… ...

july enters. now come the heavy dog days. to complement the blog dog days. for some reason that makes me think of logalogalogalogalog and efrafa, hlessil-rah and salamandastron. weird.

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! ...