I can't for the life of me remember who said that, all I know is, I've been thinking this for years and years. Guess I stumbled across it when I was still a little kid (the stuff I read... pretty much anything that I could get my hands on.).

That's awesome, Hira.

Music is so powerful. Two days ago, I was bummed and picked a random album on my iPod. Then the 5th song came on, and it just *hit* me. Like, BAM everything made sense. Love those moments.
(And if you're curious, the song was "Rinse" by Vanessa Carlton.. not my favorite singer, in fact one that I rarely listen to, but somedays...)

It's weird how sometimes "random" music just jibes so well with life.

Aww boo on lack of coolness.. But I'm sure stuff will happen that will at least bring excitement, if not exactly the kind of excitement you were looking for. Life is funny that way.
Like when you notice a packet of ranch sauce exploded, and you say outloud "Oh everything's covered in oozy white stuff" and people overhear you and look at you weirdly... haha that was a good 5 minutes of "what the...?" during lunch rush :P

Be careful when you get all wistful about excitement. Losing a bag of books in the bus was certainly not what I planned on happening. And if no one returns the books I'll have to pay the library for them. Or look for the replacements.

On the other hand, after an hour or so of panic, I decided to grit my teeth and now I have an outline for my paper (due on Monday) nicely falling into place. I am mollified. Still too much excitement.

Moments...

It's been one of those weeks... when, as soon as you think all's well again, life sneaks up on you and punches you in the stomach. (I'm still not convinced it's actually Friday.)

Anyway...
After some internal debatte, I got onto my bike and went off to the vegetable farm. And let me tell you... I had so many Moments they'd have made up for a whole month of sneaky, stomach-punching life.

...soft, golden autumn sunset light...

... a sunflower field...

... leaves rustling under my tires...

... the colour of a freshly mowed buckwheat field...

...clumps of young nettles by the roadside, with campion and cranesbill in between...

...picking up an onion and brushing off the dirt and the loose, dry outer layers, and feeling how clean and smooth and perfectly round it is underneath...

...Dog Roses between the fields, full of rosehips...

...waving to "my" farmer as he passed me on his tractor...

...thinking about how utterly stereotypical I am, on my bike with a basket and a rucksack full of organic vegetables, and knowing I like who I am...

...letting the bike roll down a hill and thinking this is what riding a broom must be like, smooth and swift and effortless, with the wind in my face and my hair...

...coming back to this place that's still not quite home, and looking at the Japanese Creeper on the walls, and the maple trees, bright red and yellow...



it seems to me each season has a different kind of happiness. Autumn happiness is quiet and wistful.

KA-BOOOM!

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Hiragana wrote:

Yes, writing this paper may be stressful but it's also good for me

Oh truer words are never uttered as far as schooling goes... so many times I think "I know how to do this, I can just skip it.... but I should do it, because it'll be good for me." And I feel I'm much better off now because I do those problems I think I know how to do. It just means I know how to do them *better* now. And isn't that just the best feeling, when you're taking a test and breeze through it because you know what you're doing :P Or you score better than everyone else, even if you took more time. Either way, doing something because it's good for you is the best thing you can do.

Of course, sometimes you just get to a point where you say "This is stupid. I'm done." Heh.. was working on a physics problem and I successfully expanded the function to accomodate for horizontal range in a vacuum, but when I tried to expand it and include air drag, it all went to crap. I had a great function, I just couldn't get it in the form he wanted. After probably 2 hours of working on this problem (just the part where I was trying to get it in the right form) I gave up, because all it was was algebraic manipulation, and I'm sure you can write a computer program to do it. I wasn't doing anything productive, and it sure as heck wasn't physics! *grr*

Anyway. See, this is what happens when I work super late and then come home and eat food...

Haha for real. It's always worth it when you have a "This is so cool!" moment in the middle of "Ungh but I don't wanna..."
Too bad everything isn't like that. There always seems to be stuff that you have to do that you know won't be fun and it may or may not have a point. Crappy crap.

PS- my roommate fed me pie. methinks that was not such a good idea...

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<--- is listening to Sousa marches. Nerd alert!

Heh, reliving old band days :P Ahh late nights :)

Oh man, I'm listening to this CD recorded my freshman year of high school.... our top band got invited to play at a national convention (super freakin cool) and I remember our director making a big deal about how cool it was that we were gonna play one movement from one piece, because it was one of those standards that you only play if you're really good, and you can't mess it up.. and I remember hating it... but I just listened to that movement.. and it's so cool... and that whole piece is good.. Lincolnshire Posy by Percy Grainger..  I've played all of it, and performed most of it.. so awesome.. I would love to play it again..

I am now listening to ambient/chillout/trance music. Placed all of that in winamp, randomized list, turned shuffle on. Smooooooooooth.

*falls down in a giggly fit*