ny

a very monday monday.

but it's all relative and requiring of balance and definitely not that simple.

i don't know what i'm doing on this website but this is totally 'an abundance of katherines'-esque

aaaand now i'm back to apush

a kiss

what if michael vick...

audrey hepburn is gorgeous.

do you know any jokes about sodium hypobromite?

numerology and ron artest

75

i haven't written anything in a month or so and it feels like i won't for many more months to come. it's that forlorn wordless feeling. i don't know if that's a good thing.

fugue

e.c.'s surprise dinner and fun and yay. laughter and yay. first week of band camp done (and productive) too. yay! all is well and i'm gonna sleep well.

welcome back to when time is the greatest enemy

pileus iridescent

when they get back

nine eleven journal

day i

mlkjr

prison experiment

night and day

fundamentals

mom's place tonight! yay!

v is for victor squashed under a train

small poignant crisis averted.

whew.

just keep me up, keep me up/

hollywood here we come

my god, facebook.

integrity

never safe as a phantom drum major

and at once i knew i was not magnificent

compulsive

19:56

art by kiss

natalie irish

so much wikipedia everywhere.

i like the page on humans.

daniel schaefer photography

deli

s. hansen photography

man, what happened? to everything. what goes down in a year..

polarization.

westminster abbey wikipedia page

half an hour later..

"is that a bomb?"

Macklemore X Ryan Lewis - Can't Hold Us Feat. Ray Dalton by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis

"you pass to me, you run that way, i pass to you, and you score!"

TFiOS

back from the shortest long trip i've ever taken. tired. gonna finally see neighborhood friends tonight. FINALLY. and yeah

dci finals was incredible. absolutely incredible. madison scouts and phantom regiment stole my heart forever.

if i wasn't sold before on marching drum corps, i am now.

but first i need to reteach myself brass, cause this braceless thing is great everywhere except with that mouthpiece.

but i'm going to do it. and hell, i don't know how yet, but i will. (and that's the end of my little schpeal to get myself pumped up and inspired)

but yeah. i don't want to be in military park or lucas oil anymore as a fan. at least, not until i'm 22.

we'll all wake up tomorrow and everything comes back.

post-conflict potter

traveling through the midwest and seeing colleges and it gets me excited and anxious to leave the city of angels in two years (naively ignoring the fear that'll accompany the newness in two summers' time) but everywhere i've gone that might be my next home (and might not), i've realized that nothing's the same as my first.

this is funny, because home has always been a grey area to me.

mom always told me about how the higher up i grip chopsticks is the closer i'll stay to home, the further back and the further i go. i don't think i've ever paid attention to where i hold them.

it's tradition to always return home for chinese new year.

(but there's holes in the record here)

two years time and i'll be out, and i know i'll be thinking of the two years i had left at home and what i did and how i love home just a little more than i love the idea of the outside world. there's comfort zones and then there's safety nets and i want to break free of both and grasp my youth but keep shards of each with me. or at least, shards back home that i can go back and find when needed.

my city my town my home

"...no crack in a fortress may be accounted small"

dreams

that phone call? i was standing behind those french doors at sunset and the sun never felt so warm.

xvi, thanks mom!

in columbus, too tired to write substantial amounts coherently so i'll type up college reviews later. visited oberlin, case western, and kenyon so far. denison and ohio wesleyan tomorrow.

but the drive from cleveland to columbus was interesting. i slept the first hour but when i woke up we were in the heart of north-central ohio, rural area with nothing but corn fields, cattle, and roadkill on the two lane state highway we were blazing down.

the sky was so big.

so tomorrow i'm leaving for the midwest for a college tour/dci finals [eee] and yeah. i'm bad at packing. here's a rough outlined schedule of what my next two weeks will be.

aug. 2 - fly la -> denver -> cleveland, chill around cleveland

aug. 3 - oberlin in the morning, case western in the afternoon + chillin' in cleveland

aug. 4 - drive cleveland -> columbus, kenyon visit in the afternoon en route, chill in columbus

aug. 5 - denison in the morning, ohio wesleyan in the afternoon, more chillin' in columbus (one of these two days, visit ohio st.)

aug. 6 - fly columbus -> chicago, visit northwestern, chill in chi-town

aug. 7 (hap birt day) - u of chicago visit, free time in downtown (museums/millennium park/being a tourist/etc.) and then authentic deep dish pizza feast for my bday dinner, mmm

aug. 8 - drive chicago -> west lafayette, knox en route (?)

aug. 9 - purdue visit, explore w. lafayette (lol), maybe laundry? probably some work too.

aug. 10 - drive w. lafayette -> indianapolis, chill in indy, butler visit (?), indy speedway visit(?) [i want to kiss the bricks]

aug. 11 - dci prelims! from morning to evening, so much drum corps and i don't know what i'm going to do with myself. it'll be awesome

aug. 12 - explore indianapolis (lol) and hang out in the lot of dci semis, watch corps warmup and geek out

aug. 13 - dci parade in the morning, dci finals at night

aug. 14 - fly indianapolis -> chicago -> la

and chippin' away at summer work while doing it all. and messin' around with my new phone (htc sensation 4g, heh). and reading. so much reading (:D)

leave tomorrow morning from my dad's house around 4:30 am, i almost don't even want to go to bed tonight.

oh, and i'll probably be doing posts about each college i visit and a little review - forces me to summarize all my thoughts and a good place to keep records. yeah.

peace!

when a song takes you back and you can't believe that actually happened.

modern day alexandria

"in going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you dull and blunt the instrument you write with. but i would rather have it bent and dull and know i had to put it on the grindstone again and hammer it into shape and put a whetstone to it, and know that i had something to write about, than to have it bright and shining and nothing to say, or smooth and well-oiled in the closet, but unused..."

-e. hemingway

my favorite part about that tech support call was the pachelbel when i was on hold. and only the pachelbel.

hope everything works out fine on the road..