the frozen north

Ξ Monday, 31 Dec 2007 at 01:26 | → Comments Off | ∇ Normal |

    it’s been a long time since I’ve written, I know. I got to Oregon on the evening of the 22nd, after staying up until about 06.30 finishing my Pindar paper. phew. over the last eight days I’ve done six PhD applications (they take time), and hung out with family and friends for a nice Christmas. it promises to be a great New Year’s as well. I’ve missed Nicole while I’ve been gone up here, but I’ll be back soon enough, and I’m looking forward to seeing her again. she had a good time with her fam for a couple of days as well, from what I heard. it’s been relaxing though up here for sure.
    unfortunately, I need to get to sleep soon here, given the fact that it’s almost 01.30. I’ve not done all that much these days except applications, watching LOST season 3 with the fam, and hanging out with a few friends. tonight I hung out with Vanessa, which was awesome and magical as always. tomorrow we’re hanging out as well, and having a small party at her house. it’ll be a great time. i’m scattered though. i’m not able to remember a lot of things from the last week or so; most of it is beginning to run together, as is wont when on holiday. the passage of time fades and becomes hazy.
    anyways, I’m using my sister’s computer, so I should get going. but I am still alive, of course, as you know. it’s cold here. as i drove back from Vanessa’s tonight there was ice on the road, and the moisture froze on the back of the car. I haven’t seen such cold in a long while; it never really gets that cold in San Francisco. I hope Nicole is warm enough down there… I feel sort of bad that I’m not there to keep her warm, but as I said above, I’ll be back in due time. it’s been nice being up here and not worrying about anything… or much of anything, at least.
    i’m fading, though. time for sleep. all of you have a wonderful night.

 

forge the bright-lid

Ξ Sunday, 16 Dec 2007 at 00:10 | → Comments Off | ∇ Normal |

    and my papers, too, please. the semester is winding down, I’m stressing out about the myriad of papers due, and that’s pretty much how the cards and chips have fallen. in the next three or four days I’ll have finished these monstrous papers for which I have prepared so much (or not enough?), and procure transcripts and send off recommendation letters to PhD programs, and I shall win through to the end. everything is a mush in my head, this sort of proto-primordial soup that is just aching to come into being, both on paper and in my relatively blank Word documents. it will all come together.
    after all of this is done, I want to have a very long nap. maybe even a katabasis, so i can see what I can learn from those ‘hence.’ in either case, Sleep is weighing heavily upon my mind. I’ll return to my former brilliance and happiness of spirit once all of this is done, I trust. great-souled I must be in these trying times. goodnight.

 

cruel Father Time

Ξ Sunday, 02 Dec 2007 at 01:39 | → Comments Off | ∇ Normal |

    I returned from Disneyland a week ago today, after having one of the best times of my life there. I’ll post pictures later — Nicole has a number of them on her computer. I didn’t take all that many, but the ones I took are of Nicole and I and some random features of Disneyland. the castle looked nice with the snow and lights on it, and I got shots of it both at night and during the day, so that’s cool. it was a blur of ephemeral yet seemingly eternal fun, a respite from the crushing, Jovian pressure that grad school has exerted throughout this semester. I was surrounded by loved ones and there was nothing to fear but time itself, the slow ticking of that fleeting week. (more…)

 

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