Wednesday, May 17, 2006
spot the discworld title!
i've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. they don't teach you how to love somebody. they don't teach you how to be famous. they don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. they don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. they don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. they don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. they don't teach you anything worth knowing.
--neil gaiman
things are changing, shifting so imperceptibly that its pretty easy to fool myself into believing that nothings happening. superficially i'm just marking time till the Next Big Thing, and day after day is slipping away comfortably and conveniently; not as good a thing as you mught have been led to believe-- at least thats my personal opinion. its an extremely rare and unnnerving state of affairs for me.
an ancient chinese curse: may you live in interesting times.
well i guess im too hung up on adrenaline and navelgazing to enjoy marking time. or maybe im just a restless shiftless little poop who cant seem to enjoy peace when its handed to her on a silver platter, even when its cut into neat cubes and speared through the middle with a cocktail toothpick.
things are going.. not well. just satisfactorily. still waiting expectantly for something, anything, to happen. i suspect it's going to be bad, but maybe its just because ive a cheerfully-twisted sense of humour, and am self-ironically pessimistic.
the toread list is dwindling rapidly thanks to the goodly amount of free time i have. thank goodness for libraries, i say.
to phuket i go! and turkey, and hopefully greece, and australia. wunderbar.
+ fictions&fires
10:12 PM
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plangere, latin: to strike, or to lament.
in the depth of winter i finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
--albert camus
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to be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best night and day to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
-- ee cummings
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