Moments of Always Within Never

Eternity eludes us.

It's been ages since I've written; It's as if I've taken nearly half of 2011 off! I see no harm in attempting to begin posting regularly again, but I do see pending difficulty if I am to tell myself to spend more time with the computer shut off in order to avoid putting to much pressure on myself through the method of a "sforzando" type of studying (see here).

With the end of my brief affair with Summer Semester I earlier in this falsely-endless-three-month-extravanganza-summer, I can't say that I've been up to much more intellectual reading. I did read the Nacirema article to fulfill my prolonged curiosity after the end of Culture and Humanity (ANTH 152), but otherwise, I've been watching things and reading fiction.

Today I finished The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery, which I really didn't expect to make me cry so much. I bought it as a gift for an individual a while back on a whim, without even reading it, thinking that it'd be quirky and entertaining, but oh boy, it definitely wasn't quirky and entertaining in the way I thought it would be. It was certainly more sedate and more thought provoking (yay for books that embody the authors' philosophies) than I had thought it would be. The best bits of the book, I think, are the Profound Thoughts by the girl Paloma Josse. My eyes still kind of ache from the deluge of emotion that accosted me in the end. Oh, furthermore, I sat with a dictionary while reading this book "just because", or rather, so I could actually learn some new words and read actively, to some extent.

I also read The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold earlier this month, which kind of just made me horrified but left me with a slight feeling of closure in the end. Also interesting. I don't know if I should pick up The Lovely Bones to read or not, though. I'm not so keen on these trends of death and tears.

Let's not forget our friend Ayn Rand and The Fountainhead. Such ideals of fortitude.

As of late, I've been enjoying Torchwood, some sort of Star Trek, and X-Men stuff (Particularly X-Men: First Class). Look at this accumulation of dorkiness. Too bad I haven't thrown in some anime into this mix.

Great things in this past week:

• Passing my road test on walk-in! Woot woot!
• 200 Pounds Beauty (romantic comedy watching with sisters)
• Sleepover at Kat's (delicious food, eating together like family, crazy random conversation, cute dogs [the only ones that have ever stolen my affection so much], intense battles, IMPROVISATION! [and using our brains], and playing on the Wii until nearly 5 in the morning)
• Surprise for the committee from Jump Start God
• Bubbies ice cream. Mm.

Back to the dorms and back to school in less than a month. Here we go.

P.S. Somebody buy me Source Code, new shoes (Converse!), SANDALS?! (kidding, totally unnecessary), a fancy camera, The Elegance of the Hedgehog, my Bioorganic Chemistry textbook, and some milk tea!