Well, I suppose, what Christmas break would be complete without getting sick? Hopefully this way I won't be sick in January. [fingers crossed]

As usual, Christmas break is proving uneffective, and nearly accompishmentless, but atleast it's being mostly relaxing. I'm still not done with my Christmas shopping.

I must find a way to at the very least fit in more movie watching and more book reading. sigh.
yet, for some reason I find myself waiting to watch "the terminal". . . lol, I know, I know. . .

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"the universe is contemplative in Decemeber and he found himself questioning his place in the cosmos, and the place of those near him, again." R.P.Q.
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DONE! :D

"We have yet to capture, I think, the unique combination of greatness and danger, of grandeur et misere, which characterizes the modern age."

Charles Taylor
Sources of The Self: The Making of the Modern Identity
Havard University Press
1989

"I like too many things and get all confused and hung up running from one falling star to another till I drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion." Jack Kerouac

"Here I am, the only living boy in New York" -S&G

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"Oh, what wretched humans we do see. Trying so hard and failing so badly. Would not someone let them die alone?" -R.P.Q.

Notes from class with Dr. T:

Dr. T: "love your prose, fondle your prose."

F: "I don't want to be intimate with my prose!"