Be the change you want to see in the World

About Me

"Though here at journey's end I lie in darkness buried deep, beyond all towers strong and high, beyond all mountains steep, above all shadows rides the Sun and Stars forever dwell: I will not say the Day is done, nor bid the Stars farewell." -Sam, The Return of the King

My Interests

T.S. Elliot, Phantom of the Opera, Frost, Alexander Pope, Tennyson, Yeats, fondue, creme brulee, sushi!, Prague, East Berlin, Genetic engineering, Hesse, Dostoyevsky,technology, research, molecular biology, biochem, Lemony Snicket's books, O.S. Card, C.S. Lewis, Keats, Wordsworth, etc....

I'd like to meet:

I'd Like to Meet...
mspobj type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowScriptAccess="never"Christ, Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci, Houdini, Boccherini, Seitz, Newton, Albert Schweitzer, Steve, Linus Pauling, Sallust, Petronius, Dostoyevsky, Gandhi, John Lennon--"I have one request: may I never use my reason against truth." Elie Wiesel

Music:

Classical music all the way, but hey classic rock, alternative, indie, anything really, oh yes, and electric pop, 80s, radiohead, the beatles (of course), bob dylan, sufjan stevens, many of my friends.

Movies:

Amelie-The pianist- Losing Isaiah- Lemony Snicket's a Series of Unfortunate Events- The Incredibles- Dead Poet's Society

Television:

don't watch tv/ don't like it. Prefer movies

Books:

too many...I love almost all books--religion, philosophy, ethics, a short history of nearly everything, romantic lit/music---during the romance period!, different cultures. lemony snicket's a series of unfortunate events, os card, underground man, dostoyevsky, thus spoke zarathustra, pirandello, brothers karamazov, what i saw (josef roth), parliament of man,js mill, ayn rand, post-modernist writers, late romantics, too many, ahahahah.

Heroes:

gandhi. Albert Schweitzer. Russian authors.

My Blog

For, boy, however we do praise ourselves, Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm,

Reminiscing about my latest encounter with the closest thing to hypnosis-fainting. Yes, as shameful and stupid as I felt at the time, I did faint much to the horror and shock to my parents who at the...
Posted by Be the change you want to see in the World on Fri, 24 Aug 2007 08:23:00 PST

The SONG

AS of yet there is no set tune to the awesome lyrics that follow. I simply carry the melody somewhere in the deepest cavern of my heart. Here it goes. Puffins need more friends. Love, affection, loyal...
Posted by Be the change you want to see in the World on Sat, 14 Jul 2007 03:52:00 PST

sleep the friend or enemy?

why can't i sleep. ahahaha.
Posted by Be the change you want to see in the World on Mon, 25 Jun 2007 12:42:00 PST

New Vandy Research Results Skin Color v. Wage

Skin color and salary: Lighter and taller equals a bigger paycheck for immigrants, study says Interviewers in Professor Joni Hersch's study used an 11-point scale to report survey par...
Posted by Be the change you want to see in the World on Fri, 09 Feb 2007 03:19:00 PST

out of the maelstrom

Nashville pedestrians have very little fear. They are audacious, aspiring ambulators anxious to get somewhere and often risk their lives in order to do so. I can only imagine how it's worse in ot...
Posted by Be the change you want to see in the World on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 05:51:00 PST

My World of Paradoxes

A paradox means a statement that seems self-contradictory but may be true. Here are some deep thoughts, which are as insightful, as they are scary. A Columbine student wro...
Posted by Be the change you want to see in the World on Fri, 26 Jan 2007 05:51:00 PST

November Leaves

Silence creeps in the darkness deep as the leaves start falling down. Falling down, falling, the darkness falling down. The tempest calm and the whisper loud, a still small echo resounds. Wine and oc...
Posted by Be the change you want to see in the World on Sun, 12 Nov 2006 06:57:00 PST

Shakes

Okay so the other day more like the day before today, I went on sparknotes (classic, i know) to do some henry iv reading. Being the clever person that I am, I read the No Fear Shakespeare versio...
Posted by Be the change you want to see in the World on Tue, 26 Sep 2006 09:10:00 PST

2ND POST

Ok, I seriously need to update. I apologize. Hmmm...not that people will comment or anything. It's just really hard to update on like 3 different blogs. Well, anyways. I'm glad I have new friends, mak...
Posted by Be the change you want to see in the World on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

so-crates

The unexamined life is not worth living at all. ~Socrates
Posted by Be the change you want to see in the World on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST