it's amazing how many different meanings the intonations of "meep" can convey.

[alexr_rwx]

I'm at home, back in Tallahassee :)

And my semester is finally over... it took so long to wrap up, but it's all done. And the interesting things, I'll keep on working on, and the unimportant things will be cast out and trodden under the feet of men, like salt what's lost its saltiness.

I've felt really stale, as a person, for a long time, but I think I can fix that. I have a lot of ideas for how to fix it, and now is the time to make some of these happen. So as a result, I'll probably be a less-sucky person :) That's sort of the point, right?

It might involve reading more; I think it will. Also better concentration and mindfulness, better routines, more frequent sanity checks. Am I doing the right thing? What am I thinking right now? Maybe I can be better about dreaming, if I cultivate the right habits. Lucid dreaming, I've heard, rocks pretty hard. Being a body that does that "mind" thing, it seems important to be well-acquainted with that mind thing that I keep doing.

I found a lot of pictures I'd taken a while ago, like from highschool and the first few years of Tech :)

Also: sleep is probably in order.

Comments

[eponis.livejournal.com]

::pokes:: Be well, Alex. And, um, you haven't responded to my comments or been around for me to IM in a while, and if you're avoiding me, that's fine, but if not, would you like to chat sometime? A friend today was telling me about Parkour (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkour), and it seemed like something you'd love. Links to videos on the bottom of the wiki.

[oniugnip.livejournal.com]

You were in some of the pictures I found :)

And it's not a systematic avoiding people thing; I just haven't been on aim very much. Pardon about the comments, hrm...

(but I'm reading what you're writing, and I won't be upset even if you want to slash Superman/Batman and link in my general direction about it :) )

[samarin.livejournal.com]

I haven't finished deciding whether Parkour is super-geeky or super-interesting. It may we be both. I love this video: Russian Climbing (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=515642196227308929&q=russian+climbing).

[samarin.livejournal.com]

The two l's from my "well" escpaed and had babies! llll l lll ll ll l

[oniugnip.livejournal.com]

That video is amazing, holycrap. How often do those guys get hurt? ...

[oniugnip.livejournal.com]

Also: thank'y kindly for the link :) I hadn't looked at that until just now...

So the "russian climbing" video over there, that's not so much Parkour as just gymnastics in an urban setting, yes? Or how do you feel about all of this?

[agonistes]

Yeah. What eponis said.

[oniugnip.livejournal.com]

*makes the 'my hand is a phone' hand signal and wiggles it near head*

Neither of us have been particularly sociable recently, yo. But this can be remedied!!

[cola-fan.livejournal.com]

Have a beautiful sleep, sir.

I'd be interested in hearing your thoughts about mind, thoughts, and sanity sometime.

[reality-calls.livejournal.com]

Sleep is never in order, unless you're on vacation or something...

And lucid dreaming does rock, if you can manage to get into one. I had my first lucid dream a couple of weeks ago, and a second shortly after that, but I don't think I posted about it... Pity. Also, the whole deal with not being able to tell the time in a lucid dream is a myth-- The microwave clock in the kitchen of my lucid dream house clearly read 3:34. Now I just need to try flipping the light switch next time...

Anyway, I'll be flying back from my study abroad program on July 1st, and landing in Atlanta! Any chance you'll be around at that point?

      "Live from the People's Republic"

[oniugnip.livejournal.com]

I'll be around at that point! Come hang out! Would you like to come visit in Atlanta for awhile?

Also: yow, St. Petersburg! You must be so excited! What are you going to do while you're there? And how long 'til you leave? And will you stay in Colorado 'til then, or are you going back to Florida anytime soon, or... ?

[reality-calls.livejournal.com]

I figure I can stay for a couple o' days, though I might want to inform my folks first...

While I'm in St. Petersburg, I plan to get me some contacts in the Russian mafia and slowly work my way up until I'm in a position to take over the world, what else?  In the meantime I might do some dancing, sample the food, see the sights, get to know my host family, and maybe-- just maybe --improve my Russian a tad.

I leave in exactly eight days now!  And it does look like I'll be in Colorado until then, unless I care to fly back home for the next six days, then fly back to DIA, then fly from there to St. Petersburg, but that seems a bit silly.

See you in Atlanta, July 2nd!

      "Live from the People's Republic"