5 posts tagged “life”

seroquel_trex.png (thebradtastic)

her breakdown (JPG magazine)

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here's to this life, to pixels cold and dry.

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eve ensler came to speak at GOOG two days ago, and i asked a friend to question her on copyright.

it would seem she does not want to free the Monologues, she likes the cash i guess.

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and then? good night.

I almost caused an accident today, on skates.

I skated slowly, wary of the starting rain, and a bicyclist slowed to say "I've never seen such a thing."

As I passed, I heard and then saw an under-girl say "Jeez Louise", and barely avoid a bike-based crash.

In the news today, May Zhou was finally found, dead, in the trunk of her car.

She was a PhD student here as well, in the department across the street from mine, living somewhere in my apartment complex. She also drove a Toyota Corolla.

I just realized now that it's been a year now since one of my college friends committed suicide. I often hear people talk about how they're suprised and shocked to hear such things, but in this case, for this friend, I was not totally surprised.

Today on TheFarm was like so.

今天上午，I had first-year 中文 with 林老师, chatted with BrianO about his start-up ideas, and skimmed through the Dinosaur book for some last minute review.

After dinner on the Ave, I went to see a friend performing in "The Cherry Orchard", had a macademia nut cookie (two actually), a mini-cheesecake which looked like it could have been a baby-bite sized cupcake (wasn't), and walked home in high spirits, ready to fly home.

I've hit some lows this quarter, but this morning, I read a paragraph in The Art of Happiness that helped me lift my spirits.

During periods of acute crisis and tragedy it seems impossible to reflect on any possible meaning behind our suffering...

Fortunately, however, during times of comparative ease, periods before or after acute experiences of suffering, we can reflect on suffering, seeking to develop an understanding of its meaning. And the time and effort we spend searching for meaning in suffering will pay great rewards when bad things begin to strike.

But in order to reap those rewards, we must begin our seach for meaning when things are going well. A tree with strong roots can withstand the most violent storm, but the tree can't grow roots just as the storm appears on the horizon.

Bad things have struck -- or at least big things -- and I have spent some large chunk of my energy searching for meaning, in life, work, school, self, and others.

Perhaps, then, now is not the time to search, even if my self.now could really use some meaning, found, to guide my way.

are you a conscious robot too?