awkward and large

Oddly, on occassion, I sense a peacefulness within. You would think that after all I have seen - after all I have suffered - my sould would be a twisted jumble of stress, confusion, and melancholy. Often, it’s just that.

But then, there is the peace.

I feel it sometimes, as I do now, staring out over the frozen cliffs and glass mountains in the still of morning, watching a sunrise that is so majestic that I know that none shall ever be its match.

Brandon Sanderson, The Final Empire

1 week ago

Bran Stark:	Can a man still be brave if he’s afraid?
Eddard Stark:	That is the only time a man can be brave.
	- A Game of Thrones

2 weeks ago

This cat hasn’t given up trying to get in to my kitchen

1 month ago

This is just to show that now I can bike and hold a camera at the same time

1 month ago

Of course, the Earth does move, and the reason we are oblivious to our fantastic velocity through space is that everything on the Earth moves with it, including us, the atmosphere and the ground.

Simon Singh, Big Bang

1 month ago

Like I’m obsessed with little things. Maybe I’m crazy, but when I was a little girl my mom told me that I was always late to school. One day she followed me to see why. I was looking at chestnuts falling from the trees, rolling on the sidewalk or ants crossing the road, the way
a leaf casts a shadow on a tree trunk. Little things. I think it’s the same with people. I see in them little details, so specific to each of them that move me and that I miss and will always miss.

Before Sunset

1 month ago

Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody

J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

1 month ago

So this is more or less what I’m going to work on for thesis.

1 month ago

I know.

I’ve been babbling everywhere about this Belgian guy, posting his video link on Twitter, quoting his song lyrics on my blog, and bringing up his name in every possible conversation.

I watched a live streaming version of his concert last night, and it was fantastic. He was so modest and adorable (and somewhat reminds me of my former Logic teacher). For two hours I forgot that I had no real friends here (real as in those I could talk to without having to have Internet), that my project partner was so fucking smart that I felt so dumb just trying to make a conversation with him; for the entire two hours I just sat and watched and stopped worrying.

I know. I must have sounded like a teenager.

1 month ago

Throughout my childhood I had an increasing sense of loneliness, and of despair of ever meeting anyone with whom I could talk. Nature and books and (later) mathematics saved me from complete despondency.

The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell

1 month ago