One
it only takes one look
one touch
one smile
one wine tour
one word
one morning
one taste
one goodbye
one sigh
one night
one glass of wine
one Sunday
I'm yours.
For T – 11.24.08
I find myself smiling more often
since you have come into my life.
This is no easy feat you have managed.
You ask why I stare?
I cannot help but to find myself
lost in the depths of your beauty.
If only you could possibly see through my eyes.
I find myself feeling anxious when
your face crosses my mind.
In the same instant I am nervous and happy.
Nervous because I have to worry,
that I don’t make you nearly as happy as you make me.
Nervous because I want you to know,
that every single day I am thinking about you.
This is at once overcome by the happiness that you bring.
The way you laugh melts my heart.
Your smile makes my heart stop.
When our lips touch
I have to remind myself to breathe again.
Imagine waking from a dream,
only to find yourself in a better place and time.
It is a serenely disorienting experience.
When I awake and see your beautiful face
resting there on my chest,
and I feel your body tangled around mine
I know all of this is going to be ok.
What’s up. Where I’m at.
December 11th. December 11th at 11AM I will finally graduate with a bachelor's of science degree in psychology. It's been a long journey. Let me repeat that (I'm starting to sound like Joe Bidden). It's been a VERY long journey. I'm not going to get into details because if you don't know what I'm talking about then you don't need to know.
So what's going on? What's the plan? I plan to move to New York City in the very near future. That would obviously imply that I'll need to find a place to live, and I'll need someone to employ me as well. These are all things I'm still working out as we speak. The wheel has been put in motion, and now I'm just hoping its momentum will promptly lead me to where I want to be.
So why New York City? The better question would be: why not? The intelligent reply would be "because it's absurdly expensive". Well yes, it is. Fair point actually, touché. Ignoring this minuscule stumbling block I'll answer the "so why New York City" question instead I guess. "I [have] to go and see about a girl." That would be part of it. I'll keep the sappy details to myself, but I'll just say that she's the girl of my dreams. She makes the little things in life extraordinary. The other significant reason for this move will be because, quite simply, I need to get out of Rochester. Excluding my brief stay (2 1/2 years on and off) at Vassar, I've never lived in a different place. It's definitely time to fix that.
So that's the deal. What's left to do? Minor things, ya know. I need to graduate (which includes finishing my finals), find a job, find a place to live, and then actually move down to NYC. Wish me luck!
How to download any song from Favtape.com
I've had my doubts about posting this information because quite honestly I'm a big fan of Favtape.com and I don't want to see them get in trouble and/or close. That being said, I suppose it can't hurt that much to put this information out there. Here's a quick and simple way to download any song that you can play on Favtape.com
- Use Firefox (it's not required but we all know that when you use IE god will kill kittens).
- Go to Favtape.com (duh) and find a song that you want.
- Click the name of the song to begin playing it.
- When you hover over the name of the song you should see something like this in the status bar: http://favtape.com/play/**Artist**/**Song**.mp3 (**Artist** and **Song* obviously replaced with the appropriate information). Click on the image to the right if you don't understand what I just said.
- Now you can't simply right click and "Save link as". You actually can't right click at all. So how do you get the MP3 file?
- Method 1 - no tweaking involved:
- Open a new tab in Firefox (control + t).
- Click + hold the Artist - Song Name and drag this onto the new tab you just created.
- That's it! The song should not start to download, but you'll need to rename it because it'll save as "fetch.mp3".
- Method 2 - tweaking the Firefox settings:
- In Firefox goes to Tools --> Options
- Go to the "Content" tab
- Find "Enable Javascript". To the right of this you will see "Advanced" click on this.
- Find "Disable or replace context menus". Uncheck this box.
- Click "OK" and then "OK" again.
- Now you can right click on the Artist - Song Name and select "Save link as".
- That's it! You can now just save the MP3 file we saw in the status bar earlier.
- Important Note: You may want to re-enable the "Disable or replace context menus" option because many web applications use this functionality.
Review: The Road
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
ISBN: 0307387895
The book is available on Amazon
I was hoping for a very dark post apocalyptic novel when I purchased The Road, but instead I found what felt like a half-hearted attempt at the genre. To be honest the entire story didn't feel all that dark, hopeless, or even post apocalyptic. McCarthy repeatedly mentions the ever present ash, the ash snowfall, the ash dyed rain, etc etc ...but this gets old after the first 100 pages. The dialogue is interesting if only because it's short, choppy, and very much to the point. It may be important just to note that Cormac McCarthy is the writer of the now famous "No Country for Old Men" novel turned Hollywood blockbuster.
Rating: 
Review: The Virgin Suicides
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
ISBN: 0446670251
The book is available on Amazon
After recently reading Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides I was anxious to read another book he had written.The Virgin Suicides continues in much the same style of sarcasm and biting social commentary, while remaining very approachable to the casual reader. The point of these reviews aren't to give away the plot because that wouldn't do anyone any good. So I will simply say that this was an interesting, relatively quick, and enjoyable read. The ending left a bit to be desired, but I'm beginning to realize that I happen to be extremely picky about what constitutes a good ending to a novel.
Rating:
Barack Obama Clinches the Demoncratic Nomination
CNN projects Obama clinches nomination
Sen. Barack Obama has clinched the Democratic nomination for president, according to CNN estimates, making him the first African-American in U.S. history to lead a major-party ticket.
Sen. Barack Obama on Tuesday will tell supporters he is the Democratic nominee, according to his campaign. “Tonight, I can stand before you and say that I will be the Democratic nominee for president of the United States.”
Obama picked up a slew of superdelegate endorsements on Tuesday. Those endorsements, combined with the delegates he's projected to receive from South Dakota's primary, will put him past the 2,118 threshold, according to CNN estimates.
By doing so, he shattered a barrier more than two centuries old to become the first black candidate ever nominated by a major political party for the nation’s highest office.