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nationals
Originally uploaded by -djb-

Done with nationals...
Much work along with summer
For me await


[Kanye West - Homecoming]
[pensive]

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i wish i could tell you...

... that I've fought the good fight and fended off temptation.
I wish I could tell you that.

But life's no fairy tale and I signed into facebook. I didn't realize how difficult this would be.

[Someone's playing the "Concierto de Aranjuez" outside ]
[sleepy]

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celos

The quality in that video isn't great, but I like seeing them live - I love the white suits. Here's a vid with much better audio quality, and a neat site with (roughly) translated lyrics.

The song is so hauntingly beautiful... Speaking with Leandro about poetry and such he brought up an interesting point: The most beautiful poetry is poetry about loss and heartbreak.

Maybe when we are at our lowest, most vulnerable point we let down our defenses and let out our true feelings. Maybe when reading someone else's work, we find beauty in feeling or knowing that someone else is feeling like we did or do, or solace in knowing we're not all alone.

Still, I like to think that there's plenty of beautiful poetry about love, and other emotions, that isn't sad. Maybe we don't notice its beauty so much when we're already happy about something - or someone.

Just a thought.

[Gotan - Celos ]
[thoughtful]

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status

David should remember to make his sangria less strong.

Or remember to drink it slower when he hasn't had anything to eat in the previous 6 hours.

I don't usually post, speak, or think in the 3rd person, but I've become used to it because of facebook's status messages... I have to do something about these withdrawal symptoms.

[the hum of a generator outside]
[awake-ish]

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already?

Vatican Mosaic
Originally uploaded by -djb-

I didn't realize it was lent!
Found out by looking at some stuff on a posterboard on campus... guess I'll be getting my ash on later today

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Lump...

neck lump
Originally uploaded by -djb-

Things have been kinda rough the last week or so. Today a friend of mine noticed I have a lump on my neck... BLARGGGG!!

... glad to be going home this week, though :)

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Like you'll never see me again

Crucifix @ Notre Dame
Originally uploaded by -djb-

It may be cliché, but it usually takes something drastic for us to change.

Today, one of my friends died. Just like that.

He was running a half marathon and sometime near the end, his heart gave out.

It's also cliché to say (or pretend) that you're living life to the fullest or like it's the last day of your life when you actually expect to have another day to continue. Another day to finish what you started. Another day to tell someone you love them for the first time, or remind someone that you do. We need to do it at least every now and then.

[Alicia Keys - Like you'll never see me again.]

If I had no more time
No more time left to be here
Would you cherish what we had?
Was it everything that you were looking for?
If I couldn't feel your touch
And no longer were you with me
I'd be wishing you were here
To be everything that I'd be looking for
I don't wanna forget the present is a gift
And I don't wanna take for granted the time you may have here with me
'Cause Lord only knows another day is not really guaranteed

So every time you hold me
Hold me like this is the last time
Every time you kiss me
Kiss me like you'll never see me again
Every time you touch me
Touch me like this is the last time
Promise that you'll love me
Love me like you'll never see me again

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"there is only one thing you can do
when women get hysterical.
run.
as hard as you can."
~Leandro

I had only just realized that I haven't updated the blog with anything of substance - or anything for that matter. Time seems to fly by... And now I have less than a month in Europe and still feel like I have so much more to do. Fortunately, I'll be leaving on my "big" trip this weekend - Paris, Amsterdam, Brussels, and Rome. Should be fun, hehe.

This will also be the first trip I make on my own - up until now I've always been with friends from school (which has been awesome), but we've all gotta travel our own paths and I suppose it's time for me to go my own way - though fortunately I'll be staying with a friend in Paris and in Amsterdam I'll be staying with a cousin I haven't seen in over 9 years!

One of the best things I've found through travelling is the amazing array of people and stories. I've been in a writing mood and written a bit about it, but I need to polish it, it's not ready for prime time yet. I need to get ready for prime time, particularly since in the last phase of my internship I'll be writing a research paper that my boss wants to get published... It's a daunting task - I've never written anything as long or complex (unless you count my personal writing, but that's different...)

Anyhow, I've taken a long enough break already. Time to get more San Sebastian sand out of my computer and get back to writing. Then again, I'm not sure I'll be getting back to writing... a wise man once said, "I'm not a writer, I'm a re-writer". I can identify with that.

[Gym Class Heroes - 7th Period: 7 Weeks]

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just a thought (David McCullough)

I can fairly be called an amateur because I do what I do, in the original sense of the word--for love, because I love it. On the other hand, I think that those of us who make our living writing history can also be called true professionals.

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I wish you music to help with the burdens of life, and to help you release your happiness to others.

It's nice to take a step back, remember the little things, get out of a constraining mind set and look at the big picture. Right now I'm not so sure I can really do that, around this time of year everything seems so important and there are so many things going on that it can be overwhelming.

I had an interview for a job in Spain on Friday and I'm excited about possibly spending the summer there. I'd be working 6 hours days instead of the standard 8 hr days so that's a plus, hehe. The work's also interesting and will be a nice change of pace from school. But I have to get through finals, essays and the rest of this week... here's to finishing the term on a high note.

[Title borrowed from the big bee - Beethoven, video: Daft Punk - Digital Love]

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cleaning up (quotes)

Addendum:
Originally, this entry was about "cleaning up" my profile and putting up random quotes here. It seems that Google thought these were quotes about actually cleaning up, though. So I've added a few quotes about cleaning up :)

"My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance."
~ Author Unknown

"Please don't feed the dust bunnies."
~ Author Unknown

"A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It's just music.
It's trying to play clean
and looking for the pretty notes."
~ Charlie Parker

"Housework is something you do that nobody notices until you don't do it."
~ Author Unknown

"One only needs two tools in life: WD-40 to make things go, and duct tape to make them stop."
~ G.M. Weilacher

"Our house is clean enough to be healthy, and dirty enough to be happy."
~ Author Unknown

“Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the sidewalk before it stops snowing”
~ Phyllis Diller

"Black is practical. It always looks clean and fairly neat.
It's certainly simple.
It's cool.
It also makes you look thinner."
~ Christopher Walken

“He who wants to change the world should already begin by cleaning the dishes.”
~ Paul Carvel

“The gift of the... novelist is to turn the cleaning of a closet into an inventory of love and loss.”
~ Marilyn Gardner

"I always clean before the cleaning lady comes. If not, when I come home, I can't find anything. Cleaning ladies are always hiding things you leave out."
~ Celia Cruz

"If you want to have clean ideas, change them as often as your shirt."
Francis Picabia

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Original post:


My (facebook) profile's getting cluttered, so while I narrow down my "favorite" quotes, here's what I have now (for posterity's sake):

There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.

You just gotta make sure, whatever you do, that you're using the money to chase the art, not the art to chase the money.

Today is tomorrow's yesterday, so if you’re putting it off till tomorrow, then why not do it today? For then you will have done your deed yesterday and you will have today free.
-- Edward Coley, Photographer 1980

Q. I tried spraying my pants with Febreze... but the smell always comes back. What should I do?
A. ... I read that Febreze is rumored to be harmful to pets. The rumor may be unfounded, but if your pants are toxic to your pet, what are they doing to your ass?

Los Goles se hacen, no se merecen.
(Goals are made, they are not deserved.)
-- Football Axiom

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather, the judgment that something else is more important than fear.

"Cuando deseas algo con todo el corazón, todo el Universo conspira para que realices tu deseo."
-- Paulo Coelho

"With Great Power comes Great Responsibility"
-- Spiderman's Uncle (Uncle Ben)

"To play [music] without passion is inexcusable!"
-- Beethoven

Kyle: Aren't weekends just the best?
Kenny: When you're unemployed, weekends are meaningless.
Kyle: Right, right...

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

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