I feel that this is another time to make touch with my long-term self and tell the world what's going on in my life in a larger scale. Since I last wrote like this, a lot has changed. I steadily have added good music to my life, with one recent acquisition from Bad Religion being something I'm listening to now, and another from the Plaid Tongued Devils due to arrive soon. Academically, I'm a bit disappointed in myself -- the professors here are really great, and the classes are well taught, I just seem not to be absorbing the material as well as I want. I might not be studying effectively, or perhaps it really is just hard to balance work, school, and sanity, or maybe I'm still not putting enough effort in. I'm going to keep working on this -- I'm serious about wanting to build a new career out of this, and I really want to do interesting research... perhaps on Acalculia and its neurological foundations. I just hope I haven't shot myself in the foot by not putting enough effort in this semester. In other ways, these times are the best I've felt -- I think I'm having a lot of interesting philosophical ideas (sorry for not sharing -- I will, sometime soon), and for some reason I feel deeply excited about Wikis. In a lot of other ways in life, particularly personality, I think I'm maturing, understanding better why I have problems dealing with most people, and learning to be more assertive to correct situations that suck. Politically, I'm becoming more comfortable with being a nontraditional liberal, with my libertarian baggage being mostly ditched now. Healthwise, well, I just don't know how I'm doing. I'll wait until my next checkup with my doctor to find out. Rock climbing has done a lot of good for me though, I think, but, on the other hand, Debb thinks I'm getting a bit of a belly. I can't really tell the difference, but I don't want that to happen, so I'm trying, in my own way, to improve my diet -- for the first time I'm going to actually start eating diet foods when I think the taste of the diet stuff isn't very different from the nondiet stuff. Moneywise.. well, I'm not doing great. I still don't have nearly as much money saved as I wish I did, but my car continues to be a financial disaster. I still want to find a way to get back into making music in some way, even if it's just singing more often to myself. It's also nice that summer is back in a big way now -- I'm going to start taking evening walks again, I think (hopefully with company, at least some of the time).

"And everything is barely missed, but relations and predicts my expression, my confession, add it up, extract a lesson" -- Bad Religion, "All there Is"

Yes, that's my life, in sum (well, mostly). There are things I really like about it, there are some things that are good that could/should get better, there are some things I'm not sure about, and there are some things that arn't very good.

Oh, some time back, I mentioned a movie that's good for demonstrating attentional blindness. I finally found it on the web.