Things on my mind

Summer is nearly over now, and with its end comes new hopes and trepidations.

  • Looks like my desktop’s power supply finally completely died on me. It started having issues over a year ago, but now I think it’s gone for good. I guess about 4 years isn’t such a bad run. I’m not really lamenting its loss, though, because…
  • I splurged and bought the new Core i5, along with a motherboard and RAM. Now I can finally fill up this P182 case I’ve had sitting empty for over a year. I’m pretty excited, and look forward to the week of cursing when nothing works properly.
  • Vegas trip in under a month for fantasy basketball draft. I really need to get the model running, but the demise of my desktop might put a damper on things.
  • Updated resume is coming together now. Still need to tweak a bunch of things. I hope the job market isn’t horrendous.
  • G.G. missing the last few days. I really need to work on pique and chaine turns at some point, but I get too dizzy.

Modern Love, 30

What are we first? First, animals; and next
Intelligences at a leap; on whom
Pale lies the distant shadow of the tomb,
And all that draweth on the tomb for text.
Into which state comes Love, the crowning sun:
Beneath whose light the shadow loses form.
We are the lords of life, and life is warm.
Intelligence and instinct now are one.
But nature says: “My children most they seem
When they least know me: therefore I decree
That they shall suffer.” Swift doth young Love flee,
And we stand wakened, shivering from our dream.
Then if we study Nature we are wise.
Thus do the few who live but with the day:
The scientific animals are they —
Lady, this is my sonnet to your eyes.

— George Meredith