sun shines and the wind blows

ah, the 18th. today is my 2-month anniversary with irene. well, not really anniversary since that would be for annual events, but i can't really find the right word. maybe i've been up for too long?

decided not to sleep until tonight. that way i can fix my nocturnal sleeping pattern.

finally finished those stupid essays. i now proudly declare that i am free. yeah baby. free as a raccoon. i mean bird.

speaking of raccoons, i've always wondered what would happen if a man actually have to fight a raccoon physically. i mean those raccoons at ucsd. they're huge, probably bigger than a golden retriever. i think i'll be rooting for the raccoons.

so i signed up for juno's speedband. this is the same as netzero's speedband, if you're wondering. conclusion: faster, true, but at the cost of lowering image quality. basically what it does is that it caches the sites and depends on your setting, the lower the quality of the images you'd prefer, the faster the page loads. it works fine for me, since it's just lowering the jpegs from quality 5 to 1, which makes quite some differences, but not much to me. i read news, not look for pictures anyway. so i guess the $5 extra is worth it. it feels like half a broadband ---well, maybe a little less--- when loading pages. but it still does not solve the problem of internet on this computer disconnecting every 27 minutes. stupid modem.

my philosophy teacher seems to be a really huge fan of nietzche so she makes us read all this stupid crap about him for the midterm. well, while i DO find him to be an intelligent man, after finished reading all his works i looked up to the heavens and uttered "oh you poor bastard," but then i realized that he can't be up there so i repeated the same line looking down.

that poor bastard.

and look at this: the cover art for one piece volume 33.



how can one not fall in love with luffy all over again after that afro hairdo? the spirit of the brotherhood will never die. haha.