Rebirth!

Bongiorno principessa! i've deleted and reawakened. mostly for archival purposes. in fact, for the simple purpose that there's poetry here i would regret eliminating from the world, even if it is for a love that has evaporated into the cosmos.

cool! blogging! i'm not going to blog here. if you actually want to know what the fuck i do, and you don't already know about my tumblr then it means you aren't a good friend (fact). but i suppose i can cut you some slack. okay... www.dawndragon.tumblr.com

prob see you once a year.

ciao!

The West Beckons

I will heed its call in due time. For now I shall plot, scheme, ponder and plan the future paths that unfold before me.

food frustrated

i've been a vegetarian for a little more than a year, with barely a sprinkling of meat-lapses. my most recent was an accidental ingestion of buffalo meat. in my defense it looked like oatmeal because it was all ground up and dried.

here at school it is increasingly difficult to find delicious vegetarian foods. those items offered by the school cafeteria usually miss the mark by a wide margin. even more, the non-veggie options are often poorly cooked, sparingly seasoned, and apparently hastily compiled and displayed as a "meal". how hard is it really to cook pasta? is it more difficult to cook it for large amounts of people? my personal experience tells me that it is not. i worked as a chef for four months, and the meals we made were delicious and nutritious. we even had less space than the kitchen staff on campus and still we managed to bang out kick ass meals everyday. my school is relatively small, and allegedly has the resources of a massive institution, yet how with all that do they manage to consistently produce food that neither satisfies nor strengthens? it goes even further...there is only one meal plan option for students who live on campus. this limitation seems unnecessary to me. does it cost a significant amount to offer options? i rarely eat breakfast at the dining hall and on some days, today being one of them, i will only eat one meal on campus. i understand that schools need money to survive, but my understanding is that the dining hall is there to serve the students, not the other way around.

thank god i'm moving off campus next semester!

just a few more pics

pictures!!!

remember that day last year when i said that there would be pictures from my californian travels? no? that's ok. nobody reads this. anyway, here are (a few of) those pictures...

a cairn i made on the road to San Simeon.

numerous jellies washed ashore at gray whale cove,

just south of San Francisco

Surprise Me Mr. Davis

the Golden Gate

a beautiful Agapanthus

unintentional inspiration

deleted two posts, and decided to write more. here that is.

chem test t-minus seven hours and counting.

i am inspired when i ought not to be. this evening has certainly been productive. i updated ALL of my album art in my itunes (something i do quite obsessively), i caught up on all those new movie trailers, and i found a few quotes that i like. i even had a minor musical epiphany! (i had a 'top 5' moment of clarity).

why all this misguided energy? i ought to be reviewing gram to mole conversion equations, and nailing down how to balance net ionic equations. i seem to always have my work cut out for me.

despite the evening of procrastination, that i regret to announce will soon be coming to an end, i feel like i'm more excited than i have been in a long time about my future. (maybe it's because i have a girlfriend...) i bought two books on the ocean in the last week, and recently i have been talking a lot with friends about fishing practices, and seemingly enlightening a few of them. it feels really good to educate my close friends with knowledge that has an immediate impact on their lives. it makes me more inspired to continue on this path, and simultaneously creates a feeling of unrest. i feel like i ought to be in monterey bay, diving in the kelp forests, and perhaps monitoring sea otter activity, or sea urchin populations. i want so badly to be in a submarine on the ocean floor.

wow just realized that my life is dramatically beginning to resemble "Octopus's Garden". not such a bad thing. some synchronicity there as well, my friends ordered two heaping plates of calamari this afternoon, which although would've tasted delicious, i did not eat. almost a whole year of being a vegetarian!

that's all for tonight, and besides who reads this anyway???

- paul

lethargy

Got home from a week in Aruba last night.

Great trip, fair amount of diving.  Lots of sea turtles. Caught a cold on the plane home.

Have been sluggish in keeping my promises i.e. new posts with pics.

One day I swear.

Keep your chin up until then,

- paul