Finding a Girlfriend, Drake Equation Style

So let’s say that I was in the market for finding a significant other. The total candidate pool (C) would then be:
C = Pdc * F * G * A10 * S * Dn * Ra * A
Where:
C = total number of candidates
Pdc = total population of DC metro area
F = ratio of females
G = [...]

My Morning Ritual

4:45 AM
The alarm goes off.
4:54 AM
The alarm goes off again.
5:00 AM
My alarm goes off — it is distinctively less pleasant than the one Rosina uses.
5:03 AM
Rosina’s alarm goes off yet again.
…
Skip forward more than a half-hour of repeated alarms going off.
5:33 AM
Absently, I hug Rosina gently as I attempt to wake thoroughly enough for morning [...]

Sans Sanguine Sanity

From my bound journal, dated Dec 31, 2004. 
Often, the heart of compassion reels at new knowledge not because it is unused to learning, but because the realities of life are so distraught with misfortune.
Only just previously, I was able to take my sister on an outing, eating at a vegetarian restaurant, touring a strip mall [...]

The Exam-a-Gram

I received an e-mail last night informing me that I had an ‘Exam-a-Gram’ waiting for me in the campus ministry department.
At Spring Hill College, an ‘Exam-a-Gram’ is a small bag full of treats of various kinds: chips, candies, bars, etc. The idea is that a loved one or family member will buy you an ‘Exam-a-Gram’ [...]

Concern for the Caring of Others

It is rather hard for me to express how I feel right now.
Today, at lunch, Russ made the rather innocuous comment that my family apparently did not care for me very much. His sentiment was immediately rebuked by Mary, who said: “Even if that’s true, it is horribly rude to say so aloud.” Then David [...]

A Wonderful Place To Be

Originally posted in my RAE journal.
It has started.
Today, on Wednesday, July 9, 2003, Robin told me that she trusts me. I am, to be quite honest, ecstatic.

The Virtueless Girl

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” -Socrates 
A tear rolls down my cheek as I look at her. She, like so many others, is ignorant of the fact that I am watching her. But her ignorance does not stop there. She lacks so many qualities: intelligence, beauty, persistence… And yet she strikes [...]

The Concept Of True Love

Laguna y Julia… Rinoa y Seifer… 
I find myself questioning love itself.
Rinoa found out Seifer was alive, and when Squall said he might have to kill him, what was her response?
Julia loved Laguna, yet fell for Caraway at the drop of a hat. 
::sigh:: 
I miss Trent. Not the Trent I knew… The Trent of legend. The Trent [...]

Space

The names have all changed, but the meaning is yet the same. 
I am amazed at the sheer size of Jupiter, aren’t you? ‘Tis such an ugly planet, yet so easy to hit as a target, even with an unsteady hand. But what’s most strange are those moons circling the planet. I’d never noticed them before. [...]

True Meaning

Him: “I showed it to you because I thought you might like it. I like it. I … I watch it at least once each day.”
Me: “Yes, … yes, I can definitely see why, my friend. That… that was beautiful.”
Him: “Yes. Now you know how I felt when I first saw it.”
Me: “Yes. Yes, I [...]