Quote of the Day - 11.10.06

There is an old Chinese saying,

"If you aim for the Moon you may just reach the top of a tree, whereas, if you aim for the top of a tree you may never get off the ground."

Death Wish on 95

I drove seven and a half hours in the rain from NY to Boston. I spent nearly and hour on the West Side highway during rush hour, bumper to bumper. Then it was "smooth-sailing" at 40 mph until I hit the 3 accidents along my route. I thought I was gonna collapse during the last stretch. My right foot hurt, my lower back ached, and I was totally dozing off. Add to that the splashes of water onto my windshield from passing trucks and I'm like, I might as well be driving blindfolded! I think this was the longest I've ever driven in my life. Never again!!! I cannot believe I drove back in the rain again. Last time it was with Kelly and at least she drove half way in a blinding storm. I am just glad to be alive right now. For sure, I'm making a pact with myself never to drive long distance in the rain again, it's like a death wish. I was thinking to myself..."hmmm, at least let me listen to my favorite Leehom music in case I die in the next 15 miles."

Borat Compilation

The Best Borat Skits of All-Time

Quote of the Day - 11.6.06

"I feel there are two people inside me - me and my intuition. If I go against her, she'll screw me every time, and if I follow her, we get along quite nicely."

- Kim Basinger

Somewhere Only We Know

I walked across an empty land
I knew the pathway like the back of my hand
I felt the earth beneath my feet
Sat by the river and it made me complete
Oh simple thing where have you gone
I'm getting old and I need something to rely on
So tell me when you're gonna let me in
I'm getting tired and I need somewhere to begin

I came across a fallen tree
I felt the branches of it looking at me
Is this the place we used to love?
Is this the place that I've been dreaming of?

Oh simple thing where have you gone
I'm getting old and I need something to rely on
So tell me when you're gonna let me in
I'm getting tired and I need somewhere to begin

And if you have a minute why don't we go
Talk about it somewhere only we know?
This could be the end of everything
So why don't we go
Somewhere only we know?

Oh simple thing where have you gone
I'm getting old and I need something to rely on
So tell me when you're gonna let me in
I'm getting tired and I need somewhere to begin

And if you have a minute why don't we go
Talk about it somewhere only we know?
This could be the end of everything
So why don't we go
So why don't we go

This could be the end of everything
So why don't we go
Somewhere only we know?

- Keane

Lynn University

This is hilarious. Our goal in life should be to each get a sweatshirt from our respective universities!

Lynn:
"Maybe I should go here for my PhD! I think you should put this on your blog, LOL"

Lynn University

Pepper's Memorial

Nightly Impressions

Ever wake up knowing you just had a significant, involved dream and not be able to remember it only 30 minutes later? Yep, that's me today. I know who and what I dreamt about in one sequence, but the rest is completely gone. They say that dreams lay out all of your subconcious desires. But frankly, mine seem to be pretty straightforward--or at least they have been in the past. I think mine tend to address subconcious fears more than anything else. I remember ones that have been downright scary! There was a time I wanted to keep a dream log but it's so hard to do that. Seriously, because by the time you've gotten up and washed your face...who could remember? All you're ever left with is a haunting impression.

Kid in a Bookstore

I really wanted another book I could sink my teeth into. So after work, I went to the new Border's at Wayside Commons. The bookstore was empty -- it was cold and late in the evening. I felt like I had it all to myself. As I patrolled the aisles, just skimming through everything, I suddenly regained an old feeling I used to have as a kid--excitement! Sheer excitement from being in a bookstore. I used to run into the old Waldenbooks at Kings Plaza when I was young and go straight to the Sweet Valley High section. I would treat myself to the latest addition to the series and go home real happy. I'm not sure where all that excitement for reading went. For a long time, books just didn't hold the same thrill they used to for me. It was nevertheless, a treat to run my hands across the smooth paperbacks and marvel at all the different packaging of various reprints. Perhaps Amazon has taken the thrill out of book-shopping for me. Maybe it's the experience of looking up through all the stacks and stacks of books and then carefully selecting one; taking it home and then cracking open the new volume and flipping to a crisp new page. So what new treasure did I acquire? Well, I got Wally Lamb's This Much I Know Is True. It's a whopper -- 900 pages! I'm looking forward to it though. The saddest part is always when a good book ends and you feel like you're forced to say goodbye to an old friend. A long, involved read holds a lot of promise in this way...like, "stick with me and you won't be sorry, we're in it for the long-haul!" ;)

OMG!

We might get a puppy! It'll be crazy! I feel like I'm 10 again!!! I cannot wait!

My Favorite Passage

Such an immense and beautiful story about love and loss...I devoured this book.

Excerpt from The Lovely Bones, p. 280:


"You look so different," he said.

"You mean older."

I watched him reach up and take a strand of my mother's hair and loop it around her ear. "I fell in love with you again while you were away," he said.

I realized how much I wished I could be where my mother was. His love for my mother wasn't about looking back and loving something that would never change. It was about loving my mother for everything--for her brokenness and her fleeing, for her being there right then in that moment before the sun rose and the hospital staff came in. It was about touching that hair with the side of his fingertip, and knowing yet plumbing fearlessly the depths of her ocean eyes.

Quote of the Day - 11.1.06

"In order to discover new lands, you have to be prepared to lose sight of the shore."

- André Gide