I'm a hideous nerd of history with an enigmatic love of english.
My loathings are simple: stupidity, violence, oppression, crime, cruelty, and bugs.
My pleasures are the most intense known to man: film, literature, music, and wine.
Sons of Gondor, of Rohan, my brothers! I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me. A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day. An hour of woes and shattered shields, when the age of men comes crashing down! But it is not this day! This day we fight! By all that you hold dear on this good Earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West!
Obligatory patriotic shot. I am taking EECS 280 so I guess I am partially an engineer… For those of you not from UMich, this is the bell tower at the center of University of Michigan’s North Campus which houses Engineering, Theater, and Art. Taken from the arb.
There’s nothin’ like the feeling of the plane flight homeward; The way my stomach dips when the landing gears lowered….. Every time I witness it I have a damn epiphany. That this is me! This is where I’ve got the richest history. Stacked with six or seven memories on every single street, I never missed a beat. I’m soaked in city pride, and me oh my, this foggy sky got me misty eyed!
"When I was told stories as a kid the pessimism was there even then ’cos I never believed me mam when she finished a story with ‘And they all lived happily ever after’. ‘No, they didn’t. I don’t believe it,’ I’d say. I prefered Humpty Dumpty – nice and short, and a realistic ending. He never hurt anyone, but he had a little accident and died. Shit happens. That’s life, innit. No great life story, or love interest, just a dead egg."
