How I long for the warm wind of summer to breeze by my legs as they shiver in the salty rolling tide! The second semester is underway and I have made the decision to take my life back to its state as of the beginning of the year: motivated, (relatively) carefree, and optimistic. I've laid low in terms of the party scene recently, and I feel ready to re-emerge a bit socially. For most of last semester I upheld the belief that I will be happy if I choose to be happy-and it worked quite well, yet seemed to fade towards the close of the semester. Now, through some kind of devine musical epiphany brought by a mix of the Decemberists and G. Love, I'm ready to get back in the emotional and social and educational swing of things. So I am here, with a bitchload of Eric Clapton to upload, a glorious new Buddha, an almost finished "Alice in Wonderland", a meditation book waiting, and a weekend soon to arrive...party anyone?