tricksy

it's starting already. after medical school's initial inundating wave, the Waters of time are starting to draw back into the deep eternity. it's time to repair my sand castle.

everytime the keep is overwhelmed, i get a good chance to step back and see what all those spires and battlements were trying to protect. i don't open the treasury every day. it's surprising the stuff you find in there. preferences (untoasted raisin bagels, KJV, and analog watches), habits (well, i've gotten over the nailbiting, but i still practice scale and chromatic fingerings when i'm bored), old poems (The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep), plans for sky castles (the Surprise, or Kourageous Kid's Krossing. yes, it was KKK, but we didn't know about the Ku, or if we did, we didn't care. well, i still don't.), or any sorts of bits of randomness (never put bananas in the refrigerator, lightsabers add one to force drains, 40 and 40M are the cheapest buses back to U Hall and 37A also ends up at Chi Fu Landmark so I can go to Park 'n Shop and get groceries, and when it's time to play Risk, you open a sleeve of newtons—it's just what you do)

the tides erase many memories. names of places, facts about various friends, any number of experiences, book plots, general history, and the entirety of organic chemistry. they're replaced. i think i'm supposed to be sad. it's like one era has ended and a new power has ascended the throne. well, maybe the change isn't that dramatic. perhaps all we have is a new king. a successor. the boy prince is finally figuring out how to rule his kingdom.

isn't he supposed to start by restoring the temple and finding some lost scroll? or was it that he let the baobab trees take over his asteriod? or did he drive the Telmarines from his land? or maybe he just stands there as part of the chorus and says "For never was there such a tale of woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo." (yes, i did my research and it is Escalus who has these lines)

but today is not a time to survey my dominion. instead, i lace up my soccer boots. i'm trying something new today. not that i've ever dominion-surveyed before. sounds kinda fun. especially if you have Mufasa around.

Oh Peter, I love this show. Here's a gem:
Upon hearing that Kiefer Sutherland played Jack Bauer on the TV show "24," Jack Bauer killed Sutherland. Jack Bauer gets played by no man.