Come disconnect the dots with me poppet. It's so beautiful.

my ears. my ears. i have been sick since two wednesdays ago, which (if you count today) is 12 days long. i was bedridden for five days which, whenever i felt well enough, i would play the world ends with you. now it feels like i'm at the top of the hill you need to pass on your way from santa cruz to san jose. whenever i step on the ground, especially when my heels hit first, my ears pound (try and notice that the next time you step, cause maybe i never noticed before) and i can't hear the television unless the tv is way up, my ipod runs out of battery faster, and i can't hear my family talk when i chew my food. and it's been like this for twelve days straight. fluid is leaking out of my left ear, which i'm happy about, but it's annoying when it acts up during class. very annoying.
i made a mug for everyone in my family, and i just got them all back from the glaze kiln today. i'm so excited to give them to everyone, i hope they love them and use them everyday. all the handles of the cups were made with the same tool, so all the handle strips look the same, but each handle is different, as are the color of each cup. i hope rachel doesn't read this before i send hers in the mail for her birthday, because that would ruin the surprise. of course, if i really wanted to keep it secret then i wouldn't have written what i just did. oh well. agh, i've made so much art this year. photo and ceramics all year, and woodshop plus video production a semester each. i want to put it all in one big heap at the end of the school year and take a picture of it. i'm proud of a lot of it actually, and i realized i'm much more artistic than i believed. i'm not boasting cause i didn't think i had any talent at all. i want to be a potter now. i love it so much. whoever says it's relaxing obviously has never worked with clay before, so you shouldn't listen to them ever, cause it's a very tense art. you're whole body has to be stressed and still while making the pot. now, it's very relaxing and amazing once you're finished, or once you have left the studio, and you feel great about it, which is why i love it so much, but it's not relaxing while you're doing it. like a massage. kinda.
my brother found a three month xbox live subscription that was unused at the dump and it totally worked. i'm stoked. now i don't have to spend twenty bucks on something i wasn't sure i wanted to spend twenty bucks on to begin with.
our water boiler/tea maker thing doesn't automatically stop heating the water once it gets to a certain temperature anymore. it sucks. i was thinking though, and i guess it isn't a big deal, but i'm not sure. it originally heated our water to right when it boiled, but it keeps going right, but can't water only get to the heat of boiling? it if could get any hotter than boiling, that would mean that some water vapor is colder than water liquid, which is impossible, because if water only turns to vapor when it's molecular bonds can't hold themselves together because the atoms are moving so fast from the heat, and once they do that you can't heat it up anymore, because it has already turned into a vapor. i probably just confused you, but hopefully not. but then why does the water get hotter? is it because only the top portion of the water was boiling when it stopped originally, but now all of the water is getting boiling hot? or could it be the build up of hot water vapor that's released into the room when i open the water boiler when i'm making tea that makes the room only seem hotter? i guess it would have to be the first one, cause that makes sense. when you boil water for pasta or whatever, the water can't all get that hot at the same time, cause it takes a while for heat transfer to happen. and if it did all get boiling hot then the whole pot would be full of water one second, and then empty the next, which next happens. either way, we need a new one.
i learned yesterday that i made a mixed cd for someone a while ago, and they were listening to it with another person, and that other person asked my friend to make a copy of my mix because he liked it so much. for some reason that made me feel very good about myself. i love it when anyone listens to something you make them, or appreciate a good book that you recommend to them, or agree with you on a political outlook because you both came to the same logical conclusions the same way, or your friend likes the art you made them. it just feels good to be accepted sometimes, even if you know it's not that important.
i got a fortune cookie that said i would have ten million wives one day. today is not one day.