Every night and every morn
Some to misery are born.
Every morn and every night
Some are born to sweet delight.
Some are born to sweet delight,
Some are born to endless night.
William Blake - Auguries of Innocence
This poem is a new favorite of mine. I remember reading it ages ago, but only went through it thoroughly after watching Jim […]

Only in Europe would you find boxers (and other underwear) in the accessories section.

* The sacred number (along with 5) of Eris, goddess of discord
* the number of the Illuminati.
* sometimes considered lucky or otherwise significant (as in the occult writings of Aleister Crowley and William S. Burroughs)
* a cosmic number with strong connections to arcane magic and synchronicity.
* Numerous people have claimed to see 23’s everywhere (the […]

A friend just came back from a vacation in Spain, a few months earlier, he was in Krakow… I met up with him, and a friend of his, she had recently returned from Edinburgh where she worked for a couple of months. She’s going to university till June, then working in Dublin for 2-3 months… […]

Women… pffft. Speaking of which… Debo mejorar mi español

Things are working out very well for me these days… I’m on a lucky streak. Academically, work is progressing slowly, but surely, and the authorities are satisfied with my thesis so far, personally, I’ve settled down into a very cool, very enjoyable pace… setbacks are a thing of the (near) past… I was in H. […]

I grew up on the fringe of the Lebanese ‘civil’ war. I didn’t live in a high-risk area, and I missed the bulk of the war. I do have some memories of those days, though, most of the stories here, are from my own memory, the first, I don’t remember.
The early years of my life […]

I’m not retiring.
It was considered for a while. It had been a possibility for a while longer. I don’t want to be judged by my blog (or at least by one or two posts in it). I took myself offline (actually, I just changed the address…) and mulled over it for almost two days… I’m […]