"I make the same mistakes, again and again, but still, I want to keep on living..."

( They say you learn by teaching. )

「思い」が全てを変えてゆくよ

So, meme from xcerebraledemax who got it (the exact wording, I think) from mefiant.

Something about commenting to get a letter and then picking five songs beginning with that letter YES I am too lazy to go back and find the exact wording why do you ask?

I was given the letter 'P'.

"Platinum" -- Sakamoto Maaya (from Cardcaptor Sakura)
"Perfect Drug" -- Nine Inch Nails
"Programme de Radiodiffusion" -- from Shoujo Kakumei Utena (excellent jazzy BGM)
"Personal Jesus" -- Depeche Mode
"Poison" -- from GTO live-action

Comment to get your own letter.

The router is acting up again, all of a sudden. I wish I had applied myself to studying networking more intensely back in the day. I'll lose internet again when I hook back up through it.

Watched Ever After today, for what is probably the five-billionth time. It's one of those quintessential mother-daughter movies in our house. To this day, when anybody mentions Thomas More or Utopia, I think of that movie. I absolutely adore Danielle. The older I get, the more I appreciate her unparalleled strength and individuality. Prince Henry is insane for considering anybody over her for one second. If Da Vinci were a handful of decades younger, I'd say she'd be a good match for him. That would be intense. And seeing the French countryside left me with an intense desire to return to Europe again. Lovely as the desert is after a rain (as it has been lately), there is no parallel to (real, old) castles in the green countryside.

It's amazing what a good, hard workout can do for one's mental state. I mean a real one where you end up sweating and weak in the legs, not a leisurely weight-lift. I feel so much better. I've been really bad about that lately.