Strong and resiliant, beautiful and brilliant

I don't really have much to say today. It was a good day. I hung out
with Nic and Julie and Kevin. It was good times. Real good times.
Today was Babbling Day and Count Your Buttons Day. I did neither. By
the time any of you read this it will most likely be National Nut Day.
I think hazel nuts are the coolest. They just look so cool, and for
a long time in my childhood I thought they were acorns. I just now
remembered that.

My arm is twitching madly. It's not even individual tics anymore.
It's just going off. Madly.

A guy I work with has a certain brother, a doctor of anthropology at
ISU. This doctor is considered to be the world's leading expert on
bigfoot/sasquatch/yeti/abonimable snowman/what-have-you. I have heard
some pretty cool stories. It seems a little odd to me, but they are
cool stories nonetheless.

"Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?"
Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)

I kinda like Henry Ward Beecher. Did you guys know that he is Harriet
Beecher Stowe's brother? Well he is. Erm... was. That was pretty
much a long time ago. I bet he's not much more than a few clovers and
some worm food by now.

It's a little sad to hear that Dave Barry is taking an indefinite
leave of absence from his writing career. But it's kinda cool at the
same time. I heard that he might be returning in 2006. That's a long
way off, if you ask me. He's a funny man.

I need to use different headphones. The ones I have now are the kind
that go back behind my head. They're usually really cool, but I like
to listen to music lying down. I don't know why. It's better that
way somehow. But I don't like lying on my headphones when the weight
of my head is right on the thinnest part... But I also don't like
lying on my side, because it makes my ears sore. So I would really
like to use a normal pair of phones that go up and over the crown of
my head so that I can lie on my back. I might look into that. Right
now I am listening to "Daylight" by Brave Saint Saturn. It's a good
song.

And now I must go to bed. I have already stayed up too late. But
this has been fun. My sending this email is kind of like trimming
shrubberies. They look nicer AND they are healthier.

Brian