Below are the 14 most recent journal entries recorded in Ryan's LiveJournal:

Wednesday, May 7th, 2003
8:01 pm	( blathering away.. ) Current Mood: silly Current Music: Kamera-Wilco (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, May 6th, 2003
12:00 am	oh yeah, livejournal. ( a long update. ) Current Mood: accomplished Current Music: "The Shining" - Badly Drawn Boy (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, July 9th, 2002
10:04 pm	what the hell.. ( femi's song questionnaire ) Current Mood: silly (Comment on this)
Saturday, June 15th, 2002
12:44 am	so it's been awhile since I lj'd. my last post was a little too.. depressing. but let's see -- alot's happened since then. in no particular chronological order : After a 14 year hiatus, I've finally gotten back to playing Mozart on the piano. (yea!) I work for a fucking calculator company again. (bah!) I have a girlfriend again. (yea!) My mother went to hospital with heart trouble on valentine's day. (bah!) I went back to NYC and finally made it to the Whitney. (yea!) I've gone into semi-retirement from teaching. (sort of both yea! and bah!) I can play 10 chords on the guitar. (yea!) I found my missing Liz Phair CD. (yea!) It looks like I'm finally going to make the long considered road trip to South Dakota. (yea!) I discovered Wilco. (yea!) I think that's more yea!s than bah!s -- cool. Current Mood: pleased Current Music: Only You - Portishead (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, January 27th, 2002
1:26 pm	I went to dinner with a friend from Dallas last night, and the ghosts came back. Run to the light Carol Anne... Current Mood: ambivalent Current Music: The tv (Comment on this)
Thursday, January 24th, 2002
11:58 pm	Just got back from the Strokes concert. Much better live than their album suggests. It was at the Aerial Theater, which is fairly lame, but on the bright side, is very well air conditioned. My ears are ringin' like hell, but hey, it cuts the silence in my apartment. Current Mood: bouncy Current Music: "The ring in my ear" (2 Comments |Comment on this)
12:07 am	Between work and school, my brain is now officially mush. *drool* *staring blankly at screen* On the bright side, my students seemed to actually learn tonight... maybe I can actually teach. Current Mood: tired Current Music: "Dry the Rain" -- The Beta Band (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2002
8:05 pm	it's 8pm and where is your engineer? Answer : at work. Since I have no cable, and my PC is dead anyway, my office is probably the safest place for my mind to inhabit. I have the stuffed frog hung in effigy to protect me from the evils that exist outside my office door. OUT OUT damned memories! I need to actually do my review for this year (to hopefully fend off the lay-off genie on the 'HP horizon'), as well as return a call from my parents, but my mind is caught in a halcyonic loop about the "way she brushed her hair from her forehead". (where's my cynical laser when it's needed.. DIE DIE hair brushing!) Anyway, all work and no play makes someone into an engineer. God, I'm grumpy today. And according to the ginky Care Bear link, I'm supposedly 'Cheer Bear'.. what does that mean? My inner 'glow' shining through? I'm a lying bastard on web forms? I'm really more a kind of laundry detergent?.. More at 11 (no, really.) (Comment on this)
Monday, January 21st, 2002
7:17 pm	okay, I should look where I'm typing. That was an incredibly lame post.. As I was saying, I spent the day looking for a guitar. Also, this morning, via plastic, I re-located my favorite curmudgeon -- Polly. tommorrow.. work again. I start a new project, and somehow by starting this project I feel as if I'm committing myself to 9 more months in Houston. But I took it to try and excise psychological demons through hard work -- a strategy that hasn't worked great in the past. I could always go back to drinking and learning to chain smoke. Current Mood: annoyed Current Music: "Doh la la" -- The faces. (Comment on this)
7:10 pm	I spent my day off crusin' Houston lookin' for a guitar. I found one, but I need to re-evaluate my financial situation before I buy it. Current Music: " (5 Comments |Comment on this)
2:47 am	Rock around the Bach! I just now muddled my way through Minuet #2 in G for the first time. Didn't pause at all (for any discernable amount of time, anyway.. ). Finally my teacher will quit rapping my knuckles with a ruler (at least about this piece.. Minuet #3's a fucking bitch.) Current Mood: accomplished Current Music: Minuet #2 in G -- J.S. Bach (2 Comments |Comment on this)
2:25 am	I lost $10 at poker tonight. Apparently a flush doesn't beat a full house, no matter how much Crown and Coke I've had. *yawn* No email from seemingly interested parties all weekend. damn. Current Mood: disappointed Current Music: the strokes (Comment on this)
Sunday, January 20th, 2002
9:23 am	digital numbness.. Hmmm.. what the fuck to do today? More importantly, why am I up so early? In order to further my music education, I attempted to learn guitar on Friday night. Somewhere in the middle of making G chords, I think I seriously screwed up my index finger. It's as if the tip doesn't really exist anymore. Of course, the ulterior motive for learning the guitar is to get laid, but I don't know if losing the tip of index finger is worth it. (what am I thinking? Of course it's worth it!) Current Mood: sleepy Current Music: "nothing in this world can stop me worrin' bout that girl" -- The Kinks (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, January 19th, 2002
11:52 pm	I spent the entire day out of the apartment. Considering my cable's busted, it's probably a good thing I didn't sit here all day. Chafing tends to set in pretty easily. Fixed my mother's computer. Crashed, and then fixed my friend's network and computer. If only I could fix my own computer (the PC, not this Smackintosh) Last night I bought Michael Penn's 'March' CD because I'm fascinated by the song 'No Myth', and buying the CD means I never have to endure the travesty that is the movie 'Loser' (can anyone tell me what the hell Amy Heckerling was *thinking*? -- I still can't believe I paid $7.50 to see it) in order to hear this song. 'Course no cable means I might actually finish a book. But I probably shouldn't count on it. I'm reading a book about Vietnam and I've decided that Donald Rumsdale looks almost exactly like Robert McNamara. Coincidence? I think not.... Current Mood: quixotic Current Music: "Johnny Appleseed" -- Joe Strummer (3 Comments |Comment on this)