I have nothing interesting to say today, so that'll do.

It was all, it was nothing, it was chaos, it was perfection.
Well, naturally, if it was chaos, it had to be perfection! How could it be otherwise?
Watashi ni wa doko ka omoshiroi desu ka? Sho-gakko kara, daigaku made, Nihongo o benkyo-shimashita desu yo!
We start as the beggar on the street, end as Siddhartha.
Hopefully.
What did Buddha say to the hot-dog vendor?
"Make me one with everything!"
Back in the '60's, Malvina Reynolds had a song that was something of a hit, called Little Boxes. It was about suburban conformity, just as you've described. Some things haven't changed, apparently.
Little boxes on the hilside, little boxes made of ticky tacky, little boxes, little boxes, little boxes all the same.
There's a green one, and a pink one, and a blue one, and a yellow one, and they're all made out of ticky tacky, and they all look just the same.
[Edited on Apr 15, 2005 8:40PM]
Something interesting about me? I studied Japanese from elementary school through college!
Answer to your current question:
And the competition results:
I took 1st in miscellaneous instruments (hammered dulcimer), 2nd in mandolin. So I'll be going to Ireland again in August for the Irish National's!!!