Serpent of the New Sun

The Definition of Stellar Bodies

2007-04-18T15:09:00.000+03:00

In an inflating Universe
all the things that once were near me
are now somewhere nearer to their end.

Since my creation,
my definition has been debated:
planet or asteroid?
But despite the failure
of my categorization,
I am nonetheless subject
to a gravitational system
greater than myself-
good company in the growing void-
unless we see clearly enough
to change the Universe's definition
by the light of those stars
fueled on the stuff of my dreams,
those that will not leave me to the
endless black.

Dreamseed

2006-12-28T11:11:00.000+02:00

As I navigate the incomplete biways
of the Dreaming,
a curtain of endless night
extends behind me,
its spectral talons reaching across
a vast unknowable expanse.
I have traversed through its ghastly secrets
but thankfully left its horrible wisdom behind.

He who dreams of the Otherworld

2006-11-02T13:08:00.000+02:00

I was the owner of a curious little shop,
and customers were demons.
They came from Hell to buy my wears; Diseases and cancers that they wore as fashions in the Netherrealms. Symbols of prestige for which they paid me handsomely.

In other news, I think I am close to having a job.

Left Hand twitching

2006-10-18T18:50:00.000+03:00

They spread like a fucking plague, a blight, a malignant fucking tumor.
The vector: Young, blonde American men, in their grey dress-pants and short sleeved, well ironed button down shirts, sporting black name tags, and their abhorrent, abominable, nausea-inducing expressions of friendliness.
The pathogen: the memetic cancers of religiosity they are attempting to implant into the populace.

Beyond the Wine Dark Sea

2006-10-04T14:52:00.000+03:00

Its been ages... Hopefully someone remembers this blog exists.
Since the last post, I have been discharged from the military, followed by a process of reacclimation to civilian life which consisted of alot of me waking up in the middle of the night, thinking that it was my shift for sentry duty.
I thought that i was better than everyone else, that my cognitive processes would not be militirized. Its unavoidable. The environment has a way of rubbing off on you no matter how hard you resist.
I am currently in the process of reacquainting myself with square one.

But as difficult as things may be at times, i am never allowed to forget... In dreams of mine...

Nightmare's Milk

2006-05-31T10:45:00.000+03:00

74 days left...
...thats what i have to keep telling myself...

You know the dreams you have where darkness slowly bleeds in, turning them into nightmares before you realize what has happened? This is the army right now... but its all over in a little over 2 months.

Im home now, working on contacts and resumes. Went to my first interview here yesterday. Pharmaceutical research company. Went rather well although i dont expect to hear back from them for a couple of reasons, both which have to do with my availability and their needs.

Saw Nightwatch (Nochnoy Dozor in russian)- a Russian dark fantasy movie, first of a trilogy. Probably one of the best dark fantasy movies ive ever seen. Has a few WoD elements, as well as the occasional Russian Orthodox moralizing, which doesnt stand out when the plot is based upon the struggle between good & evil. Character and story driven, no Hollywood fluff or testosterone. If you can find it, do see it.

Im not sure if any of you read the blog, so im not sure if i should keep posting here. Regardless... Im leaving for the island again on Sunday... back to the heart of darkness for me.

Liquid Snake

2006-03-15T22:15:00.000+02:00

Internet Cafe.
Cappucino.
Mmmmm....

These are my last days in Rethymnon and on Crete. Being shipped off either to Samos or Lesvos, and my specialization is going to be rifleman. Cant do anything more complicated because of the time constraints, and i dont really care to to tell you the truth.
Graveyard shift guard duty, morons, lots of mud, morons, etc.

My shot is up to 78% from 72% and i hope to get even better, thats about as much fun as i get in the base. but i have to get mudded and rained on in ravines to go to target practice.

More later...

Serpent at Play

2006-01-31T10:46:00.000+02:00

I thought i was done with academia. I probably still am, though one can only speculate about what the future holds.
So, yesterday was my first day at the Wiener Laboratory of the American School of Classical Studies (this is their bioarchaeology laboratory- mostly concerned with osteoarchaeology, with a few people doing faunal and botanical analyses, and a geoarchaeologist or two thrown in as well). Its a very unofficial volunteer appointment, but I'm assisting a Post-Doc fellow with a Byzantine population from the Spata area of Attica. Bone washing and glueing this week- identification/diagnosis next week assuming we have time to get to it-- i started a 10 lbs bag of small bone fragments mixed with mud and rocks, so i have to spend most of my time washing dirt off of the specimens to decide whether or not the tiny piece i'm holding is pebble or human. I love it.
I only wish I could have started this earlier in the winter.

2006-01-26T13:13:00.000+02:00

It got a little cold.
It snowed some.
The city shut down. Not because it had to, it just wanted to.

Such is Athens. A casual walk around the Exarcheia district of the city-proper revealed to me the comic-book/ fantasy&scifi shop, a gaming shop, and an occult bookstore all in very close proximity to each other. I did the dance of joy. People looked at me funny.

February 13th is the day I finally join the Army. It still sounds funny when i say it.

Nebulae

2006-01-09T18:35:00.000+02:00

I awake to witness
a strange dawn.
I have come
as light,
as quanta
through the Halls
of Deep time,
carrying data,
the anima
of those left behind,
those lost
or found along the way,
to illuminate
the eternal present.

2005-12-19T09:57:00.000+02:00

I'm a pleasantly exhausted. The last two weekends were spent outside of Athens. Last week we were in Drama, a cozy northern city near the Bulgarian boarder, for the EEF Conference. Last night we got back from the Peloponesse, having set up 2 conferences in two cities in one day. Didnt work out so well, but now the people in charge know better (one may hope). For Christmas we'll be off to Thessaloniki for four days, which I'm really looking forward to.

This week i've learned something useful. I dont like academics, and i like artists even less. They are, as populations, arrogant, pompous, and narcissistic. This is not of course, what ive learned, becaus this has been known to me for quite some time now. What i learned is that i am lucky to know a few people on both sides of the Atlantic who are a glaring exception to this.

Serpent, Rising

2005-12-12T12:46:00.000+02:00

Hello all. I was considering dropping out of the blogging thing for a while, but as you can see, i finally decided that a new page was more appropriate.
For the next couple of months, posting will be relatively frequent, but after February, it willbe sporadic for a few months, as I'll be in the military. I finally found out that I'll be serving in Corinth initially. Subsequent to the initial 40 days of training and swearing in, i'm not quite sure where i'll be. Rhodes more than likely.

More on Athens and my neighborhood later.