First of all, Jerry Goldsmith died last week. Lovers of movie music will remember Goldsmith as the composer behind over three hundred film scores, including all of the Star Trek films, every Star Trek series since the original one, Braveheart, Air Force One, L.A. Confidential, and others.

Second, comment spam is becoming ridiculous around here. Fortunately, Movable Type is set not to display comments until I approve them, and I've been dumping comments left and right. There's no version of MT-Blacklist for Movable Type 3.0 yet, but I'm hoping there will be soon.

Third, even though I've tried to keep this place free of gory personal details (lest it become a LiveJournal), this message is for all of my friends. Michelle and I broke up earlier this week. It's been difficult. I still love her as much as I ever did, but I guess I'll have to just stop somehow (I imagine it in my mind as going into the Task Manager and clicking "End Process," since it won't stop on its own). Nevertheless, she'll always be special to me, and I hope I will always be special to her. People don't date for ten months and then not have some sort of special connection. Part of her has become part of me, and vice-versa. I've always thought that exes (that's ex-lovers, not executable files), if they try, can have the best kind of friendship once the romantic relationship is over. When the sexual or romantic attraction is filtered out, the end product is a pure kind of love, an attachment between two people who have shared wonderful experiences together. That history will never go away, and it becomes a part of both people. I learned a lot from Michelle, and she from me. I wouldn't trade the last ten months for anything. Ever. It was the best time of my life and I'm glad I had the opportunity to share it with such a wonderful, beautiful, intelligent, and caring person. She was my first-ever girlfriend, and a part of me will always love her and remember her fondly.