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Moving
So, This journal has served its purpose... but I feel compelled to move to another format. Come find entries about my 101 in 1001, project 365, and general life at my new blog, Never Blank Space. -
One More and I'll Average One Every Two Days...
Vaccations should be relaxing, and lying by the beach and the pool certainly is. But there is a level on this vaccation that I hadn't anticipated, or told myself wouldn't be a factor. Namely: my life feels like it's starting over the day I get home, but I'm constantly waiting without being able to do a single thing to prepare or put anything into ( Read more... ) -
Dreaming in a New Place
You know how different beds always bring out the weirdest dreams? Well, the last few nights have had dreams that at least somewhat make sense. They've all been about tangible stresses in my life: mostly boys but a few that left a lingering sense of major disaster on the first day of work ( Read more... ) -
Running into the Wind
After six hours of flight time, a lay-over to add another state (Nashville, TN) to the long list of places I’ve passed through without actually going to, and a midnight check-in to a beachside resort, and my family and I are safely on Amelia Island in the north of Florida. The place we’re staying is really nice. The beach is right outside our ( Read more... ) -
Now with a gooey chocolate center!
So, regardless of whether the illness was really self-inflicted or not, I was actually ill last week. I went running on Friday and could hardly complete the 2 miles I normally run. I made it about a mile and a half when suddenly I was almost unable to walk from nausea and pain. Clearly something was really wrong with me. Although it was nothing ( Read more... ) -
Knowing What's "Best"
I want to do my best in everything I attempt, but I have less emotional strength than is required for most situations. If you were to wake up completely nautious, would you go to work? What if you knew it was caused by your own mind ( Read more... ) -
Resisting Accolades
So my boss is extremely giving for a scientist. She has allowed me, an undergraduate, to work on my own project and to present my own work at various points (ASCB confrence in San Francisco, Current Works talk for our lab, etc.). She lets me take more than enough credit for what I've done since I got there, and tries to reassure me that my work ( Read more... ) -
Construction paper is a window to the soul
Once apon a time, long long ago, I had a problem with having my photo taken. For every relatively cheery photo of me, there was another of me scowling into the camera or otherwise trying to ruin the photo. I was a sour, angry child in those days... far different from the bright ray of sunshine I've become. :D ( Read more... ) -
Words from the Abyss
Since my life suddenly seems worth reporting on again, I shall grace all of your eager eyes with choice tidbits about my exciting life. Not that I will keep this up, but it seems a waste to have this journal and never use it ( Read more... ) -
accelerating into the turn
I've been wary making a decree of this nature, simply because going so far inevitably endangers collapse. Some days I wake up afraid to breathe, for fear that the subtlest breeze will bring the darkness back crashing down. Other days I wake up to my alarm and the faint glow of a greying dawn, creeping it's way back in time towards the days of ( Read more... )