So, I spent a weekend without the internet and while I didn't get as much work done as I wanted to, it did give me a chance to rest some, work some(and a lot of the hard mental planning work), and all kinds of relatively good things happened on the academic front too! (more about that in another post ( Read more... )

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So, I'm kind of at a point in my life where I'm not sure if I can trust anything that I thought I used to know about men. So, when I was reading this article from Cosmo (the online version is linked below) about guys' body language and what it means, I was struggling to try to frame it using examples from the men in my life (the guy I have a crush ( Read more... )

The atmosphere of the day gives you that touch of mystery. How will people be able to resist the broad sweep of your eyelashes, fluttering like a pair of angel's wings? You are magnetic and have the supreme confidence to match, but what you have on offer certainly isn't angelic at all. That special person may find you are more than they can handle ( Read more... )

"The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward."
~Amelia Earhart, 1897-1937

I loved my friend
He went away from me
There's nothing more to say
The poem ends soft as it began -
I loved my friend.

-Langston Hughes

"Did you ever wonder if the person in the puddle is real, and you're just a reflection of him?"

~Quote from Calvin & Hobbes comic strip; Boy do I miss that! Even these days, I can open one of my C&H books and just read and smile and laugh for an hour and it is just like reading them for the first time. :)

When you want to know something...
When you feel like you need to know something...

But

When you're also too affected by it to do anything for fear of just making the whole situation worse.

Yeah, that sucks.
Meaning, in reality, THIS sucks( * )

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"Never let the search for the perfect get in the way of the perfectly good."
-John Elson (longtime writer and editor for TIME magazine)