instructions for life

1. take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.

2.  when you lose, don't lose the lesson.

3.  follow the 3 R's:
respect for self
respect for others, and
responsibility for all your actions

4.  remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a good thing.

5.  learn the rules so you know how to ( Read more... )

i'm spending valentine's day (evening) not skipping my 3 hour lecture because i have to hand in my paper.

which i haven't started on.

whoops.

i have a midterm on monday also.

sigh. i can't wait until school's over... and that won't be for another gazillion years.

HAPPY 2006!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

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i can't believe it snowed last night.

it took me 2+ hours to get home from school because the busses were so over packed and traffic was soooo slow. but since the snow is melting (and i hope we won't get anymore, otherwise it'd just be a thin layer of snow over rock hard ice), i'm hoping going to/from school tmr will go smoothly.

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"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convulsions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops."

Stephan Jay Gould, The Panda's Thumb, 1980

i don't remember where i found this, but i like it.

you have to take the good with the bad and smile with the sad,
love what you've got and remember what you had,
always forgive but never forget,
learn from your mistakes but never regret,
people change and things go wrong, but just remember,
life goes on

i received this fwd in my inbox today and i really hope someone takes the time to read this, especially if you're a girl.

( through a rapist's eyes )

ever see someone on the street- someone random, someone you don't know and have never seen before... and all of a sudden you just know you could spend the rest of your life with them?