drunk on candlelight and your heady scent ( Read more... )

Life has a way of sneaking up on you. Whenever I stop thinking and start living for even a moment, things tend to happen that immeadiately cause me to start overthinking everything again. I feel so trapped by the cycle of it all- action- reaction- over and over again. Why can't I just live moment to moment, day to day? I try so hard to stay in the ( Read more... )

your ghost in the seat beside me ( Read more... )

"It has been proved that with each year of graduate study your IQ will go up, and that people with high IQs have more sex than people with lower IQs... So if you are going to have more satification, more money, and more sex, why wouldn't you go to grad school?"
- My fairly terrifying book on graduate admissions essays

I felt like writing something but now that I am sitting here in front of the keyboard I have nothing to say- or maybe too much too say. I realized today that it has been only 10 days since I graduated. It seems as though it was much longer ago. I feel like I am adrift in life now in a way that I wasn't anticipating. Before, no matter how chaotic ( Read more... )

"my overeagerness for the deep and serious and intense will only lead to disappointment and if i could only learn to enjoy the frivolous and fleating pleasures of life a bit more i would be considerably more happy." - My LJ in February.
Ha! February Jen! I win. I feel quite acomplished. I think if all this thesising taught me nothing else, it taught ( Read more... )

i seem to have graduated... how odd

Question for the universe at large:
Does one have to be inspired to be inspiring?

more fun with the classicists in my life! *tossles their hair* awwww, no I do not have a collective crush on them both! how dare you ( Read more... )

"on a standardized scale where 100 equaled the amount of stress experienced by someone whose spouse had just died, doctoral students in their first year scored an average of 313 points. Only 6% of the students were considered to be 'below crisis level,' and the other 94% were all described as experiencing 'crisis' levels of stress ( Read more... )