I am feeling a bit tired from testing so many waters. Honestly I am a bit over it. No NP has made me feel particularly cramped, but I am not willing to play a game of dare with the the iced pavement ( Read more... )

For the first time, I spent most of my day wandering Shanghai on my own and I have to admit it was quite the success. Wearing headphones helps me ignore the hovering sales people itching to make a commission. I just pretend I don't hear them when they are talking to me, which I really half can't hear them and I just choose to keep my earbuds ( Read more... )

My last hurrah trip before the start of school in January, yay ( Read more... )

5 years later and I finally peeled off the scab. Everything was different. Absolutely everything.

I am not the same. The people weren't the same. The feeling wasn't the same.
The joy just wasn't there.

"Don't look at it as a problem - look at as a challenge."

Ok.

I can't say this enough - I love my job. How did I get so lucky ( Read more... )

Eloquence is gift. Although it can be developed, I find some individuals are far better at expressing themselves.

There are several kinds of love. One is a selfish, mean, grasping, egotistical thing which uses love for self-importance. This is the ugly and crippling kind. The other is an outpouring of everything good in you -- of kindness and ( Read more... )

I find myself at a fork in the road. I finally found the answer to a lingering question.

However, now I'm not sure how I want to proceed.

Uh.

How much information is too much information?

K.P-B.

Thank you Dr. Hagobian for inspiring me in Kine 302 to run a marathon and for Professor Olmstead reminding me of my goal. In both their classes, they asked us if anyone had run a marathon and both times, no one raised their hand. Those experiences made me feel embarrassed to be a kinesiology major pursuing a health professional career who had never ( Read more... )

I haven't talked to someone on the phone this much for a long time. It's been over three years actually.

Not sure what to think...but it made my shit day much better. Thanks, friend.

Whoa now, I'm started to feel I'm not ready to leave SLO.

I have so many hiking trails that I haven't been able to experience yet and still want to. My favorite coffee shop has finally opened a branch downtown close to my house. The weather is SO beautiful and I want to stay here to enjoy it because home will only be monotonous responsibility.

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