Are the games that we play as children just primers for our adult lives? Moves, counter-moves, specific strategies-they are all designed to keep whoever we see as our opponent off guard to get to what we want. But are they really beneficial? Granted when most people talk about "playing the game" in general, they often mean simply participate or act ( Read more... )

The spring semester has been flying by faster than I anticipated. Come to think of it, my entire life has been flying by rapidly. Check it, I am turning 21 in two weeks. Aside from the elation that I can finally drink legally, I have been going through the normal self-evaluation that inevitably occurs with every major milestone in my life. Here I ( Read more... )

Christmas is officially over and I am actually relieved. The shopping is done, presents are finished being exchanged, the food has been eaten, and most notably, the chaos is coming to a close. My Christmas was two parts fun, one part chaotic, and one part agitating. Christmas Eve proved to be the most frustrating because Michael's plans, not to his ( Read more... )

I have certainly been slacking on my updates, as you can tell. Things as usual have been busy. School for the most part has been decent. I did have to drop that retarded Ecology class because Dr. Sheriden is, lets just say, not that good of a teacher. However, I am glad I did, because I just found out this morning that the class average is now a 50 ( Read more... )

Well, well. I am back here again. In approximately six hours I have to get up and go to RIC for some dumb Ecology lab, which is the crappiest class ever, btw. During the past week or so it has not been school that has been weighing heavily on my mind. It most certainly has been my relationship with Mike that has taken precedence. I actually have ( Read more... )

The past three weeks have been pretty crazy. My workload at school is really nothing to sneeze at, which is expectable. This entire internship seems to be 8794789327943 times more demanding than I anticipated it to be, so I am not the happiest person right now. However, I did have some idea of what I was getting into, but as with every aspect of my ( Read more... )

Truthfully, how often do we feel in control of our lives? It seems the issue of control has been something I have been desperately trying to grapple with, with little success I should add. Many variables control our day-to-day life, such as time, money, weather, cars, jobs, personal commitments, the Red Sox, and most prominently, other people. As ( Read more... )

I have to go back to RIC in approximately one day. Bummer. :( I am overtired. double bummer.

Today I got to thinking about this past summer break and its entirety. This summer was extremely challenging. I spent most of it trapped in an lab that was far too warm and chaotic, with a professor who was in love with the sound of his own voice. However, I can not complain. It's completed and one less thing to worry about ( Read more... )

Chris Makolandra is perhaps one of the most cowardly and obnoxious people that God has ever created. I seriously do not appreciate the endless barrage of trashy text messages and voicemails. I do not appreciate him publicly stating that he is "sorry and wishes he could fix things", when we both now he had many opportunities to do so, and just didn’ ( Read more... )