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I have been terrible at updating this. I have spent the summers riding every morning and Finn has been doing great. At his first show he got the best dressage score I have ever gotten.

I went to Chicago for Lollapalooza. I stayed with xtiana and we enjoyed unhealthy food and sunshine. I got to see Gav and his girl that I actually really liked. Lots ( Read more... )

The Proust Questionnaire has its origins in a parlor game popularized (though not devised) by Marcel Proust, the French essayist and novelist, who believed that, in answering these questions, an individual reveals his or her true nature. Here is the basic Proust Questionnaire.

1. What is your idea of perfect happiness?
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Sunday - horse show at CDCTA
Monday- circuit training
Tuesday - Dressage school
Wednesday - cross country schooling
Thursday - Dressage school
Friday - Dressage school and going to lesson with Mara Dean
Saturday - KILLER dressage school
Today - Intense jump school then all day at show at Surefire

I am so tired. and so sore. I have ridden harder in the past ( Read more... )

I have been really bad about updating my booklist, so I am just going to try to remember what I can.


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I made it through another Father's day without a father. I actually got the chance to go to a one-day event and got to see old friends and be around the sun and fields and horses. And that was nice. But then on the way home I got the most blinding headache that can only come from the emotional tsunami that smacks me in the back of the head ( Read more... )

I am just going to buck up and dive into Russian. For my field I simply will eventually need Russian, so no point perfecting my German when Russian would be more relevant (though require much more work to be ready for exams in August). I can do it.

I am considering pulling a Masters in Foreign Policy with my PhD, and they offer a joint program. The ( Read more... )

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I am way behind. Pathetically. I HAVE to stay updated. Here are the ones I remember from the past month or so:

Book #005


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This is still my favorite book. Quotes from The History of Love

Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.

You could say it was love for her that saved him. In the years that followed, the boy became a man that became invisible. In this way, he escaped death.

To paint ( Read more... )