I had this vivid image in my head about an hour ago. I was thinking about desire and how sometimes it holds us exactly where we are and other times it propels us forward with a force so uncommon that we don't know what hit us. Isn't that strange that a single emotion can cause two very different and powerful reactions? Anyway, I was thinking about ( Read more... )

What a difference a few days make, huh? I finished putting all of the final touches on my papers last night and tonight has been stress-free and WONDERFUL. I am going to enjoy the next two weeks off like never before. Everything really does taste sweeter when you've worked hard for it.

After tomorrow, I will officially be 1/4 of the way done ( Read more... )

Shane Claiborne is AWESOME.

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To all my nonbelieving, sort-of-believing, and used-to-be-believing friends:

I feel like I should begin with a confession. I am sorry that so ( Read more... )

I haven't forgotten about you and I'm still excited to be a part of your anthology. I'm just a busy grad student, so please forgive me. 2 more weeks until the end of the semester! Maybe I'll see you then?

Love,

Me

It's not over... yet. But I do have someone new in my life. Someone that fulfills my needs and wants at this moment in time. Don't you worry, we can still have our flings. We're just not exclusive anymore.

Thanks for everything. You've been great. Really.

Love,

Me

 Blah. Being sick SUCKS.
Having to write looooong papers while being sick sucks even more.
And yet, I remember saying once upon a time that I loved grad school.
Oh, how silly and naive I was back then. You know, a whole month ago.
Actually, I still love it. It's just a little more of a complicated relationship now.

Also, contemplating deleting this blog ( Read more... )

 I was thinking last night about passion.

I have been using that word a lot in the past few months. Passion for this, passionate about that.... it's a pretty word. And a scary word. And I'm so thankful that I have it driving me. Without passion - and coffee, which I am pretty sure was God's gift to grad students - I'm not sure how I would be doing ( Read more... )

Rainer Maria Rilke said, Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart.  I love that quote, those words, that idea. Maybe I love it because its something I am not very good at. A beautiful concept to stare at on the wall, like a famous painting. Something you only see in movies, but would never happen in your own life.

I am so in love with ( Read more... )

There have been some weird things going on in my life lately.

Well, not that weird, but unusual, I guess you could say. Yeah, unusual is a better word, since they are not necessarily weird but just not-of-the-usual.

So I was pretty psyched a few weeks ago because LiveJournal notified me that one of my entries was selected for the anthology they are ( Read more... )

I am going to be a social worker.

I've known that for a few months now, assuming I finished the program and all of that. But what I know now - after three weeks of classes, ridiculously interesting textbooks, wonderful professors and an awesome cohort - is that I am supposed to be a social worker.

I cried in class the other day because one of the ( Read more... )