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There's really no other way to describe it. For the past two weeks, I have been swept up in a whirlwind and I'm wondering when, and where, it's going to eventually deposit me. Hopefully soon because I'm starting to miss the ground. When someone dies and you're struck by it, it's hard to remember that the rest of the world keeps moving, life goes ( Read more... )

Something tragic happened this weekend that I didn’t know about until Monday night. I went about my Sunday and my Monday as though they were regular days. I worked as hard as I always do at a conference, smiling at customers, taking their course information, promising them that I’d send out their review copies. Monday morning, I washed my face ( Read more... )

"Honey, you are a rock ( Read more... )

So I go to a gym that's only for women. I love it. I live in a very affluent Jewish town. Two things that I am not. But it's fun too. It's a good reminder every now and then to feel a bit like an outsider. After being in college for 4 years, you sometimes forget that the rest of the world isn't composed of Bucknellians. I wish I had the time ( Read more... )

So last Friday, I was hurrying along, trying to get into my car by 7:30 so that I'd be a little early for my 8:30 meeting. We don't have a key to lock or unlock the backdoor (it's a fairly useless escape route) so I have to walk around to get to my car. I'm skipping along in a skirt since the weather was 50 or so when all of a sudden, I freeze. ( Read more... )

You know how they have that section in the entertainment part of msnbc? Well this is my version ( Read more... )

Some days what really burns me up is that I can't have a dog. And while I know it's impractical, and well not to mention cruel for me to get a dog right now, it just makes me so sad ( Read more... )

I miss my grandma.

Something I always forget when I'm attempting to be a hermit is that you don't allow it. When I want to crawl in under the covers and tune everything out, I'm really not able to. And that is the joy and misery of spreading yourself too thin. When you go missing, people take notice ( Read more... )