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Last Day of Summer
Tomorrow it's back to the grindstone. Not that there wasn't grindstoning going on this summer, mind you, but work is very different type of effort than school. With school, there's that endless sense of never being done - there's always more reading to do, more studying, more, more, more. With work, when you're done, you're done. Well, assuming ( Read more... ) -
Summer NaNo!
Since my Novembers are kind of spoken for for the next two years, I decided that I'd do my own NaNo this summer. My goal is to write 1000 words a day through June, July and as much of August as is needed to finish a draft (hopefully it'll be around wrapping up time then). I meant to actually start at the beginning of June rather than towards the ( Read more... ) -
Freaking Out Is Fun To Do
Why is it that strong destructive (I'm not going to say completely negative, but usually negative) emotions like panic, rage, self-loathing and hopelessness can be so tempting? I think it's the surrender of control. Sometimes I feel like I do nothing spontaneously, like I'm constantly checking and double checking everything in my mind. Sometimes I ( Read more... ) -
Things I've Learned as I've Gotten Older
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Time Keeps on Slipping
I got an email last week letting me know that my auto-payment for my paid user account was about to go through and would I like to cancel payment? I was kind of ambivalent about it, but ambivalent + auto-pay + passage of time = paying for another year. Meh. So I figured I might as well post something. Spending money on something I'm not using makes ( Read more... ) -
February in a Nutshell
Oh 2010, quit being so difficult. It's not that bad, I suppose. My big worry for the semester was that I'd do poorly last semester and thus feel insecure about this semester, or that I'd do so well that I was paranoid about slipping up. As it turns out, the issue has been that I'm just not as engaged. I guess that's a bit to be expected - I had ( Read more... ) -
Odds and Ends
I said at the new year that I wanted to journal more. Since then, taking the time to sit down and actually write has seemed like too much effort. I've been in something of a funk all night though, so maybe writing will clear my head a bit. The last time I updated I was in a funk too. These seem to come every few weeks, stick around for a couple of ( Read more... ) -
On Funks and Law School
I've been in a funk for most of the day. It's a combination of a number of things. I got back from volunteering in El Paso on Saturday, an experience that was very good, but also extremely draining on a number of levels - I slept very poorly, drank too much (which partially contributed to the sleeping poorly), was around other people 24/7, was ( Read more... ) -
2009 In Review - Cut because this is a doozy.
It's been a while since I updated here, a fact I'm sorry for. Facebook and Twitter have really become the places where I keep track of people, but this place is more for me than anything else. I'm going back and reading my entries for the year as I write this, and it's really nice to be reminded where I was, and how far I've come. I also like doing ( Read more... ) -
Topics
I've been accumulating a list of things that would be interesting to journal about when I actually have/make the time for it. So I don't forget, I'm writing them down ( Read more... )