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I am very thankful for Saturdays.

This Saturday has been a wonderful break from a week full of canvassing and thinking and indecision.

Although the past week has still been for sem break, I can't really say that I haven't been doing anything not work-related. It's funny how, after a period of intense activity and draining mental work, a reprise where ( Read more... )

I promised myself that for the semestral break, I would write at least one decent article which might possibly be published. Instead, I signed up for NaNoWriMo.

I've heard about this for the past couple of years, but never really quite understood what it entailed. I'm still in the process of trying to understand what exactly I'd gotten myself into. ( Read more... )

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I called in sick today.

And I feel more sick than can be observed. I can't seem to find enough strength to speak, and find it difficult to do anything at all.

Before you think this is going to be a self-pity entry, let me just say that it's been too long a semester to think that this is going to be solved by writing a pity entry. So, instead, I'm ( Read more... )

Yesterday, PDI had an article on suicide as part of its 2bU section.

With this attention on suicide, one cannot help but wonder how the suicide rate among the younger generation has gone up. The reasons are as varied as its effects on the loved ones they leave behind, yet the end is all quite the same-- the snuffing of life with one's own hands.

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I don't know about my students... or other profs.

But I really am looking forward to the end of this semester.

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