Over the past few weeks, I've been thinking a whole lot about my approach to life and how it affects my experience. One big thing that prompted all of it was that I went to a Christian graduate student retreat the last week of February; the theme was "radical hospitality" and the program was a weekend long. Oddly enough, one of the most impactful ( Read more... )

See through pain, see to Truth,

it's what the worst of us have no choice but to do.

When I crave the high I see others enjoying, I stage an uprising against all that is real.

I plot to paint an immortal mural using a mortal medium,

strokes placed by a petite blast in my psyche, a cheap knock-off of the nukes you got your hands on,

originating in the ( Read more... )

I will begin by saying that I spent today relaxing; I needed to after the joke of regression midterm I had yesterday! Basically, I made the asinine/brilliant decision of staying up til 3am on Wednesday night typing up field notes that were due for my qualitative methods class at 7:40pm Thursday, only to wake up at 7:30am on Thursday and haul ( Read more... )

I need a trick-or-treat costume idea. Nothing tacky, please. Thanks :-D

I don't really know how to put it, but I have a very hard time staying happy anymore.  I mean "happy" in somewhat of a broad sense...kind of something that includes feeling a sense of direction, feeling like I have something worth looking forward to, feeling like I'm making the right decisions for myself, and feeling generally positive affect (as ( Read more... )

As of a few minutes ago, my Facebook account has been officially deactivated.  I originally said I'd wait til October, but I figured it wouldn't make a difference seeing as pretty much anyone who had any interest in maintaining contact with me has already made attempts to do so (or at least those who I BELIEVE valued contact with me did); I also ( Read more... )

As I've already told 300 billion people, online class discussions can kiss my ass. Why? Because they involve 90 billion people who are in fields that you're OBVIOUSLY not super-interested in (hence you did a Ph.D. in SOMETHING ELSE) and those people usually hijack the discussion and take it some route in which the IS no discussion because no one ( Read more... )

As usual, the easy/fun way: LIST!!!! Thoughts from the beginning of my second year...

- The doctoral thing gets much easier after you get through the first year of horrible lifestyle and horrible course material: you figure out how to have a support network so you don't die (and if you didn't find that network, you may have already dropped out)
- It ( Read more... )

Ya know, this happens way too often: it's relatively late, I decide I need to go to bed so I don't die the next day, and then my mind starts running in high-speed mode so I don't fall asleep. This time it was the mental to-do list at 1:30am that woke me up because I forgot to email something to my mom and I felt like I'd forget if I didn't do it ( Read more... )

So, I went through and tagged all my blog entries, and I had to skim the old entries to have a clue what to tag on them. In light of that skimming, I probably should post a brief updatey post. 

• I posted a while ago that I went natural by accident, and I should probably update that by saying I big chopped by accident. I'm officially short- and curly ( Read more... )