Over 50% of my journal entries contain incomplete sentences. That is a conservative estimate. At least ten lack coherent thoughts. At first, I attributed these occurrences to a desire to vague or a shortage of time. Now, I see signs that it stems from a lack of practice. Analogy, observations of older adults' writing skills, and personal ( Read more... )

I had a wonderful evening last night with E and NE. I hadn't seen NE since Christmas Fest, so it was very nice to catch up with him. We sat around and talked for about two hours before popping in Interview with a Vampire. E and I made the apparent mistake of trying out the natural gas fireplace that my family had just had installed that morning ( Read more... )

I had my annual check-up today, and I must say that my doctor gets me ( Read more... )

I jogged this evening. Partially. It was a programmed setting on our treadmill called "Canyon Run." It never goes fast that 6mph, so it's rather tame. The canyon part comes from its changing incline and speed. Three minutes at 4mph with an incline rating of 5; one minute at 5mph with an incline rating of 0; three minutes at 4mph with an ( Read more... )

Here's the truth: law school scares the living daylights out of me. I don't know if I have the academic drive anymore. I don't know if I'm up to the emotional strain. I don't know if I ever want to pull an all-nighter again for the rest of my life for anything less than another person. That's what made my last year or so of college so ( Read more... )

Ben and I attended church together this morning. No mom or dad. No Adam. We sat next to each other in the rear pew and share a hymnal now and then. He and I left the service right after I sang with the choir to teach our rotation of Sunday School. The third graders and fourth graders have their classes together. I lead third grade; he leads ( Read more... )

In all that thinking about decisions in my path, I realized that some of my goals and priorities conflict. I would like to begin law school between one and five years from now. I would like to attend without taking out anymore loans. I would like to pay off my current student loans before then. I would like to have bought a house within five ( Read more... )

There are so many decisions. Decisions about work, decisions about family, decisions about money, decisions about friends, decisions about decisions ( Read more... )

E met me with a rose at work today. We had planned to meet in the lobby of my office tower before going out for lunch. I told him that I wasn't buying him anything for Valentine's Day. He told me that he couldn't imagine going without giving his girlfriend even a rose on Valentine's Day. So he didn't. I got to pick the restaurant. I tried to ( Read more... )

My muse returned. My muse returned as a cup of coffee with too much sugar and just enough explosive non-dairy creamer. My muse returned as candy-coated chocolate chips and five pounds of strawberry licorice twists, blue raspberry Jolly Ranchers and maple and brown sugar Malt-O-Meal. My muse returned in praise and encouragement. It returned a ( Read more... )