I  can't really remember a time when I was this busy... throughout high school, college and even the year I took off, perhaps I had one commitment, like work or school, at one time, but the way everything has been stacking up this year has given me less and less time for reflection and really taking time for myself.  I'm counting on the end of the ( Read more... )

 It's what I was fearing.  I've found grey hairs on my head before, here and there, and didn't think too much of it.  I would just pull them out.  Then a few months ago I found... two.  The other day I found even more.  They're at the point now where there are too many for me to feasibly pull out in one sitting.  I'm officially going grey.  My mom ( Read more... )

 
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First day of school!  It went well.  Most of my classes are 100+ students (mainly filling gen-ed requirements) which makes me a bit nostalgic for Smith/Exeter... sort of.  I still can't decide if I prefer being anonymous or not.  At this point, I'm pretty much set to finish up college in the most efficient manner possible, while getting the most ( Read more... )

 Lately I've done a horrible job of keeping in touch with people, in particular those I really enjoy hanging out with and who mean a lot to me... this needs to be worked on.  I'll be making more of a point to hang out at Smith too ( Read more... )

I realize now that I haven't put the word out there to many people, for a variety of reasons, but my father just had heart surgery.  It went well, there were no complications and he's recovering fine... I'm very thankful.  I imagine anyone who has ever been forced into slave labor while at my house by him feels much the same way (apparently the ( Read more... )

 I just ran through two feet of snow in slippers to the middle of my field.  Why, you ask?  To take pictures of a barred owl that just flew over my head as I was coming down my driveway and subsqeuently landed in a tall tree to nap.  Unfortunately, my camera couldn't zoom in enough to get  a very good quality shot of him, but I got a good enough ( Read more... )

There are coyotes howling up a storm around my house.  Well, it may be just one in particular.  It's definitely in my yard though, and I think he's Spanish because he's making the rolling R sound, ergo I name him Julio.  He's actually close enough that my dog is getting pissed, wanting him to STFU already ( Read more... )

 1- Your age on your next birthday. (This is an F-22):
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It really is an interesting experience living at home again, after being away for two years (well, more like four if you count Exeter and Smith).  In one sense it's comforting, and in another it's driving me insane.  All the childhood battles never really go away, the bad feelings, the insecurities.  People don't change all that much, when you get ( Read more... )