So by this time in my winter break I'm about as ready to go back to my second "home" in knoxville as I was to come back home from school. Don't get me wrong, home-cooked meals and parental guidance are great and all, but I'm ready to get back to the routine I've made for myself at UT. I had forgotten how drama-ridden my home life was and how ready ( Read more... )

updates on a lovely thanksgiving later. procrastinating sleep now. Final exams are coming up next week and then the monday after that is my last one. What a relief. I can't quite say whether this semester seems to have gone by quickly or slowly. All I can say is that I've gotten a taste of a nice break from school (no pun intended) and now I'm ( Read more... )

Alright, so I don't want to seem as though all I do is complain on my LJ, but I feel better doing it on here than to other people. Here follows a relatively ordinary story about a relatively uninteresting but irrationally irritating event ( Read more... )

“Knowledge is important. Not relevant knowledge, not practical knowledge. Not the kind of knowledge that enables one to wield power, achieve success, or influence others: knowledge ( Read more... )

Excuse me, but I'd like to propose ( Read more... )

Some weekends are just better spent alone ( Read more... )

I never thought when I started college that I'd be sitting here way too late once again having to get up in three hours for PT. ROTC, besides being my favorite class, has been an amazing experience. I knew going in it would be a challenge. I'm not sure if the promise of a tough workout and doing things like shooting guns and doing rock climbing and ( Read more... )

So I'm officially erasing my Facebook this weekend (pending I figure out how to get my photos off, I don't know how). Anyways, I have come to the conclusion that it is an immense waste of my time. Other than keeping in touch with people I never get to see, it really serves no purpose, and even then those people could simply...oh, i dunno, call or ( Read more... )

Try hard as you may, but you cannot break...no, will not break through the wall which stands so tall before you; not concrete at all but fog, for you weren't meant to. Barriers are never concrete, they always allow just enough of a glimpse of the other side. Go ahead and rub your eyes. Squint a little more. But all you'll see is, once again, an ( Read more... )

>sunday's on campus(there is actual TOTAL silence bc everyone is passed out in bed)
>taking walks through the park by myself
>sitting in the evenings with the hooka kids listening to music