After several months of good intentions, I have migrated to another blogging platform. It's possible that I might continue to post here from time to time. I do like the privacy. In the meantime, you can find me here: www.sherewin.com.
If you have another blog or space to write, let me know and we can follow each other <3

I've found myself alone again. After a weekend of emotional upheaval, I am getting back to my go-to solo routine. Did that sound sexual? Truly, it's been a very romantic weekend. I've turned my attention to finishing the book we started together. Then I watched Midnight in Paris, which was so completely lovely and escapist (but also a commentary on ( Read more... )

Yesterday was one of the worst days of my life. A bad day, but a necessary day. I participated in a custody hearing, and seeing a mother lose her child in a custody battle is one of the most heart wrenching things I've ever witnessed. This mother has reached a point in her life where the state and the people around her no longer feel she can ( Read more... )

OMG, family is stressful. I've been in tears more than once, and I've only been here a week. Still, I love them and it's worth it and yadda yadda yadda. I'm trying to use this time to relax and rejuvenate, and to a certain extent, I am being successful ( Read more... )

As I prepare to leave this place, I realize that I have made very few good friends in the past four years here. Good friendship is almost always based in a shared sense of humor. Although I have built some strong, close relationships, they have not come close to the friendships I have found in my undergraduate years, my first graduate degree, or ( Read more... )

I've been researching platforms for my new blog. For some reason, starting a blog seems necessary, but completely nerve wracking. It seems much more public than livejournal, although it really doesn't have to be. I also feel like I can be overly emotional here, which I enjoy tremendously ( Read more... )

I think I'm going to switch over to a blog and leave LJ behind. Not now, but soon. I don't like their new format of only showing posts from the last two weeks. It makes this space feel ghostly. The new blog will document the Next Phase of my life - when I am no longer a student.

I mentioned earlier that I am a planner. So not knowing what I'm going to be doing in the next few months is particularly challenging to me. Next week I have an on campus interview. Mostly, I feel comfortable and excited about it, but last night I had a series of stress dreams that indicate otherwise. In the dreams, I was too hungry, too hot, too ( Read more... )

We lost a ewe today. One of my big life goals is to run a sheep farm someday. That might be in the next year. That might be in 20 years. Maybe it will be a sheep dairy! That said, one of the worries I have about raising livestock is that 1) animals die, and 2) sometimes you have to kill them to put them out of their misery. Since we lost a ewe ( Read more... )

Despite cough and fever, I interviewed well enough for an on campus interview at one of the few places where I can actually see myself working. Last night, the cold moved from my lungs to my sinuses. My head is still in a fog. I was up on and off last night and slept until late this morning. After a week of excitedly "seeing" myself at this new ( Read more... )