What is stressing me out right now? I'm just sitting here with no tangible responsibilities, feeling stressed, and I'd like to know why. I thought having a planner would help, and it does. Nonetheless, it's time for the stress-buster that has yet to fail me: a list. Lists reduce boiling knots of so-called problems into the manageable human ( Read more... )

Today I: called Safeway and Gamestop about applications I submitted last week (no immediate luck, but I'm optimistic), filed my taxes, halfway filled out FAFSA, scoured Craigslist for local jobs to no avail, filled out an application to be a census taker for the government, filled out the form to cash out on my life insurance, arranged to start ( Read more... )

The other day, lovely turkeys walked up the street. Yes lovely! I never knew. Thick and shimmery rainbow feathers ( Read more... )

I hate weighted, cumulative finals. You work hard all semester but then it all comes down to ONE DAY and if you fail that one measly test, all your work was for nothing and you have to do it all over again. Couldn't I just have cut out all the middle work, skipped the lectures, studied for this mega test and been done? They would say "you wouldn't ( Read more... )

9AM - Driver loudly revs engine at me as I cross street. Speeds by behind me leaving maybe an inch between us. I think, "Must be in a hurry." The car pulls into Del Taco.

Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, like the monstrous sacrilege of bacon in the salad. BACON IN THE SALAD. BACON... SALAD. An inedible comedy ( Read more... )

Adorably awesome!

It is VITAL to keep a sense of wonder! It might be the first thing that goes in the hurricane of adolescence, and when it wanders back in the post-storm calm, we don't always recognize it ( Read more... )

You know when you're just going along, hands in pockets, strutting just a little, in a secret sort of way, maybe some amped-bass funk playing in your head -- and then whaw-PAM! Someone flicks over one of your dominoes, and you didn't even know you had any.