How do you get through to-do lists? You hack away at each item, one by one. My problem is always wanting to do everything and everything at once. My sense of priorities is limited to deadlines, and really, deadlines are probably the worst kind of organizing principle. I always end up:

• spending a disproportionate amount of time on assignments due ( Read more... )

Happy New Year, everyone! And happy new decade! (Oh my gosh, can you believe it?) The idea of a new decade pretty much blows my mind; I still remember waiting for the ball to drop and wondering if anything would come of "Y2K." This turn of the decade is the first non-millenium turn of the decade that I remember-it's not the first one I lived ( Read more... )

So, I basically love this couple to pieces. I keep watching the end of SGA 3x16 "The Ark" over and over again. Love! [Nothing like rewatching favorite episodes ( Read more... )

It's funny that even though I've probably never updated this often in one week-with as many long, substantive posts-I still feel a little bummed that I didn't update every day. Crazy, isn't it? Just a few months ago, the thought of being this committed to blogging again-and to writing in general-was so distant and inaccessible, mired in the ( Read more... )

Merry Christmas, everyone!
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I  am pretty sure that I will get absolutely no comments on this entry, but that's okay. I wanted to throw these ideas out into the universe, so here I go. =P ( Read more... )

The sky must be falling. Why else am I updating two days in a row? (I probably haven't done that since... 2005? Wow, um, yeah. I've pretty much been a horrible LJ friend.) I guess the revelation that not writing has been soul-destroying (figuratively, of course) for the last two years of my college experience makes me never want to go down that ( Read more... )

I  think the thought is only starting to sink in. I finished writing something. Oh my goodness, I finished writing something! This, my friends, is a momentous occasion. Momentous. I am quieting my inner self-critic and relishing this moment-because this is a moment to celebrate(!) CELEBRATE!

Okay, clearly, this is only starting to sink in as I ( Read more... )