Remember how I used to do personality tests all the time, because I had no clue who I was? Well, I have a much better idea now. Anyway, I'm part of a pilot group at my school concerning positive psychology and we're going to have a talk with some psyc researcher today, and for that we had to complete a 240 question Character Strength survey and ( Read more... )

You know when you are on the edge and all you need is something really teeny tiny to send you tumbling down a hill, limbs flailing wildly, hitting every rock, shrub, tree and thorn along the way?  Last night, that teeny tiny thing came in the form of a unexpectedly low (or not nearly as high as expected) grade ( Read more... )

The fact that there's a Brazil woman, who used to live in Dallas, who is slightly younger than I am, and who's been with her white American bf for slightly less time than I've been with mine, and today they got engaged.... makes me kinda nauseated.
I know, I know... it's wrong of me to get annoyed and stuff - but I am!

[context: I've been snowed in my apartment since Friday due to the worst blizzard in DC history. Today and Sunday were the only days that I could leave the apartment and that was just to go to the parking lot to dig out my car, but not drive bc the roads aren't plowed. Also, I'm PMSing. So drama and neuroticism are on high, influencing but not ( Read more... )

There is a concept that some of my otherwise intelligent friends and relatives cannot understand. That concept is "lack of money". They just can't it. For them, money is something that's just there. It magically appears in their bank accounts and makes their credit card balances disappear - all without any effort on their part. The vast majority of ( Read more... )

Can one truly understand or empathize with discrimination if they've never experienced it?

I love my boy, but the one subject that he seems not to understand at all is discrimination. Granted, he's a WASP, so how would he know? But instead of trying to understand he just gets really uncomfortable, changes the subject immediately, and acts like there ( Read more... )

Female lawyers must wear skirt suits. No pantsuits. That's right, pants are for boys, skirts are for girls. What year is this????
Our university had told us that skirt suits are recommended for women because they're more traditional. They said recommended not required. Tomorrow, there's a externship/internship fair at my school and I'll go in a ( Read more... )

I need to find balance. I absolutely suck at balance. And I don't mean the balance that keeps you from falling. I have accepted the fact that I cannot walk in a straight line and that I'm very talented at falling. Not that ( Read more... )

Where there was but sunshine, now there is a cloud. A dark, heavy, impending cloud that sometimes I can ignore and sometimes I cannot.

Now is one of those times where I cannot. My relationship with my boyfriend has been life-altering. Being in love, requited love, has added a certain hope and joy into my life that I never thought I'd see again. It ( Read more... )

WTF is wrong with LJ that I can only scroll to the first 20 previous posts on my friends page??? Why remove access to the other "20 older" links? Idiots ( Read more... )