I have a love/hate relationship with lists. At the beginning of every month, I get out my well-worn planner and write two lists down in red pen: Accomplishments and Goals. The notes can range from personal things (like, see more of the city) to academic things (make sure to get homework done in advance) to […]
Sometimes, when you work on a project for too long, it starts to look like a mass of craziness. You heave an internal sigh whenever you look at the thing and hope to God that it passes for something not hideous. That, my friends, is what happened to me with my negative space note card […]
440 pages.That was the amount that I read in three days here. Not that I’m complaining, because it was for really enjoyable classes and I expected this semester to be harder than the last, but still! It feels like an astronomical calculation – amazingly, though I do wonder at it, I do not want to […]
This is my fifteen minute blog before I go to bed tonight. Because I must go to bed by 1am so that I can wake up in time to shower and get to class tomorrow morning. I must.I feel like work is sometimes beating me down and, rather than rising to the occasion, I sat […]
I’ll take my pick. As foretold by the ancient seniors of old, I believe that my desire to do anything has just gone down tenfold. Scratch that. My desire to do things remains the same, but my motivation surrounding said things is waning. Following the days of my intense productivity, my “normal” mode has been […]
…I am procrastinating again. Seriously, I have 1 essay left out of 3, and I’m a quarter finished with it, but the motivation just fell out beneath my feet right now. So… blog post!I am proud to say that the muse has returned to me – I am able now to write spontaneously without the […]
Today the workhorses trampled me.Last night I finally realized that I was awake and that I could work, and so I stayed up and finished la plupart de mes devoirs and then was able today to finish up some crucial elements of Speak. I think that the vision will come together quite nicely, despite the […]
This year I have pledged to myself that I will win NaNoWriMo.And this promise, so far, seems to be on track. But I am still teetering right on the edge of whether there will be another 35,000 words jumping at the edges of my psyche by the end of the month – it is, of […]
I have arrived home after a week and a half of our two-person crazy fest. Shouting/taking pictures/watching Current TV/dancing/clashing over musical tastes/changing clothes 50 bajillion times/talking until late hours about everything – that was the vacation time. I think we got a little bit on each other’s nerves, but that’s probably because I’m more surly […]
I bought some new plants.Since I don’t really like those types of plants with flowers and whatnot, I bought an aloe vera and a moses-in-the-cradle, which now adorn my room in their pots. I’m going to try hard to keep them alive; my last aloe vera plant did pretty well until one sad day [probably […]