I know there is some contention about whether there is such a thing as monthly quotas for traffic tickets, but I will mention that it just happened to be March 31 this past Wednesday, when I took an ill-fated turn down a side street near school, erroneously thinking there was a chance the universe might … Read more
Since I’m sick with a cold and classes are over, I don’t HAVE to go out. So I’m not going out. It takes a few days of being cooped up in the house before I actually want to start organizing. That time has come. So I am slowly going through the pile of papers on … Read more
These are images from two shirts I have recently ordered from shirtWOOT. Shirts from this site cost ten bucks, including shipping, and are created by various artists from all over who send in their designs. I think there is some kind of voting process as well, but I don’t vote, I just check in once … Read more
I woke up this morning thinking about how soon after I was first diagnosed with cancer, I went to see a lecture by Buddhist teacher Soygal Rinpoche. He gave us a visualization to work with that was about a Buddha floating over your head, who poured a kind of golden elixir that would enter the … Read more
One of the first weekends this semester I haven’t been totally slammed with deadlines—a combination of both my writing classes having a “polish week” on the outlines of our projects (one is a screenplay, the other a spec script for a TV sitcom), and the holiday three day weekend—no classes Monday for President’s Day. I … Read more
Somehow, by mid-semester I always realize that I have a couple of classes that are awesome and that I would be happy devoting my life to, and then one ridiculously labor intensive class that makes me feel like A) my head is going to explode B) I am wasting valuable moments of my life C)I … Read more
More Things I Fear 1) I fear sleep deprivation, but I also fear underachieving in my obligations…I experience both, and usually compromise by staying up long enough to get just enough work done, and just enough sleep so that I can survive for a week before having a huge crash-out every ten days or so. … Read more
This week’s synchronized blog topic, suggested by Mya, is “Fear.” For other thoughts on the subject, check out, Susie, Katie and …and if you would like to write about this topic, send a comment, and I’ll mention you in a post! My eighth grade biology teacher once told us that if you are scared of … Read more
I have now been tagged twice for a meme that asks me to post 5 things that people probably don’t know about me. Once by my friend Sandra and the other by my friend Matt, who has the Zotblog…but who also has this blog where he actually posted his five things. One is that when … Read more
It happens every couple years that I decide yes, I will do Christmas cards, but I don’t alway get all the way through the task. Fortunately, Valentines Day and St Paddy’s are both completely legitimate card sending holidays, even if the letter is dated somewhere in late December. Which is why this weekend, while shopping … Read more