My hope and goal was to be done with classes and have the diploma in hand about, well, right now. Due to circumstances I’m not going to publish on the web, my summer class did not work out. So, this week I started my last class, take two. In a lot of ways, I’m thrilled [...]

Countdown to graduation: 12 hours, 27 minutes and 3 seconds. Last night was the Honors Program Reception. Each Honors Program graduate (44 this year!) received their medal and had a little profile read about them. Joyce, the Honors Program Coordinator, writes lovely profiles for each graduate each year. You can see them read my profile [...]

I had promised count down updates back on June 27, 2008, but somehow I never really did that. So, here I sit, with my computer flashing 12 days, 1 hour, and 40 minutes, and I feel the urge to give you all a countdown update. It may be one of my great productive procrastination techniques, [...]

Every once in a while something catches me off-guard and affects me in ways that I would have never guessed. Usually these are “bad” things that cause anxiety attacks, nightmares, insomnia, and other “fun” symptoms. Fortunately, life is occasionally kind, and the good can hit as strongly and cause joy like nothing else. Today was [...]

There is something about being up in the early morning. The still, the quiet, inspires me like no other time of the day. Today is no different.
I woke up with a coughing fit at around 3am. After getting some cough medicine and water, I decided to try to watch Gilmore Girls until I was tired [...]

This morning, as I sat at my computer drinking my coffee, I looked around me and realized how many of my favorite things were surrounding me. I decided I must take a picture and share!
On Sunday I noticed that the local grocery store had tulips on sale–two bunches for $10! I really wanted them, but [...]

Today is Halloween. I’m a college senior. I should be thinking about costume parties and too much candy, but instead I’m fretting about the upcoming election and finding a job after graduation. Now, it could be said that I’m not a typical college senior. I’ve been disabled, and as a result it’s taken me almost [...]

When Spring semester 2008 began, I downloaded a countdown widget that sits on top of whatever I’m doing on my computer. That first countdown counted down the days/hours/minutes to the thesis due date. Whenever I ran into the director of the English Senior Thesis program, I’d tell him exactly how long I had before it [...]

Last fall, I applied for a research grant to help cover some of the costs of my senior thesis. The application required a letter of recommendation from my thesis adviser. The letter he wrote was extremely complimentary–quite frankly, more complimentary than I felt I deserved. One thing that my adviser said about me in the [...]

Once upon a time in a faraway land, there was a girl whose life was far from a fairy tale. To get away from the reality of her life, she would read and read and read some more. She was enchanted by great literature and even fairy tales. Masterpieces filled with tragedy, romance, comedy, and [...]