Adjusting Your Expectations
A couple of weeks ago, my best friend and I started to read through the “novel” I wrote during my 8th and 9th grade years in school. It opens on the protagonist, a girl on her first day of high school, and says something akin to, “Four years from this…
I am Strong. I am Capable. I am Enough.
My last couple of posts have been… let’s say “intense.” I’ve been dealing with a lot of heaviness (both internal and external) that has made simply existing difficult, never mind excelling. It’s been a challenge just to survive my circumstances and get myself to the next minute, next hour, next…
23 is Hard: The Shamrock on the Office Ledge
Most English-speakers are familiar with the canary in the coal mine idiom, based on a practice that (up until very recently) helped alert miners to danger so they could have time to escape. The idea is that the canary will die before toxic gases like carbon monoxide can…
23 is Hard: The Long Arc
Training for a half marathon is generally one of two options for me: the most empowering thing I’m doing…
…or the most disheartening.
Last weekend, I upped my distance to 9 miles. My run on Saturday was phenomenal. I ran all 9 miles without stopping for…
23 is Hard: On Adult Friendships
My best friend and I have known each other for about ten years now. We met like most middle schoolers do – shared classes and a shared group of friends. We were both part of the middle school orchestra (and both in the back of the second violins….), which is…
Adventures in Cohabitating: Learning to Appreciate “Me Time”
It’s been an obscene amount of time since I’ve written (again), but I promise that will be changing (I mean it this time. Read on!). Here are some of the big things that have happened since the last time we chatted:
- March 20: my paternal
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Life Happens
So, I haven’t blogged in an obscene amount of time. It was one of those things where I got behind on my blogging schedule, and then I thought about having to do a longer update on why I hadn’t blogged in so long, and then it was another month later…
Remembering the “Life” Variable
I’ve always struggled with work/school/life balance. As in, most of the time the “life” part is generally the first thing to fall off when there are too many variables to balance the equation. That’s part of the reason why I haven’t blogged in over a month– because so many of…
Why
At the end of this month, I’ll find out if I’m a finalist for the Fulbright US Student Program, which is a grant program that awards funding over one year for students to pursue graduate studies, independent research, or teach English abroad. I submitted my application…