Days go by

“Days go by, I can feel them flying like a hand out the window in the wind. The cars go by, yeah it’s all we’ve been given so you’d better start living right now… We talk about tomorrow, then it slips away.”  -Keith Urban, Days Go By
Today I registered for the final semester of my [...]

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Anticipating goodbye

“Please save this for me. I’ll come back for you, love, I promise to. Please save this for me for until I return my love will burn, and my heart will stay.” -Ludo, Please
The date of my departure is approaching. The months have flown by. The weekends were few and busy. The weeks remaining turned [...]

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Tuberculosis

I had to get a physical for my summer job, and part of it is a test to make sure I don’t have tuberculosis. They stabbed me with a short, fat needle and injected something or another that made a bubble under my skin. Now it’s a little bruised hole that makes me look like [...]

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Building a dam- a work in progress

“Any control I thought I had just slips right through my hands while my ever-present conscience shakes its head and reprimands me. Then and there I confess- I’ll blame all this on my selfishness.” -Relient K, When I Go Down

It’s one of those days- I can’t find words for the feeling that’s snuck up on [...]

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Contents of my trunk

“Whatchya gonna do with all that junk? All that junk inside that trunk?” -The Black Eyed Peas
The items I will be loading into my trunk (and backseat) tomorrow morning indicate that this Spring Break is sure to be epically awesome.

2 tents
1 single-burner and 1 double-burner propane stove
1 Kelty Durango backcountry backpack
1 life jacket
1 sleeping bag [...]

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Colorado, Paris, and the trappings of life

I feel that lately I’ve been hurtling through life at 110 mph nonstop. Days and weeks fly in a blur, tomorrow instantly becomes yesterday. News piles up. Deadlines come and go…things get neglected. I feel a little more like I did in high school- I never used to allow myself free time. Life is full, [...]

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What I (don’t) want to do when I grow up

I really need to be either studying or sleeping right now. I have a midterm tomorrow as well as a project of sorts for which I could be a lot more prepared. I closed again tonight at work (as I will be tomorrow also). It’s good to work, but this job is fairly exhausting. It’s [...]

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Jeremiah 29

“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when [...]

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I want my real life to be as fun as the youtube videos I watch

“Nothing is permanent in this wicked world- not even our troubles.” -Charlie Chaplin
This is my helplessly frustrated face. Imagine I am mid-sigh. (Yes, another whiny post. If you want to skip the whining, watch the video at the end.)
I learned nothing today, except not to expect anything.
I went to the doctor, ready to get some [...]

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New Year’s Resolutions (are dumb)

“Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.”- William Faulkner
Sitting in my room wrapped in a blanket, listening to music and sorting through some of my favorite quotes, I feel depressed. Not really depressed. Just…down. And reflective. If I did New Year’s Resolutions, now would be [...]

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