Victory in the face of finals!I have completed the knit headband (one of my two secret projects, in case you were keeping score), and it’s glory is featured above!Having other projects like that one really keeps me sane in the face of other more overwhelming tasks, like art projects and essays. I am occasionally asked […]
When I am writing, I become completely absorbed. By the words on the page, by the feel of the pencil in my hand or the keys underneath my fingertips. Rarely, in the rest of my life, do I get to be so focused.The same thing happens only when I am talking out an idea with […]
I recently heard from my father about a death of someone close to him. I did not know this man well, but I knew him in passing. He was in poor health and there were a lot of complications; we knew that he was going to die at some point, though it was still a […]
Whoops! This post is a little late, but I will still count it as a daily post because it’s the wee hours of the morning, which, in my head, are counted as the late hours of last night.Anyway, this post is about expanding your horizons and how it can be so very frustrating at times.Take […]
This is just a short post that’s going to roll in under the radar – I’ve been trying to furiously catch up on word count today, so I’ve written 3000+ words and have come up to 25,150. I need to be at 30,006 by tomorrow at midnight, so between then and now I have to […]
Today I worked on just about everything but NaNo, which I told myself that I was going to catch up on completely. I did not write one word all weekend and, as a consequence, have to write 6107 words at least by tonight’s end to be on track. I think I can do it, but […]
(click to see a larger version) Today is my 19th birthday. It was a fairly low key affair spent with gourmet pizza, vegan desserts (Pala Pizza and Babycakes are both delicious!), and my dear roommate Liberty. For the workaholic in me, there was also a gift: I mandated that I could do no work today […]
Think Simple Now has got to be one of my favorite sites right now. I read a lot of their articles just to peruse the different ideas for feeling better, having better self-image, and creating a better environment.Alongside TUTs Adventurer’s Club and Gala Darling, they need to be given their props for teaching me many […]