normal

Posted on April 14, 2012

I guess the main reason I so enjoy doing laundry, and dishes, and cleaning, etc. is because it just makes me feel so normal. and normalcy is good. Especially after these…how to call it…. turbulent, ‘trials and tribulation’ type times. I don’t quite  know how to explain, but it just feels soothing or whatever to realize ( Read more... )

“Do not be afraid, do not be discouraged”

Posted on March 11, 2012

I learned some new polish vocabulary(which I don’t know how to spell): boli, loot, guave, pletsa, poopa (pain, ice, head, back, butt). Yep, it’s the hospital experience. I slipped on some ice right outside the office building Monday last week (27th of February) after the first day of ( Read more... )

Serendipity

Posted on February 27, 2012

I was just considering again how perfectly everything has come together. Previously I wrote about what a miracle it was that I made a friend with whom I am able to stay for two weeks until the “perfect” apartment is ready for me to move in. But really, the greater miracle (actually, they’re codependent) is the ( Read more... )

I keep reminding myself of that statement (the title of this journal entry) that I'm as smart as I'm supposed to be. But still, I wish I was as smart as I used to be :(  which apparently I'm not anymore. I had to take a stupid IQ type test for a job I was applying to. I wasn't even all that nervous because as far as I remember, last time I took one ( Read more... )

I promise I wasn't  feeling very sentimental, or depressingly nostaligic again, but the other day I wrote this ( Read more... )

 Good old Henry Nouwen. I swear he reads my blog ;) (just kidding) ...but seriously. i write something in this LJ... and the next day, I check my email and there's a 'daily devotional' from Henry (because i subscribed to it) and it's totally related to what I wrote about!  ...it probably works kind of like a horoscope. It's so general that you can ( Read more... )

If a time traveler could take me back to this time last year, I would say: no thanks, i'm fine here ( Read more... )

I'm quite enthralled by this autumn season! :) I don't know where I've been the past two autumns, I must have been hibernating, because I don't recall ever seeing anything this beautiful.

Here's a picture. This is what I mean:

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So here's what happened: I was biking back to my room wednesday night, around 10:30pm, with two of my friends. They were biking slightly ahead of me. Then, I thought I heard someone calling "help", so I slowed down and looked across the canal, to the park-area where the sound seemed to be coming from, and I heard it again "help." Well, someone else ( Read more... )

I'm going to write. As in, right now. I shall write. I don't know what yet, but I was just thinking; Maybe I should write in this journal more often. Like everyday, even. For a while at least. Maybe that'll be fun. I've been trying out 'new' things lately. Just to see what it's like. For example, I started writing only letters - no more emails - to ( Read more... )