In conclusion
I still miss Alaska on a daily basis. I miss my mountain as well as the hike from my room to the WC. I miss the way a zero-humidity climate made my hair look. I miss bongos, and river parties, and epic adventures. It was refreshing to see Jillian this weekend.
Now that that's on the table, I will move on and spare you the details of what is now part of my past (thank me later). Life should be lived in the moment..._(grammar crisis! question mark or period.? Raising intonation or falling?)
**Topical LEAP (or is it...?)**
I wrote my first paper for 3000 last weekend. Naturally, procrastination was a major factor. As I was attempting to finish the paper the morning it was due (the assignment called for 3 pages and my paper is at 5 by this point) I vented my frustrations aloud: "I suck at conclusions. I can never end anything!"
Andrea: "That was rather profound, Bridget."
She's right (damn it).
I have a tendency to want to preserve things. Is this true of human nature? I cut out newspaper clippings (political comics, mostly...occasionally articles)and put them in a folder, and put the folder in a drawer and never look at them again until I take the folder out to add to it. Admittedly, I'm a pack rat. But it wasn't until Andrea made this comment that I realized to what extent my inability to come to a stopping point affects every area of my life: paper topics, pictures, objects (yes, I still have my baby blanket...but it's a security blanket...it's magical...and anyone who says it isn't is a big poop face), ideas, hobbies, people...places. In a word: Alaska. Ahh, full circle.
Now, how can I improve at endings? Meta-cognition is scary, that's why denial is so appealing. Now that I'm aware that I have a problem I have to find a way to deal with it. Or is my rambling a problem?
THE END. Mischief managed.
Now that that's on the table, I will move on and spare you the details of what is now part of my past (thank me later). Life should be lived in the moment..._(grammar crisis! question mark or period.? Raising intonation or falling?)
**Topical LEAP (or is it...?)**
I wrote my first paper for 3000 last weekend. Naturally, procrastination was a major factor. As I was attempting to finish the paper the morning it was due (the assignment called for 3 pages and my paper is at 5 by this point) I vented my frustrations aloud: "I suck at conclusions. I can never end anything!"
Andrea: "That was rather profound, Bridget."
She's right (damn it).
I have a tendency to want to preserve things. Is this true of human nature? I cut out newspaper clippings (political comics, mostly...occasionally articles)and put them in a folder, and put the folder in a drawer and never look at them again until I take the folder out to add to it. Admittedly, I'm a pack rat. But it wasn't until Andrea made this comment that I realized to what extent my inability to come to a stopping point affects every area of my life: paper topics, pictures, objects (yes, I still have my baby blanket...but it's a security blanket...it's magical...and anyone who says it isn't is a big poop face), ideas, hobbies, people...places. In a word: Alaska. Ahh, full circle.
Now, how can I improve at endings? Meta-cognition is scary, that's why denial is so appealing. Now that I'm aware that I have a problem I have to find a way to deal with it. Or is my rambling a problem?
THE END. Mischief managed.