What I've been up to:

• vacationed in Hawaii last week (in Maui and Oahu)
• studying for the GRE (Graduate Record Examination) :: preparing for grad school in other ways (although I'm not too keen on it right now), e.g. doing grad school research, thinking about applications (groan), etc.
• working on growing a small business, related to singing (vaguely ( Read more... )

Yikes, almost a week without updating! I really don't want to fall off the wagon. I was aiming for at least two or three updates a week (as you can see by my calendar on the right). This week was just filled with writing assignments, though, and my improving but still-awful time management skills left me with little free time. I had a one-page ( Read more... )

Wow. I am amazingly incoherent right now, which means only one thing: I haven't written creatively for far too long. *sighs* I seriously need to write some fiction now. Conjure up some metaphors. Clear my mind. (Dreaded clichés, I know. Ugh.) I keep trying to write "quick" comments, but my brain is taking forever to organize my thoughts into clear ( Read more... )

I am an incurable optimist, but honestly, there are moments when I seriously hate myself. Not in a suicidal way, of course, but in that "why do I keep doing the same stupid things over and over again?" type of way. (Well, I know why-sin-but that's not what this entry is about ( Read more... )

How do you get through to-do lists? You hack away at each item, one by one. My problem is always wanting to do everything and everything at once. My sense of priorities is limited to deadlines, and really, deadlines are probably the worst kind of organizing principle. I always end up:

• spending a disproportionate amount of time on assignments due ( Read more... )

Happy New Year, everyone! And happy new decade! (Oh my gosh, can you believe it?) The idea of a new decade pretty much blows my mind; I still remember waiting for the ball to drop and wondering if anything would come of "Y2K." This turn of the decade is the first non-millenium turn of the decade that I remember-it's not the first one I lived ( Read more... )

It's funny that even though I've probably never updated this often in one week-with as many long, substantive posts-I still feel a little bummed that I didn't update every day. Crazy, isn't it? Just a few months ago, the thought of being this committed to blogging again-and to writing in general-was so distant and inaccessible, mired in the ( Read more... )