I looked back through my entries recently, and my eyes landed on an elated post from 2008. President-elect Barack Obama ( Read more... )

Happy New Year, everyone! May 2015 be one of good health and abundant flourishing.

Lots of tl;dr below on books I've read this year and just looking back at life in 2014 in general. Come for as brief or as long a visit you'd like, and maybe pick up one or more of my book recs as you head into the new year!

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Ten years ago, I started this journal as a dumping ground for my reading notes. It evolved from there: I'm no longer in school, have gone through cycles of deluge and drought where writing is concerned, and now I use this LJ account primarily as a private journal ( Read more... )

Something compelled me to visit LJ today... so here I am. I've written over the past years in infrequent intervals, but it's pretty accurate to say that this journal is now a place where I post almost 100% private entries. But I'm meeting with paranoidsistah on Sunday and suddenly feel nostalgic about reconnecting with LJ and fandom friends. So, here's a very ( Read more... )

Dear ziasudraI send you greetings from Resty's family. They are doing well and wish to extend their thanks to you for loving and caring for Resty since you picked her up. Thank you very much for the letters and cards you sent to her, the fees, medicine and gifts you sent helped them alot as a family and that you made so special ( Read more... )

I feel like my default life speed nowadays runs on fast forward. Many new things happening and the old things are getting busier and busier. Here are some bullet points:

• Just finished a five-week class called "How to Understand and Analyze Non-Profit Financial Statements" at the NYU School of Continuing Education. Four hours of class on Saturday ( Read more... )

Today marks my 20th year in the U.S. Time flies. I'm not feeling particularly nostalgic though -- life has a tendency of taking your attention away from deeper thoughts when there are other things that must be tended to OMG RITE NAO. So here's a bullet list of random thoughts, not necessarily related to my bi-decade anniversary:

• Neopets also had ( Read more... )

1. House ThingsThings at the new apartment are beginning to settle, and it's finally feeling less like a hotel that I can decorate and more like a place I'm going to start getting used to and maybe even dream about soon (dreaming = the benchmark that something has been incorporated into my routine, like the day I remember dreaming about my current ( Read more... )

Thank you very much for all the wonderful birthday greetings! The warm wishes, ecards, and beautiful birthday graphics brought big smiles onto my face ( Read more... )

It's been a month full of many activities for me. Work can haz eated my brains as usual. On top of that, I've been gradually moving into my new (and very shiny) apartment, corresponded with and interviewed about 10 people until I finally found a subletter to take over my current lease, furnished my new apartment from scratch (i.e., many trips to ( Read more... )