This was in The Atlantic today about college students and the abounding debt they are taking on. I just found it to be a very surprising quote.

One reason why more students are borrowing is that few parents pay all or even most of college costs, a trend underway well before the recession. Last year, a typical family with college-age children spent ( Read more... )

"For her, every day was the same, and when each day is the same as the next, it's because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises."
- The Alchemist

How great is that?

Off to work!

So I'm reading Have A Little Faith by Mitch Albom, and there was a fantastic little poem in there by Robert Browning Hamilton that I found really great. It goes ( Read more... )

HAPPY NEW YEAR!! 2011 ( Read more... )

So brunch and the date with Danny did happen (see last week's journal). Things actually went really well. I got to Revere (Reveyah) around 3 and Danny was putting together some furniture thing from Wal-Mart. So we talked and listened to Christmas music while he put the thing together. We actually had good conversation and it was good getting to ( Read more... )

Can't believe it's already December 5th!! Where has the year gone?? I'll probably post a more sentimental, wow-the-year-is-over post later. But for now I wanted to write about recent events ( Read more... )

This has been yet another whirlwind month--I can't believe we're already in early November. Both Dad and Manda's birthdays have passed, though I'm going home tomorrow to celebrate Dad's and hopefully I'm seeing Manda on the 14th to celebrate both of ours. So good things.

Work has been intense lately. There's been A LOT going on and I've certainly ( Read more... )

It's really hard to interpret my emotions lately. I feel like one minute I'm really happy and loving life and the next I'm feeling down. I think what it boils down to is that I'm sensitive--particularly when it comes to dating/relationship stuff. And it's interesting b/c I didn't realize how sensitive I was. I think of myself as pretty strong, but ( Read more... )

Updates after just about 2 weeks ( Read more... )

Is part of growing up appreciating life as a bittersweet experience ( Read more... )