December 2010
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I've Seen It Before
I feel like I’m constantly practicing my reception speech,
because there will be a speech.
Despite the lack of pa system, and overhead holiday music,
there will be speeches.
In my family, during times of celebration…
speeches are made.
Speeches about how you never stop learning, growing, etc.
About how everyone just wants to see you succeed, and the best for you.
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I'm Starting to Feel It
It’s Friday, and I’m sooo sleepy bone achingly exhausted.
I stayed up til 5 am coding this morning, and was assured that I will pass. I stayed up til some other ungodly hour the night before working on my finance review. And the night before that I was too nervous to sleep. And the night before that I was up with my brother. I need some serious rest.
And, while I did come back to...
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Thursday Update (Last Semester)
Two classes over and done with, and two more to finish up.
One presentation tomorrow, and one test on Monday.
I’m ready for a good night’s sleep it’s ridiculous.
I have never slept so little during Finals week.
This last semester is serious!
I may just sleep all weekend….
I need to finish my web project, like yesterday.
But the finance final went SO well. I’m...
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Stress
When I’m up against several deadlines all at once (finals week, midterms, etc) I tend to turn to tumblr, facebook, and writing for a reprieve.
And I find the most amazing things.
Well things that seem amazing at the time.
Today, I actually did a lot of work on a project I should have finished weeks ago. But I just held off until now to build suspense, and the fact that I guess I had...
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This Week is Murder
Two Final Presentations.
One is a group presentation that we’re going to put together tomorrow and Wednesday night.
I loved that group, all dudes who were super nice about everything.
The other presentation is about a website I am putting together which involved a lot of heavy lifting. It was supposed to be a group project, but since it was online I didn’t really get a group...
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“I shouldn’t have let you tempt me into talking of the old days. This is...”
– Scarlett O’Hara - Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
“December is the toughest month of the year. Others are July, January, September,...”
– Mark Twain (via hippiecrack)
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Not a Snowflake
Suffice to say that I’m not the first person to miss someone.
Nor am I unique in the way I express it.
But it always makes me feel better when I put the words somewhere.