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doing things that scare me
05.25.10 | Permalink | 1 Comment

This summer I am trying to do things that scare me, so that they won’t scare me anymore. Lately my biggest fear has been writing. While I think I am an ok writer, some of my professors don’t agree and frankly, that has really shaken my confidence. So much so that I barely write on [...]
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i’m still alive
03.24.10 | Permalink | Comment?

So ashamed to have written more than one of these “I’m still alive” posts. But, yeah I’m still alive. I’ve barely seen anyone in months, except for my classmates and occasionally my family. So what have I been up to? * painted my room – tried once with Stacey and it was an utter failure [...]
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growing a pair
09.04.09 | Permalink | Comment?

Yesterday I did something I’ve been afraid to do all summer – ride my bike on the streets. Yesterday I rode my bike from house to my best friends house and then to the beach. As you can see by my expert paint skills, the ride took forever. An hour of being scared out of [...]
PhD
back to school for me
03.21.09 | Permalink | Comment?

I just realized I never blogged about that fact that I’m headed back to school in the fall. Right back to Columbia to get my PhD is social policy and policy analysis. I thought I had a dissertation idea (well I do) but when I went to the open house and began talking with my [...]
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untouchable day
10.04.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

I’ve decided, after a year of running myself ragged, that I need an untouchable day. That’s about as far as it’s gotten. All I know is that it is untouchable from work. I need this because my job is slowly but surely draining the life out of me and I just can’t take it anymore. [...]
relationships
apparently i’m a conservative dater
09.24.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

So the other day i went to lunch with a new coworker just to have “black girl” chat – you know how that goes when you’re the only two black girls here. Anyway it was normal stuff, you know office gossip and the like and then we started talking about her marriage. She met her [...]