Friendship in The Time of Letters

Ever since I graduated college, a few friends and I have kept in contact mainly through letters.  Which, I admit, is slightly backwards since we could easily e-mail or call each other…God forbid actually visit each other in person!  But there’s something almost exhilarating whenever I send or receive a letter in the mail.  (Especially [...]

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The Satisfying Feeling

of knowing people are actually SEARCHING (or one person is searching several times) for my blog on the world wide internet gives me warm fuzzies inside.  Thank you to all my reader, old and new, for having some strange love of pointless writing.
With that, I have completed twenty-five pages of very rough book writing.  25 pages!  Some [...]

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Life Update

In order to put the pressure on, I currently have four pages* completed for my first novel.  Whoa, really?! Four pages?!  I’m a pretty big deal.  The goal is to have ten pages minimum by the end of tomorrow.  And from there, I will be 200-some pages from being able to call myself a novelist.  [...]

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Let’s All Get Excited About Lists!

For some reason, it seems 2009 came in without anyone noticing.  Wasn’t it 2009 all last year?  Apparently not.  Unless I’m living in the future, which is highly possible.  So as someone from the future living in the present, here’s a list of things that I will be doing last year:
1. Learn How to Get [...]

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All About Asparagus

I just learned how to properly cook asparagus…Mommy, wow! I’m a big kid now! *dun dun* 
Apparently it is very easy to overcook asparagus, but I dressed mine up for dinner with a bit of foil, and let it sit in a sauna to relax, and then it was ready to eat.  So I fed it [...]

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A Tribute To Jane Austen

Note: this is a brief something I wrote after just finishing Austen’s “Persuasion.”  I’m not sure if it will turn out to be anything, but we’ll see if I expand on it at some point.  Very rough. 
Avery Porter was one of those names that telemarketers were never sure whether they should be asking for a [...]

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Moving Out of Your Parents’ House

Granted I moved out of my parents’ house a few months ago, but today marks the day where I completely stripped my old room from being my old room.  It’s now my parents’ room in my parents’ house. 
All my years of journaling about boys that I wish would have noticed me (or others who I [...]

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Where Humanity and the Blogosphere Meet

Maybe it’s because she called my blog “edgy” or maybe it’s because she has a blog called “Punk Rock HR,” but I’ve been asked ( and am agreeing ) to write my side of the story to an angry post that was written in response to a post I had written titled “Diagnosing Your Co-workers” [...]

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Finding Happiness After College: Hobby-style

I’ve talked to several “right out of college” people about what they think of the real world.  So far, the general consent is:
a) No one tells you how overwhelming everything is out of college.
b) We’ve learned more about life in these last 4 months than we did in a year of college.
c) It’s difficult to [...]

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The Benefits of Talking to Yourself

I recently came across a letter I had written to myself two years ago, outlining my past, present, and future thoughts and goals.  That’s right, to myself.  I have very intriguing conversations with just me talking to…me.  Doesn’t everybody talk to themselves?
Well, they should. 
Self-reflection is probably one of the most useful ways of figuring out [...]

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