As soon as I got the schedule for this semester I couldn’t wait for class to start. Topics in Nonwestern Art History (my third and final round of Art History…meh…) and—dah-dahdah-DAAAAAH—3D Computer Animation Motion Studies. It was proof that I had finally finished all the required “foundation” courses and could…
The scene in the picture above greeted me as I finally stepped off the plane. After 36 hours of traveling (32 of them in the air) my kidneys were bursting since I’m terrified to use the bathroom on an airplane. But I still whipped out my phone and snapped that…
What was I thinking? In 2 days my job will take me to Kenya. But since I’m also a full-time online student, I’ve spent the last three weeks trying to get 6-weeks worth of school work done. Not only did I have school to worry about, but at my job…
Periods?! Yuck! We don’t like to talk about that. We’d rather talk about anything but that. Yet across America girls of all ages started school this month, and many of those girls will also start something else—something even less exciting than geometry class. I don’t remember when I got my…
Last week I had to get an experimental yellow fever shot with my boss. Thankfully, of the two of us, I was the only one who had a reaction. Within 10 minutes of getting the dose my eyes started to lose track of my head. The room began to spin…
“Well worth the wait.” Most conversations around the theater were based on that comment. After seeing the movie on Friday, I agree…mostly. Without spoilers, I’ll try to share my frustrations and the moment I fell in love with the film. The first half of Incredibles 2 mirrors the plot of…
Do I have to give up driving now? At 1 year old my dad placed me on his lap and introduced me to motorized vehicles. It was a simple tractor. It went forward when you pulled a lever, and backward when you pulled the other. I didn’t go very far…
I’ve officially attended 5 high school graduation ceremonies (that I can remember): 3 because I was in orchestra and we had to play Pomp and Circumstance in an eternal loop, 1 that was my own, and just recently went to 1 to support a friend. Joy was contagious as the…
Maybe it’s because I’m a writer, but I often get carried away in dreams and “could have been”s and sometimes I mistake my made-up stories for how things actually are. On Thursday it happened again. It’s not the kind of update I expected to see on Facebook—ever. For one, because…
I try not to live my life based on 4am thoughts. But sometimes that’s when my mind is the clearest. In my dreams I lose Joel. In my dreams we drift apart. In my dreams I see my perception of reality taken to the extreme. I see my fears clearly—…
