Gaining Perspective

A friend of a friend of a friend (take a moment to construct the mental flow chart) killed himself last night.

I need to get a grip and gain some perspective.

I complain about school all the time (I understand the value of it, but it is one of the hardest and most emotionally challenging things I've ever gone through), and that young man decided that his life was so bad that not living was the best option.

I'm keeping this post short, shutting off the TV, and praying for that kid and his family.

Sad.

Obama08...and 09, 10, 11, and 12

Yes we can?

YES WE DID!


so exciting.

Things That Make Me Happy

A brief list of things I love today:

• My new knee cap stabilizer strap. Oh, goodness it feels great.

• Election fever. It's so exciting! If only people were this excited about our government in non-election years.
• The library. Anyone can go, stay as long as they want (pretty much), and learn anything they want from a collection of the world's knowledge.
• Saved By the Bell reruns. I just love them.
• Apple cider. It's tangy, sweet, and freaking delicious. I'm drinking the last glass of the gallon. Yikes!
• $2 Tuesdays at Kilroy's. You can buy a cheeseburger (and such a delicious one) with a side of chips for $2. Pair that with the giant beer pitcher of water they give you, and you've got a meal for two for less that a value meal at McDonald's, and WAY yummier!
• Fall leaves. Rachael and I walked all around campus and downtown (quite a long walk) for a couple of hours today and took pictures of all the gorgeous leaves. We should have done that a week or so ago, but the colors are still beautiful.
• Intervention. It's a heart-wrenching TV show that makes me cry nearly every time, but to see the addicts so happy and finally clean makes my heart fill up to the point that I feel like I could burst.
• Sexy joggers. Anyone who knows me well knows that I go for the beefier sort of men; a little chub is just hot. But when I see a trim man with broad shoulders and flexing muscles glisten in the sun as he jogs by me...oh, yes...I do stare...yum.
• Kids. I just love 'em--all of them. They rock.
• Chase, Chanler, Chalsie, Anthony, Lucy, and Phoebe. Those baseball playing, Cub Scouting, imagination using, chubby cheeked, red haired, womb living little ones are the GREATEST kids in the universe.
• Giant sweatshirts. They just feel like a hug. Since I live alone, it's the only hug I regularly get, haha.
• My Aunt Laura. She and I have always been very close, and she's a second mom to me. She's amazing.
• My cousin, the rep...repub...oh, I just can't bring myself to say it (heehee)...voting for Barack Obama!
  
• Teaching. I've always loved to teach kids, and I'm really enjoying teaching adults. I must say that teaching kids is easier and more fun, but teaching adults is making me really think about how to communicate (I had a very serious conversation with a woman who knows perhaps 15 words of English), how to connect with people on a level other than words, and how to gain confidence in myself and help other find it in themselves, too.
• Halloween. I like to wear my tutu around the house all the time anyway, so it was nice to be able to wear it in public without people thinking I'm strange. yes, I do fake ballet around my apartment. it's quite a spectacle.

That's it for now. I failed my Stats midterm, so I needed to focus on the positives around me.

Is it next semester yet?



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