:)

what was... and what is...

WAS...
IS...

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need to take care of that... ahem!

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Tuesday...

It's Tuesday. Again!

I woke up on the wrong side of bed, hit the snooze button a few times...but still kept waking up on the wrong side. I figured I'd just go ahead and start my day and hopefully sleep on the right side tonight.

I think I prefer Wednesdays. You?!

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words to live by...

" I shall pass through this life but once.
If therefore, there be any kindness I can show,
or any good thing I can do to any fellow being,
let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it,
as I shall not pass this way again."
- William Penn

...

"love is not blind - it sees more, not less.
But because it sees more, it is willing to see less."
- rabbi julius gordon

touch the skies

wouldn't it be great if that were true in this case?! Sometimes I do feel like the skies are so close that I could almost touch 'em. Of course those are days that I'm having my Superwoman moments where everything is going so right and I'm ready to conquer the next thing... and then the next!

Can't say i'm feeling much like Superwoman at the moment but I'm sure about to go conquer them books.

Asta lavista babaaay!

Have a great sunday ;)

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5!!!

"This much i know is true...
That God blessed the broken road that led me straight to you..."

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Goodnight!

...?

will you catch me if i fall?

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*yawn*

i'm bored with my hair now. I feel like it's time for something drastic. Perhaps a weird cut, OR some color, OR both. Hmmm!

There's ice outside so i'm stuck at home...not that i'm reaaallly complaining or anything. It's just that i have to get some work done and with the lovely weather it's so easy to just stay in bed all day. BUT i won't. I promise! :$

7.05pm:
i'm quite impressed with myself! *pats self on back*... i realized i was getting nothing done at home and so i put on some warm clothing, cleaned up the ice/snow on my car, and headed straight to school at 20mph. hehe! (Yea, so i'm blogging instead of working...but i've actually put some ish together so far)...plus i had no food at home so Dunkin Donuts was another major incentive to leave home. *smiles sheepishly and runs along*

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L O L

watching it for the first time...

freaking hilarious!!!

can't sleep :((

hellppppp!!!

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goodbye my lover...

there's something very odd about dude's voice but it fits his music so well.

love this song. today's a James Blunt day...listening to albums on repeat. Stepping away from rap music for a couple of days - if i can help it (eeh, it's great study music...even with all the incorrectness and cursing and what not).

i still need to figure out how to post music tracks without using youtube. ideas anyone?

mmm...

so much joy from this little shell!!!

I'm tempted to reach into the box for some more... but joy could easily become a tummy-ache... ahem!

Me love Godiva longtime!

C'est la vie

Life's funny that way...

you think you know - but you have NO idea!

We go through life, learning everyday, picking up new thoughts and habits...we acquire new dreams while we let some of the old go... but we hardly ever notice the very little changes in the day-to-day. It takes a "big" moment - accomplishment or disappointment - most times, to help us notice all the little things that led up to that point in time. For the good moments, we wonder how we got so lucky, what we did right, and how we can make 'em remain that way. For the not-so-great moments, we wonder where we went wrong, how we didn't see the signs (or chose to ignore them), if we can go back and change them, or how we can avoid them going forward.

I try to notice the little things in my day-to-day now...perhaps they'll make me more thankful/appreciative ... perhaps they'll make me more efficient ... perhaps i'll put more thought into my choices when i need to OR be more daring when i need to be ... perhaps, perhaps, perhaps ....

i thought i knew...but apparently, i've got NO clue. Everyday is yet another chance to learn something new, or rediscover the old.

la la la ....

take me away...

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*sigh*

my work isn't working.

Running preliminary simulations to prove my research hypothesis. But it seems it's saying the hypothesis is shit. literally! I'm hoping i'm doing something wrong here.

*sigh*

Okay, getting back to work. Seems it's going to be a long night.

*$(#%^#@*()!

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...and so the week ends/ another begins

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Happy "Love Day"

"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams." - Dr. Seuss

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la la la la...

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TGIF?

Memories: 2000/2001. Freshman year of college. I remember coming back to my dorm room and rocking my air guitar (and mic) to this song. Daily!

Since feeling is first...

I know i said i wasn't going to get sucked into the mushiness of the week...but I can't help it. There's so much lovey-dovey stuff popping up around me. I'll go back to being stone cold next week (or month). Bite me!

Here's one of my favorite poems by ee cummings:

since feeling is first
who pays any attention
to the syntax of things
will never wholly kiss you;

wholly to be a fool
while Spring is in the world

my blood approves,
and kisses are a far better fate
than wisdom
lady i swear by all flowers. Don't cry
--the best gesture of my brain is less than
your eyelids' flutter which says

we are for each other: then
laugh, leaning back in my arms
for life's not a paragraph

And death i think is no parenthesis

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i really want to go to there :o

yes...those are my crusty toes :)

It's been a while since i went to the beach last. I miss it. I miss the sound of the waves....the feeling of the soft sand between my toes...the cool breeze...the happy/vacation-y faces all around. Actually, i miss having outdoor fun (in the sun) in general. Altogether, it's a far cry from how i'm living now... *blank stare*

Anybody know where i can find PipeSim software?... Anybody?!

*crickets*

anybody??




album's on repeat on my ipod!

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SiMulate deez ....

aah, and so the simulation begins. Again! It's about that time where i start running simulations for my research again. It seems like such a simple task in my mind but i get that horrid feeling that once i start, i'll hit a glitch somewhere and the frustration will begin. So, i guess u can say that i'm frustrated from the possibility of being frustrated in the future. hehe! Okay, maybe not - just complaining for the heck of it. The future of my research actually seems promising. The end actually seems near now. Just one more year to go...atta girl!

In other news, it's been above freezing temperature for the last few days - for that, i'm tres grateful! I get to wear fewer layers :) ...but come tomorrow, it's back to snow and ice and gloom and doom.

less procrastinating...more work. Ahem!

xoxo ;)

wait...wait...actually, I just went out and it's 61F. I'm... Like ...Confused!... and happy at the same time. *runs off singing "i feel pretty, oh so pretty...i feel pretty and witty and gaaaay"*

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but...but...

in the theme of "love week" eh?

I was at Barnes & Noble today...and I saw Valentine's Scrabble. Are you freaking kidding me?!? They'll come up with almost anything these days!

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"I wear my heart on my sleeve
like it's the new fashion"
- Lil' Wayne, Don'tgetit

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In the words of Liz Lemon: I want to go to there....

Today, I feel blue :$ ... It feels like the perfect day to sit home watching my collection of Audrey Hepburn movies, eating double chocolate cheesecake with vanilla icecream...OR...drinking the perfect bottle of red wine. Aaah well, moving along....

Hope you're having a happy saturday....

off to rescue a kitten from a tree....

xoxo ;)

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"Life is like a box of chocolates... you never know what you're gon' get!" - Forrest Gump's Mama

Mission Possible!

Soo... for whatever reason, I spent the last few days sleeping. Just sleeping... a lot! I felt like I'd been drugged or something - it was kinda hard to be productive. But i admit, I wasn't trying that hard in the first place. I blamed the sleepiness on the following things: tylenol (don't ask how), too much food, too much stress from the past couple of weeks, the cold weather. Now, I could make an argument for each of those things or all of them combined...but I'll own up and just say I was being LAZY. Not good for business.

So now, I'm at the library (yes, I'm procrastinating a bit by blogging) trying to get some work done. I figure that the trick to getting any work/studying done is to leave my home so I'm not 2 seconds from the bed/couch/fridge. It seemed to work while I was getting ready for my exam so I'll try making it a habit now. Hopefully the snow doesn't get too bad on any given day, giving me an excuse to stay home not doing very much. I want to schedule my Comprehensive exam by the end of this semester, which means I need to get somewhere with my research soooo, I gats to buckle up. Ahem!

Other than that, I discovered a new way to lose weight - stress! Apparently, I lost a lot of weight. Annoyingly, it was whilst eating lots of pizza, mc donalds and vending machine food. I wasn't even trying this time around. I guess the trick is to stay busy and think a lot. Lol! But really, I have a feeling it's all going to pile right back on now that i'm calmer. crappit! The sensible thing to do would be to head to the gym but..but...it's...cold! Well, we'll see... maybe I'll work out at home.

Ok, this post has gotten waaay too long. Getting back to work now.

Have a nice day - whatever's left of it :)

xoxo ;)

One Down!

...yaaaah guessed it! I PASSED MY EXAM!!! Woohoooooo :) It feels so surreal that it's over now...

One down!

Next bridge to cross - Comprehensive Exam...but that's not for another few months!
God is good! I can't honestly say that my passing that exam had anything to do with me. It all just went so smoothly, it was so easy to see the hand of God in it all....His mercies endureth forever!

So, what have i done since then?! I went out for drinks Friday night (sadly, was fast asleep by midnight)...Watched movies all day Saturday - saw Taken and Defiance. If you haven't seen Taken yet, you should. Liam Neeson is soooo kick-ass in it! And now, it's Sunday - went to church, saw more movies at home and did a lot of eating and sleeping and chilling....feels gooood!

Sadly, Sunday's coming to an end already and if i'm going to actually try to graduate within the next year, I better pick up on my work by tomorrow. But...yaaaay, I passed my exam :)) Just wanted to share that with y'all.

Until tomorrow's blog entry.... I'm OUT!

xoxo ;)