It’s actually day four and I have been doing a crappy job completing and blogging about this life turn around project. I promise to do better. That day I think, was a crucial day in the one month to live plan. What I forgot to mention was that Kerry […]
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So the self-help junkie strikes again! I have a new 30-day self-improvement program I plan to follow. Its called One Month to Live: Thirty Days to a No-Regrets Life by Kerry and Chris Shook. I think the title of the book is pretty self-explanatory. So whenever they have little
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A giant slug of a woman, dressed in an unbecoming tan and excrement brown, left a stinking trail of air that wafted behind her A hint of cherry squeezed through her stench I looked up from the safety of my counter The slug, looked into my eyes suggestively her
So I wrote this poem about a year ago, it has some cliche parts, I know. I wrote it when I was emotional. Just sharing early bits of the writing process… Falling From A Bridge If I’d only known you’d never come back to me That lack of any
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I’ve had an awful time negotiating this grown-up world. Even with some direction I still find myself trying to figure out what exactly it is I want. Well I know I want a mansion on the beach and the ability to work when I feel like it. I’ve said
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So the self-help junkie strikes again. I got this book You’re Broke Because You Want To Be by Larry Winget from the library. If I ever want to get back to Miami I have to cut my out of control spending habit. I stumbled upon this book while working
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For grad school, I was considering applying to their fiction programs. Such an application would require like 30 pages of fiction. And considering I’m not that experienced, I thought that maybe applying to a fiction program wouldn’t be such a good idea if I actually wanted to get in.
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I have written short stories before, but I am feeling particularly ambitious and I have started something. Not sure if it will develop into a novel or just a short story, but we shall see. It’s pretty raw– not edited. Have a look. Chapter 1 I’m at rock bottom.
About two weeks ago I created a post on craigslist offering freelancing services to anyone willing to pay a reasonable rate. I finally got a customer! He is a Swede in America working on a medical (neuroscience) grant proposal. That’s not even the tough part. What is stressing me
I am a slow packer, but I suppose that indicates how much I really don’t want to move. I would like to come back in like 3 months, but I am not sure how likely it will be that I will find a good job. What I am finding
