I’ve been quite neglectful of my blog. The site hardly even looks the same. I didn’t expect my move to go like this. Two months ago, I was freaking out because I didn’t think I’d have the cash to reach my (new) goal: End of March. Now the cash […]
Life Update: Moving in One Week Read More »
The Plan Long time, no updates, I know. Here is the theoretical plan. Start grad school in May. Live on campus. Use student loans to pay for everything, mostly. Work during the day, go to school at night. By the time March gets here, I will have enough $$$
Life Updates: Plotting My Escape from NC Read More »
So, I’ve been moseying around with job search/grad school/blogging/life. And, it certainly hasn’t paid off, in my pocket or general life satisfaction. However, I have some big news. I decided what I want to do with my life. But before I tell you what specifically it is, I would like to
Updates: “One Month to Live” Review and Career Read More »
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
Choosing a Writing Specialty is Hard Read More »
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.
Just Start Writing: A Short Story Read More »
