“You have to wake me up!!” “But it’s at 3am! There’s no point waking you up!” “But I want to see it!! You have to wake me up okay?!” I was excited. I had never seen a lunar (or was it solar? hmm…) eclipse before. I was determined not to miss out on the rare event, [...]
Continue Reading...I’ve always wondered why it is that we can have such varying amounts of patience with different people. With the people we like, it seems like the patience is never ending. With people we don’t, it seems as if every word, every expression, every movement they make is indescribably irritating. The most amazing aspect of all [...]
Continue Reading...We were best friends. At times, even more than that. Things were slowly going downhill, and we weren’t acknowledging it. Or I wasn’t. You asked me if I thought we would still be talking in a few years. My response was automatic. ‘Of course. Why wouldn’t we be?’ I didn’t think much of it for [...]
Continue Reading...I am currently sitting in Doe, trying to read Computer Science lecture notes, but am getting distracted by the window in front of me. When I was little, I didn’t think that clouds moved. I always thought they stayed in one place, and that I had moved every time I looked up at the sky [...]
Continue Reading...Nothing has no influence. As stated so blatantly eloquent by John Donne, no man is an island. We are the people around us. They shape and mold us, change us, move us. One single look – glance, word, expression – can alter our whole perception, our attitude, our selves. Subconsciously, everything affects us. Most of the time, the [...]
Continue Reading...I don’t know why I did it. Part of it was for you, most of it was for me. The feel of the yarn sliding through my fingers; the soft click clack of the needles. The sound of knitting has always been therapeutic, and I could feel its magic easing my stress. I had never worked [...]
Continue Reading...I was out of socks. This meant that it was time for me to do laundry, so I gathered up all my clothes and walked to the laundromat a block away. While my laundry was in the washer, some random guy asked me if I had any extra detergent. I couldn’t say no. He was [...]
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