Day 312 | Thursday, November 5 | 2009

Alden...

Today has been so busy. Endless homework and tests. I feel good about the Anthropology test I just took so at least that is looking up.

Not too much time to write -- gotta go get some more work done. Here is a picture just right outside the library.

Day 203 | Tuesday, July 21 | 2009

Union Township Public Library...

Things are starting to turn around.  This might be the moment.  I am feeling a little better about the prospects of this test.  I am flying through the material but making a couple errors still.  I just need to get back to fundamentals and smooth things out from there.

Back in West Chester.  Driving around, it is uneasy to see how much of this place has changed.  In no way am I saying that I miss living here, but it is hard to see some things go.  McGinnis Park, the place that my soccer teams had games and the place of many memories has totally disappeared.  Now, shopping strips and a hospital stand where the park used to be.

Day 69 | Monday, March 9 | 2009

East Wing...

Again. Another library photograph :)

What to say about today? The sky was so fresh and clear. I love the days like today -- the ones that it takes the endurance of all of Winter in order to experience it. I could feel the cold of the ice and snow of recent memory yet I could sort of anticipate the warm and soft sun of the days of the near future.

Life as I know it is changing. Two weeks from tomorrow I will board a plane to Ecuador for the spring. This is, I believe, going to be one of the most exciting and enjoyable experiences of my life. With it, too, comes the terror of a new land, the distance from the ones I love (and that love me), and still the inevitable pangs of life. I am hopeful for this trip, for the future, and for a lot of things.

I am going to get to work now. I have about five or six papers that I need to finish in the next week plus 2 exams.

Day 68 | Sunday, March 8 | 2009

Descent...

I feel like it is going to be near impossible to get this transition from being in Athens to studying in Ecuador right on. I have so many things to do I don't know how I will pull it off.

Too bad I am so busy that I won't be able to write what I really want to write about. There are a lot of things right now that are on my mind that I hope to write about in the next few days.

Yet another library shot :)

Day 61 | Sunday, March 1 | 2009

Spines...

My blog must be somewhat of a bore from time to time. I mean, the majority of the photos I post are things that are generally found in or in close proximity to the library. What does that say about me as a person other than the fact that my excitement envelopes the things that are library-inclusive.

I just got done with a group meeting for spanish class and lord am I glad that's over. Some people can just be plain rude. It's not worth getting into so I'll spare you the details.

I am going to have to barrel through tonight.

Day 58 | Thursday, February 26 | 2009

Through the Looking Glass...

It's been a pretty good day.  My Documentary Genres class went well -- we watched a film about the Vietnam War called The World of Charlie Company.  Great film.  It's particularly interesting to see the composition of the origin and later development of mutiny amid the soldiers in the movie.

This weekend could turn out to be a perfect storm in terms of work load.  I have a 6-8 page paper in Personal Values in Media to do, a 6-8 page paper in Spanish American Civilization and Culture to do, and an additional 2 page paper in Spanish to do also!  On top of all that I have committed to perform on Saturday and I also have to perform for University Band on Sunday too.  What a headache!

Oh well...good thing is that none of this stress matters.  I still have people in my life that are so important to me.  For example, ... take a good look at these lovely ladies (pictured above).  I took this photo of them while I was walking around the Café Biblio-tech on the library's second floor.  I like how Caitlin's earnest face seems to say This is me; this is how I truly am and, at the same time, Leslie's face hints at a voice that would seem to say Hee hee; I'm up to no good!

Speaking of important people, .. my brother Dustin finished his New York Bar Exam yesterday.  I am so very proud of him.  He has worked so hard for the past 3 or so years and I am hugely impressed by his accomplishments.  I wish I could be in New York to congratulate him on a job well done, regardless of if he passed the Bar or not.

Well...I am tired and I think it's time to go to bed.

Day 56 | Tuesday, February 24 | 2009

Diccionarios...

Boring day of studying.  A laundry list of things/projects/papers to develop.

It is beautiful outside but here I am holed up in the library.