(And also because the two of you who actually read this might be interested in the most eventful things of the past month+. Thanks friend(s)!) My apartment is so cold. I'm pretty sure when winter is over, I'll forget just how cold it was. So I'm writing this to remind myself. It's cold. The heating in my apartment is not awesome, so I bought a tiny little space heater, which heats up the immediate space beside me. I haven't gotten my electricity bill for the month yet, so I've tried really hard to use it sparingly, and in the meantime make use of every blanket that I own. I've been spending a lot of time on my bed...I've also almost seriously considered just sleeping at my office, because I have keys, and who would notice? And there's heat...
At least it snowed today! It's beautiful when it snows. (At least for day 1.)
Other random thoughts that I'd like to remember...
Matthew. I would really like to see him again. He's a homeless man I met outside the Wawa next to my house. In those 2 minutes, I had one of the most sinspiring moments, to meet someone so genuine, to reinspire hope in me, particularly the hope I have in the human race (per recent events like Anonymous, Occupy, etc.).
Also, a reminder of how academia has the potential for borifying things that are better in their originally clever form (so that I can not fall into this unattractive, but somehow common trap). Example: "This is much like a parent persuading a child to swallow a bitter pill by administering it with a sweetener to make it go down more easily." Hello. Pretty sure over a decade ago someone came up with a better way to say this. "A spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down." Maybe that was even your inspiration. Why did you have to ruin it? You could've had a closing statement that left me singing...
How nice it feels to know that I'm doing a great job. With all the feedback from my professors, they have such confidence in me that I'm more than capable of excelling in this arena. Now I just need to find my own motivation...
And then maybe the FHE lesson over Christmas break from my dad, where it took him 30+ minutes to finally get to the point, which was to stutter out, in a broken way, that he loves me. :) (And remind me that sometimes he forgets that I'm not a boy, and that it is actually not so irrational for me to be sensitive.) Progress! Love my family :D
