Year: 2008

  • Can I Ever Catch Up?

    There’s this long list of things to do and with each passing day, it gets longer and harder to accomplish.  I just cannot manage to catch up on my life.  School and work and home – it’s all just piling up.  The more I cannot get done, the more I feel guilty and stressed.  And…

  • Test of Conviction

    My father called me tonight while I was reviewing my Ethical Lawyering reading.  He said he missed me.  As sappy and dorky as my dad is, I love him.  He’s my best friend. He also let me know something to give me time to “get used to the idea.”  Granted, he told me about the…

  • Quarter-Century: The Obligatory Post

    It’s been 25 years of life for me (well almost or already, depending on how you count the days and hours), and I will admit that I did not expect most of what has happened.  But you really anticipate what’s going to happen; you just have to go with what’s given to you.  And maybe…

  • Adventure? Excitement? A Jedi Craves Not These Things

    Apparently, I’ve been missing something in my life.  Like all the references of Star Wars in popular culture.   What?  I’ve been busy.  (If you ever want to shock people, just tell them you’ve never seen Star Wars. Then see what happens when you say you haven’t seen the first three Indiana Jones movies before seeing…

  • The Red Line

    Los Angeles is not known for its subway.  People who have lived here for years don’t even realize there is a subway.  Admittedly, it’s not very convenient – doesn’t reach most of the spread-out city.  But it’s there, and I take it. One of the perks of taking the subway is the opportunity to watch…

  • coffeeshop conversations

    She noticed his hesitation.  Usually, he would confidently stride to the empty seat in front of her, plop down and begin talking about whatever topic tapped his interest that day.  Today, he hesitated – some internal debate holding him back.  After a quick plan of action decided upon, he sat down. “So, you made your…

  • Home?

    Searching for a new place to live and to call home for an extended period of time is tiring.  But I’m excited … and apprehensive.  This new place will require committment – something that I did not really have to deal with at any point in my life. Growing up an Army brat, I never…

  • She’s Afraid

    She knows it’s a mistake, the direction she’s facing.  She may not know exactly what will happen, but she knows it’s a dead-end. She lies to herself. She hears the warnings, sees the signs.  But she’s fighting against them, against herself – the perpetual struggle between emotion and rationale (and she questions why the two always…

  • Not the Angel I’m Looking For

    The summer’s getting away from me.  I had so many plans – conjured in the midst of the final days of my first year – that have been added to the cache of things-to-do-but-probably-won’t-get-done.  The screenplay may be put on the back burner for now. I blame two things; one of them being jury duty. …

  • Protected: strange you never knew

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