My final semester of grad school has finally arrived. I’ve honestly been waiting for this day since I started the program (is that bad?), and now we’re in the homestretch. I’m working on my final portfolio. This is due a month before graduation and includes about 30 pages of papers. I’ve barely started and feel…
life lately
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The year of exhaustion
2016 was a crazy year. I planned to kick off 2017 with a peppy post about our chaotic-as-always holidays, but then my grandfather died. We came home on a Sunday, and I was back on a plane to Pennsylvania on Friday, delayed by a blizzard that thankfully didn’t materialize on our side of the Front…
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That time I disappeared for a month…
Grad school. You take one class at a time and work part-time but never manage to have any free time. I’m blogging from my brand-new computer. I capitalized on a sale at Staples with their very nice trade-in program and bought a $900 for $450 before tax and warranty. I’m done with my practicum hours!…
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A much-needed long weekend
Considering fall semester just started, I’m already in need of a break. First, we had the hail storm. Activity in my office ramped up with move-in two weeks later and hasn’t stopped. Then we went to Nashville for my brother-in-law’s wedding. This jaunt to Nashville and our upcoming trip to Virginia are our vacations for…
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The hail storm
Back on the night of July 28, a ferocious thunderstorm rolled across Colorado Springs and produced ping-pong to tennis-ball sized hail around the northern and eastern sections of town. Our neighborhood was hit pretty hard, and most of the houses sustained roof, window, and other structural damage. We were very fortunate in that we only…
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Remember when I used to blog?
It’s August. Le sigh. Move-in is in two short weeks. What happened to summer? I’m slowly working my way through my Bloglovin feed because I am constantly weeks behind. I have two blog reading methods: one is to sort the blogs by date (oldest to newest) and read for a good while. The other is…