The official high temperature yesterday was 92 degrees. The date was April 26. While I’m not really complaining, something is a bit off as these are July temperatures I’m talking about.
But it got me in a ’summer state of mind.’ In three days I will be free from all projects, presentations and papers. Grad school [...]
Archive for April, 2009
27 Apr
Summer state of mind
23 Apr
Book Review: Jodi Picoult, Harvesting the Heart
As I mentioned at the end of my last book review, Harvesting the Heart, by Jodi Picoult, was a book that I hadn’t really wanted to read. The only reason I did was because I’ve heard by so many people that they really like Jodi Picoult’s books. I’m really surprised I haven’t picked up something [...]
20 Apr
Faith in the unknown
This past weekend a friend of mine passed away after fighting cancer for nearly two years. While we knew the time was near, her passing is still a shock to the system, and I can’t help but be sad that we lost a beautiful friend and sister in Christ. I haven’t really known Amy all [...]
10 Apr
Book drooling
Have you ever seen something and just had to have it? Couldn’t stop thinking about it? Mesmerized by it?
That was me yesterday when I wasted about two hours of the workday staring at the most beautiful books I’ve ever seen and then tracking them down on the Internet.
See, aren’t they so pretty? After much work, [...]
6 Apr
A new chapter
The past couple weeks have been a time of reflection for me, which is why there hasn’t been much posting on here. Sorry about that, but I needed some time to think and process.
You see, a couple weeks ago we had a career counselor talk to the spring graduates about careers. We got onto the [...]
