by ::::kbs | Dec 27, 2010 | Reflections
Sometimes I stay up late – really late. I’m so tired my eyes water but I force myself to stay up, distracting myself with nonsense. It hurts, and I hate it, but it’s a hard habit to break. When I get squirrelly in the evening, I know it’s going to be one of those...
by ::::kbs | Dec 22, 2010 | Reflections
Unlike a lot of people here in the U.S., I don’t get very stressed about Christmas. For one thing, if you come from a very small family most of whom are dead, then you don’t really feel the familial pressure of gift giving, cards, parties, traveling, etc. For another,...
by ::::kbs | Dec 13, 2010 | Reflections
It’s not that my (small, scattered) family has financially and emotionally helped support me through this very challenging year that surprises me; no, what floors me is that they want to. Historically I’ve thought of myself as The Caretaker, a role that became very...
by ::::kbs | Dec 1, 2010 | Reflections
Yesterday I had a major paper to work on as a final project for my grad school end of term, and I could not pull myself together to work on it. It is due this week, and is a fairly involved project, so I did not actually have the time to waste. But I did anyway. Days...
