Poor Pour

Today I was thirsty and at the store, so I decided to treat myself to something other than water. I bought a tasty looking raspberry lemonade. One of my professor assigned some readings that she had one photocopy of outside her office to read. I decided my special drink would make sitting outside her office for an hour reading lengthy technical articles would make things better. After leaving the store, I took one sip of my drink to know what deliciousness awaited me and to motivate me to walk the 30 minutes to her office to have at least an hour of reading, but more importantly, the rest of my drink.

I arrived outside her office and removed my backpack. Instantly, I knew my special drink had left its container and saturated everything in my backpack. Sure enough, after that one sip, I apparently didn't fasten the lid although I believe the lid was designed poorly and it wasn't my fault. My notebook inside my backpack was soaked. My clothes got a bit wet too. Everything reeked of raspberries. It was very sad and frustrating. Not only that, I still had all the reading to do, thirsty and smelling of the juice I only got one sip of.

Some days are like that. Something you look forward to wrecks everything and destroys your notebook. However, if you are going to smell like something you spilled all over everything, raspberry lemonade isn't that terrible.

trust.

While reading a rather dense book for one of my political science classes, I came across a definition of trust that was thought provoking. According to the late Charles Tilly in his book on democracy, "trust consists of placing valued outcome at risk to others' malfeasance, mistakes, or failures." It got me thinking about who I trust and how I show that to them. Maybe it isn't the best definition you've heard, but after reading for hours through material that was not very interesting, something about this simple statement stood out to me. It is worth considering how you choose who you trust and how to you show them that you do so.

I'm Back. Maybe.

It has been quite some time since I last told the world how my day went. I'm not sure why I ever felt like I needed to do so or who even read my ramblings. For the longest time after my rather abrupt blogger death , I mainly felt relief to not feel like I had to blog everyday. Now, I am thinking it is good for me to write.

That being said, who knows exactly how I will feel tomorrow or the day after that. If we are going to be honest, who even knows if I will be around tomorrow or the day after that. It is a fact of life that you never know when it is going to end or if Danny is going to feel like blogging. It is up to you how to deal with those realities.

Golden

End of an Era

Today I am headed out on a road trip to California with some friends. I believe it will be an amazing adventure and lots of fun activities will be partaken. However, it most likely means I won't be blogging. It most definitely means I will miss a day. Thus the record of continuous days will end, not with a last minute dash to a computer as I always thought, but with a planned miss. I didn't think it would end this way, but I have accepted it. My blog July 21, 2007 - December 11, 2010.

Crazy Ending

Today was a most interesting and entirely hectic end to the first quarter of my senior year at Western. My first final of the week was this morning at 8:00am. I set my alarm last night for 6:25 so I would have time to study a bit more and make it to my final with plenty of time.

I woke up this morning at 8:52am, first confused and then in a panic. It turns out, I had set my alarm for 6:25pm which wasn't very helpful at all in waking up. I ran to my final and was able to hurriedly finish it before the 9:50am deadline. It was 50% of my final grade so I am so very thankful I woke up when I did and was able to make it there.

I took another in class final at 10:30am and felt pretty good about it. I just turned in my take home essay so I am officially done with Fall Quarter. What a crazy ending.

Almost There

Today is my last full day to study. I am close to finishing my essay for my Modern Chinese Politics class, even though I just finished my other essay for that class and this one isn't due until Friday. I also somehow found the time to finish a book I started two days ago in my spare time. I suppose it helped to have something other than finals to work on this week.