Hurricane Sandy

A problem about going to school in the East Coast are the random hurricanes that we get over here. Last year, we had Hurricane Irene the week before school opened and my school had to push our whole academic calendar a week.

I was a student advisor, so I was fortunate to already be on campus before the hurricane hit. If I flew out to campus all the way from Chicago, I would have been sleeping in the airport. That would have been a trip to remember, huh?

The freshmen, however, were not so lucky. If they were not an international student or lived very far away (as in more than 2 hours) they were sent back home.

This year, I now have to deal with Hurricane Sandy. Hopefully, it's not as serious, but my school has canceled classes for the next two days.

I don't know about you, but I am definitely going to try to do some work before Wednesday class (note keyword: try).

What about you? What are you going to do during lockdown from the hurricane?

Email Overdrive

Lately, my email inbox has been getting the best of me. It's as if it created a life of it's own and has been multiplying ever since.

I currently have over 200 unread emails and I have no idea what they're about! I knew it was bad, but I didn't know how out of control I was with my inbox until I was told that there was an event on campus about post-graduation campus. Needless to say, I missed it because I didn't see the email and, therefore, never RSVPed for it.

Anybody that knows me can tell you that I love all things related to organization. I am obsessed about that and love to read blogs on how someone was able to organize their homes.

So my goal for today is to go through all of my unread emails and delete things that I no longer have any use for. I'm for keeping things in case I need it in the future, but I'm pretty sure that I don't need three different reminders that Charlotte Russe is having a sale or a coupon for something that I never even heard of. Don't you agree?

...Ahh, I need coffee.

Reminiscing on Hobbies

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Do you know what I miss? Writing.

When I was in high school I wrote a ton of stories based on my favorite shows. If you ask anyone, I am a hard core anime and fan fiction lover. Writing about them just make it so interesting to see how you could make fictional characters become so human. It's amazing what people can come up with when it comes to fanfiction, too.

I love being in college, don't get me wrong, but, sometimes, you don't have enough time in the world to do the things you want to do when you have to study for an exam and write that 10-page paper you put off until the last minute (on a side note: is it just me or does it seem like the work never ends?!) But papers, exams, and presentations are just the tip of the ice-berg of what usually takes up a college student's time. You also have to take into account of club activities and on or off-campus jobs. 

But writing is not the only thing that I miss. I also miss the time that I had in high school to read for fun. Having to read articles and textbooks for class, I feel like there is just not enough time in the world to read that new york times bestsellers novel because you have to read 100 pages by the next day. Not to mention that I am a Psych major with a History minor, so all of my classes are reading intensive. It's interesting work, but sometimes I just want to read about someone being able to throw fireballs from their hands and saving the world in the end. Is that so wrong?!

Either way, my goal is to try to get back to my writing and reading. I loved it when I would get lost in my fictional world and just pretend that I was an awesome, kick-ass, superhero.