sincerely, me

Did you ever write a paper, and the words came to you so naturally, that you were done proving your point in less than the words required? Not to sound boastful, but that happened a lot when I was in school. So, I'd say it again, using different words in a different order, like maybe they didn't get it the first time. I feel, after reading this article , that that was a bad idea. I guess I can't base my reaction entirely on the needless repetition, because I also didn't necessarily agree with the content. But when the author goes on and on, saying the same thing about three times in different and clever ways, he loses his credibility as a reliable source of information. It seems obvious that personal emotions at least partly fueled his writing. It's all right here, the problem with his argument: "It's been so long since someone was actually honest that none of us even knows what that looks like. And if you don't act that way -- a patently false way th...

I've decided my posts are getting kind of sad. At least, for me, they are. So this is going to be a happy post. This is a shout out to all of my friends who read my blog! Thanks for being so nice and awesome. And I think you're all great people. And, yes, this is a test to see who's reading. To my family who reads my blog: Thank you for all the comments, written or spoken. If I do end up writing a book, you'll be in there, too. To people I don't know who read my blog: Do you exist? I see pageviews from Russia and Malaysia (among other places), but do you stop to read anything? If so, that's awesome! Thank you! I've finally picked a color for my room. It should be a pretty green color, like mint ice cream. I did not consider how often I may become hungry in my room from that color... But I'm not changing my mind! It would take too long. I had a pretty great Christmas. I love when family comes to visit. I always think I want to leave this state ...

Whoo! Happy New Year! Now that that's over with, I need to talk about good and decent. I was called decent today (as in "actually a decent person" not "eh, she's decent"). Which is pretty cool. But is it true? Or is it a skewed perception by someone who doesn't know me that well? How easily is that perception changed? How far can I go before I lose that status? Which brings me to mistakes. "I know it's a mistake, but there are certain things in life where you know it's a mistake but you don't really know it's a mistake because the only way to really know it's a mistake is to make the mistake and look back and say 'yep, that was a mistake.' So really, the bigger mistake would be to not make the mistake, because then you'd go your whole life not knowing if something is a mistake or not (Lily Aldrin, How I Met Your Mother)." If I think something is a mistake, that I'll regret it, that it might tarnish me s...