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I was working on organizing things for my project that’s “due” tomorrow when I came across a random website.

I use quotes to describe it as being due because it’s actually a fundraiser that I’ve helped organize for tomorrow night.  This big 100% of my mark project and I think it’ll actually be a good time.

If you happen to live in the Windsor area, please come check it out.  Go here to get more information about it.

But – back to the reason for the post.

Check out this adorable and when I say adorable, I mean ADORABLE link for all lovers of The Steve Miller Band, Fatboy Slim and kittens!

It’s the Devil Ducky!

I was looking through some old notebooks from school and I came across some from when I was a Creative Writing major. I could only smile when I saw some old “on the spot” poems that we were required to write in class. As I flipped through the pages, I found this one act play that I wrote for my class. It was about three people stuck on a subway, all late for something. One of the people was late for a funeral, and as she left the other two, in a huff, she drops the eulogy she was going to read. So it’s there, this made up, written by me eulogy of some non-existent person. And I couldn’t help but smile at the fact that I wrote this doctrine on life. It was a great reminder of why we’re supposed to be living on this earth. I think. I was only nineteen when I wrote it, like I’m so much older now.

If you look at life as though it were a poker game, you would obviously see that not every hand dealt is a full house. Sometimes, in life, we are dealt hands we cannot understand. In times of great sadness, we must look past the pain and see the good.

A—- was a dear friend of mine. She gave her life so that I would be able to live mine. It is the ultimate gift and I give her my thanks by imparting the wisdom she always gave me.

The hardest thing to do in this world is to live in it. We are surrounded by hate, cruelty and betrayal, but if you look closely you will be able to see so much love. Don’t let the love and beauty in this world be overshadowed by insecurities. Everything we do in our past has a domino effect for everything that happens in our future. In life, many mistakes will be made, but it is in these mistakes that we learn to appreciate what will be done to rectify them. The things we do, good or bad, can only be repeated if we let them. You cannot control what fate brings into your life, but you can control what your reactions to them are.

I love it. It may be poorly written (I did only find the rough draft) and not make much sense, but the core point is present: live your life and see the beauty in it. And if there’s anything I felt I learned from my stint as a Creative Writing major, it can be that I learned to express that.

I’ve been living in the library – exam time.

Procrastination post is inevitable. But not right now, because I’m actually working.

I need to stop procrastinating. I need to take a course in stopping procrastinating. I need to find a course in the stopping of procrastinating. I need to do a lot of things.

Like stop procrastinating. I hate writer’s block. Whoever invented it sucks.

It’s the loviest feeling, really. When you’ve spent close to two weeks running around being busy that you don’t even have time to sleep, and then, just like that – it’s done.

The feeling I have right now. Total bliss. Because I finished everything I had to do and I can relax.

For one night. Because tomorrow I work. Saturday I work. And Sunday it’s back to studying for a Mid-Term I have next week. Fabulous.

But for right now, I don’t have to do anything. And it’s most excellent.