The phrase, “You’re one smart cookie”, is thought to have originated in the late 1300′s with the verb “to cook” in Cambridge,then continued to evolve later in the 1700′s,when women were often referred to as “cookies” in Great Britain (seeing as they did all household cooking and housework). Calling a woman a “smart cookie” in that time entailed that … Continue reading »
Prom Nazi With a Capital P
It is a universally acknowledged fact that prom, in essence, is the cover photo of your entire high school career. Aside from graduation, it is the single event that provides a snapshot of your experience as a whole of high school. Pictures and stories you tell for the rest of your life will involve people in your … Continue reading »
Seven Deadly Fears
1. Slow Death By Papercut A kindergardener would probably call me a weenie, my mother calls me a drama queen, a scholar would probably label me a severe hypochondriac. Whichever way it is put, no matter who is asked, the fact of the matter is that I am terribly afraid of blood, veins, needles, and … Continue reading »
Post-Its, Highlighters, and All-Nighters
If I could change one thing, it would be the length of a day. Twenty-four hours hours simply isn’t enough. I find myself constantly cutting tasks short to move on to the next. A typical day starts at 5:30 am. Bible study, gym, shower, school, tutoring, work, homework. Not even mentioning sporadic events that never … Continue reading »
Disturbing Dreams
I feel like if my dreams were to be analyzed by professionals, I would be automatically institutioinalized. This is a log of the most noteworthy, titled and all. 1. Zapped When I was probably around eight, I dreamt that we were in our old house and my sister was still a little baby. my grandmother … Continue reading »
Protected: Work Should Not Be Work
Songs That Make Up Me
Life is often defined as the experiences, people, and environment that make you, you. I would like to add a category to that list: music. Music reaches to parts of our soul nothing else can reach. It aptly expresses emotions that words cannot even begin to describe. There are a handful of songs that have … Continue reading »
Go Back to Driver’s Ed, Folks.
As you know, I live in Whoville. (If you do not know, click here). Of all the things that annoy me about Whoville (ie seeing everyone you know at Wal-Mart, making it impossible to run in incognito and be out in 5 minutes, and the only exciting (well, not boring) thing to do is hang … Continue reading »
I am a night owl by definition. I do my best thinking at night. Some of my best papers, posts, and ideas (well, craziest ideas) were thought of past midnight. This being said, I would have been the last person to think getting up at 5:30 AM would ever be productive, let alone feasible. And … Continue reading »
Ashamed….
So, at work we have to listen to serius radio, company policy. We usually keep it on the pop hits station. Except for when I work with the one other employee with an appreciation for old music. I prefer to keep it on the 40′s channel, but we usually keep it on the 50′s or … Continue reading »
