in memory

Well, I'm in PA...again. My little "cousin" took her own life last week. I found out Thursday night and changed my original flight (I was just coming home for this weekend) to the next morning in hopes of making it back in time for the viewing. However, I had a canceled flight in Chicago and didn't make it back on time. I was really upset. So, here I am in Pennsylvania. I'm kinda confused. Everything feels so surreal. I hadn't seen the girl for a couple of years and I have yet to see her immediate family. So, it hasn't really sunk in yet. I spent the weekend at my cousins' home. (My cousin Rachel was practically a mother to Shaunte and her siblings). I'll hopefully get to visit the family on Sunday.

thesis update

I'm in the process of contacting the UNIFEM office in Ecuador and seeing are will to allow me to work with them on a communications project. I'm not sure when I'll end up going down. It looks like I have a job back in PA from June 15 to July 24...so that leaves either May or August to go

happenings in my life.

1) I admit it. I've had trouble focusing on schoolwork. It's been pretty terrible. I think the most amount of schoolwork I have done has been during those 40 minute cardio sessions on the treadmill where I read my textbooks. Other than that, I'm always finding other ways of occupying my time. I'm not sure my mind is really ready to handle graduate school right now. It's too scatter-brained.

2) I started guitar lessons (finally). While, it doesn't come easily to me (just like every other musical instrument), I really like it. I learned more in 45 minutes on Thursday than I did the entire semester I took the private guitar class at Messiah (OK, so I'm still not over the fact that the professor accused me of lying to him about practicing. I warned him upfront about my musical inabilities and my lack of rhythm).

3) I went to the Draper Temple Open House this afternoon with my friends Heather and Renae. It was really cool to get to inside of the temple. (who knows how long it will be until I get to enter another place in the temple beside the baptismal font). They're such gorgeous buildings.

super bowl sunday

Super Bowl Sunday is baaaad. Apparently I gained 4 pounds in one weekend.... Ridiculous.


But the Steelers won and I had lots of fun with my friends.



Santonia Holmes' winning catch