I've been reading ravenously lately.  Right now I'm in the middle of 5 books:

• The Cloister Walk
• Tranquility
• Livability
• -Isms and -Ologies
• Captivating

These titles of course exclude what I'm reading for my grad courses.  Those are going really well, actually.  I'm doing extremely well in both classes - straight A's. 

Life outside of school could become less confusing at any time, really.  I feel like I've been hung on a clothesline to dry, but I've been forgotten.  The clothesline keeps moving, and other clothes are being removed, but I remain stuck there, watching everything happen.  I suppose I got myself here, but it's still frustrating.

I've been so tired lately.  Curse you, Anemia!

Speaking of tired, I'm going to bed.

• getting married.
• becoming a step-mom.
• moving into a new place.
• starting graduate school for social work.
• a whole new life
  

after basically being called an over-eager, left-wing-bleeding-heart bitch by my own grandfather, i am dropping conversations about politics altogether.  i'm just done with it.  i still believe what i believe, but i'm leaving it alone.

i still cling to the quote, "we may have a new president, but we still have the same King."

life really really sucks right now.  i only see my fiancee once a week because our schedules do not mesh at all.  my sister is sick - and not in an over-the-counter-medicine kind of way.  my dad is unemployed.  i have seasonal affective disorder, and here comes winter, with all its depressing cold and its dark days....

sorry to depress.  it's just difficult to find beige-colored good in a world of off-white bad.