God, it's been such a long time since I came on here. Amazing that my account's still up, really.
Haven't been through much/have been through a lot since the last post. A nice dichotomy.
Wriggled through some difficult classes, still have a 4.0, got a top-100 ranking by the university, blah blah blah. I'm in the latter parts of my education now, and it's been really hard to tear myself away, focus on anything else.
I feel bad for, over the last year or so, withdrawing from everyone... but school's something I have to do. Something that I can't do to my full potential if I'm expending energy on relationships and friendships... *sigh*
A sad state of affairs, really, but unfortunately true.
I'm doing good... I really am. A little more concerted effort, and I'll permanently escape the trap of being born into a low-income, low-education, religious fundamentalist family. That much is a comfort-- I think as time goes on I'm reminded that I really don't belong around more than one or two people on a social level; my life's to be given over to academia. In lieu of breeding, hopefully this little branch of the family tree will provide something more useful-- teaching, perhaps-- to the world.
To those of you who might stumble on this sometime, looking to see if I'm still alive: yes, I'm still about. I still think about you guys, I miss you guys, and I miss the fun. Hope you think of me as well. Who knows? I might be free of this scholastic burden in 2009.
Haven't been through much/have been through a lot since the last post. A nice dichotomy.
Wriggled through some difficult classes, still have a 4.0, got a top-100 ranking by the university, blah blah blah. I'm in the latter parts of my education now, and it's been really hard to tear myself away, focus on anything else.
I feel bad for, over the last year or so, withdrawing from everyone... but school's something I have to do. Something that I can't do to my full potential if I'm expending energy on relationships and friendships... *sigh*
A sad state of affairs, really, but unfortunately true.
I'm doing good... I really am. A little more concerted effort, and I'll permanently escape the trap of being born into a low-income, low-education, religious fundamentalist family. That much is a comfort-- I think as time goes on I'm reminded that I really don't belong around more than one or two people on a social level; my life's to be given over to academia. In lieu of breeding, hopefully this little branch of the family tree will provide something more useful-- teaching, perhaps-- to the world.
To those of you who might stumble on this sometime, looking to see if I'm still alive: yes, I'm still about. I still think about you guys, I miss you guys, and I miss the fun. Hope you think of me as well. Who knows? I might be free of this scholastic burden in 2009.