Real, Not Ideal

If you are in university, you will understand this completely. If not, maybe this will help you when things get insane. This is a stressful time for university goers. We are running head on into the last month of the entire school year. For me, this means I have all five essays for all five classes due in March. Two are due next week. Which means procrastination is efficient, sleep amounts are low, and caffeine levels are high. It happens. At a time like this, we need to increase our productivity, so I decided to write a list of the things I think would help with this universal issue. Don’t get down on yourself, procrastination is inevitable. Here we go: 1.        MAKE YOUR BED No, seriously. At the end of the day, the only thing I want to do is crawl into bed. When my bed is unmade, I get way too comfortable and I usually end up napping. I have less desire to crawl into bed when I see that it is nicely done up. It forces me to sit up and it makes ...

So this is a blog. I’ll be honest, I’m not sure what to expect out of this. My ultimate hope is that one person in this Internet world can relate to me, and not feel so alone. This is something that I struggle with, so I get it. I’m not going to make promises about weekly posts, and I have no clue what type of blog this is going to be. Rants? Lists? Poems? Who knows? Let’s just do this together. I think it would be really cool if we played 20 questions but a) I don’t know who you are at all and b) maybe when I press submit I’m sending this into a black hole. So I’m going to tell you 20 truths about me instead. I want you to be able to relate to me in some way. So the first 10 will be general facts, and the last 10 will be a little more personal. This is not about pity, or finding support. This is about reaching out in hopes of touching someone that feels alone. That is what I want. You don’t like it? Go away. Here we go: 1.      I am really close with my family. ...