Archive for May, 2008
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
I have been a mother for a little over nine months now. Like other mothers, my baby has meant the world to me, even though she’s kept me up all night from time to time, made all kinds of messes, and driven me half crazy. My baby is a Pembroke Welsh Corgi named Luka, and yesterday, like other parents, I had to take my baby to the doctor—in this case, the Bee Creek Veterinary Hospital. I had taken Luka to visit her grandparents’ place in Glen Rose; my parents live on twenty acres, so Luka had free rein to be a country dog for a week. When we got back to College Station, she seemed fine. A few days later, though, I was brushing her and found something small and dark on her skin. My parents constantly have to fight against ticks on their dogs in Glen Rose, so that’s what I thought it was. Much to my dismay, it was a strange scab-like skin thing; over the next couple of days, the scabs started to spread over her body. Needless to say, I was worried.
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Monday, May 26th, 2008
Today was the day. My first day in a foreign country in which the native language was not mine. Better yet, I am completely unfamiliar with the German language. I keep saying “Danke.” Worse than not knowing the language, I do not know familiar customs, such as tipping, how to order, etc. And to make things better, I am all alone. (more…)
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
Since I returned from LeaderShape, I’ve been missing College Station and the wonderful people there; tonight, I remembered why I love Dallas–and home–so much, too.
My mom called on her way home from work, excited and wondering if I was in for a trip to the art museum downtown. So, she drove home, changed shoes, got back in the car only to drive me back into the city for an evening of artwork and wonderful food at a restaurant, The Porch, that neither one of us had tried before. We people-watched and sat outside while we ate Chilean sea bass….pretty delicious for something that had never ONCE in 19 years crossed my mind or menu before! (more…)
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
I haven’t graduated, but my A&M days are done. Never again will I arrive five minutes late, or on the rare occasion, actually on time to a class in Wehner, Zachary, or Blocker. Wow.
I will be spending the rest of my undergraduate career at the University of Edinburgh through an independent study abroad program. So while I’ll still get my degree from Texas A&M, I don’t feel like an A&M student any longer. It seems like yesterday when I came to college for the very first time, unpacked my luggage and furniture into Lechner Hall, and started a new life—a grown up life. Little did I know how not grown up I was at the time. (more…)
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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
Planning this Full Hearts, Full Hands retreat is one of the more challenging and most rewarding things I’ve ever done. It is giving me the coolest opportunity to talk to people and realize talents I didn’t even know they carried. My next door neighbor in the dorm is a photoshopping wizard–two girls across the hall, who are also in the business school, are great at planning logistics, and second hand connections across campus are proving absolutely invaluable when it comes to gathering feedback on past leadership/service/international experiences. Self-actualization is an understatement of the ways this is using all my past experiences and stretching my current abilities. I love it.
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
So basically, this entire semester has been a funny place. I’ve met funny people, had some funny relationships, experienced funny emotions, and made some funny mistakes. The word “funny” in this context isn’t the laughing out loud sort, it is borderline awkward, a tad bit uncomfortable, and all around just doesn’t sit still. I remember the growing pains of yesteryear. I grew FOUR inches in one year; it became a daily ritual for my parents to literally pull my arms and legs away from my body to give the compounding a rest. Even though I have popped up an inch since starting college (I’ll gladly take one inch in four years instead of four inches in one!) the physical growing pains have yielded to the mental/emotional/psychological ones.
I think they call this “maturing.” (more…)
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
There’s something completely invigorating about not knowing what tomorrow may hold.
People keep asking my summer plans, and while there are certainly options available, it’s so freeing to just. not. know. and continue taking life one step at a time.
On the one hand, I have 9 hours–would be only 6 if I didn’t willfully and knowingly skip a Management 211 test–to finish before I can enter upper level business. So, that could be practical, and there are several different ways I could get that done, whether it be online, in a classroom in Dallas or in a classroom in some other random, Texas community college where I could be a student by day and tourist by night. All of these have their appeal, yet for some reason I just want to back away from academia for a little while and get some organic perspectives–not all this canned, quick, textbook nonsense. (more…)
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