Everyone knows college was made for roadtrips. Some of my favorites were visiting my BFSK (best friend since kindergarten) at Purdue every fall. Erica, my WKU friend, always accompanied me on these northbound journeys to see Stacy and her roommate, Judy. Erica and I opted to make our freshman trip a platonic foursome, inviting friends Keith and Owen.
We [...]
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My address book has seen a lot of changes in the past 15 years- new friends, moves and name changes to name but a few. Eraser smudges had cluttered my address book and I decided that it was time for a new one. Transferring addresses from the old book to the new book prompted an [...]
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When freshman year ended, I said goodbye to my first roommate and her inflatable bikini top. Sophomore year introduced a more mature roommate of sorts. She was 23 years old and still pursuing her bachelor’s degree because she couldn’t elevate her GPA enough to student teach (she was an elementary education major.) She was nicer than [...]
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I miss a lot of things about college life – carefree road trips, casual attire, posters puttied to cinder block. One thing I don’t miss about college is having a roommate. The prospect of living within the confines of a 16’x12’-cell with another girl literally sends chills down my back. An even stranger thought is [...]
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While everyone else is crafting New Year’s resolutions, I am refusing to put any pressure on myself. In fact, here are my anti-resolutions:
1. I won’t train for a 5K, a 10K or any-other-K, okay? I will run if chased by a lunatic, and for no other reason.
2. I won’t give up my (caffeine free) carbonated [...]
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I don’t like people. Okay, not all people…just people who repeatedly make poor decisions and refuse to accept any responsibility for the consequences. So why, might you ask, would I have chosen a career in social work, a field laden with these types of individuals? Now that I’m no longer in that field, I frequently [...]
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