Approaching a New Project with Flair

While some people have a flair for the dramatic, I confess that I have a dramatic love of flair. In fact, over the last few months, I have used the Pieces of Flair Facebook Application so much that I have earned over 1000 flair credits and accumulated over 500 pieces of flair. This is a lot- but I didn't stop there! Just a few days ago, I had a brilliant idea to blog about my love affair with flair, and that is exactly what I've started doing! Do you want to see my flair? Do you want to get a daily dose of laughter as I unveil the flair that has so captured my attention? Be sure to sign up for the RSS Feed of my newest blog, MyFlairboard.

"An artist's flair is sometimes worth a scientist's brains."
-Anton Chekhov

Fresh Inspiration

I joked around in my post yesterday about grad school eating my life this past semester, but right now that doesn't feel like much of an exaggeration. The last few months have been incredibly challenging. I have had to take in and organize massive amounts of information in a fully comprehensible manner. I was offered many opportunities to prove my mastery of different new skills and knowledge sets. These opportunities were often stretched me further than I sometimes thought I could be stretched, but I did it and I am incredibly proud of what I have accomplished in the last few months. However, I spent so much time reacting to different challenges that I did not take much time to work on my own personal projects like writing and designing and creating. This off-balance lifestyle left me feeling quite drained by the end of finals week, or as I affectionately termed it "hell week".

It's been about a week now since my last final. I've caught up on my sleep again and I have spent countless hours watching television and coming down from my cognitive adrenaline rush. The last day or so, I've been in the zone. I've written, I've created, I've played, I've cooked, and done so many other things that before felt like it took just too much energy away from studying.

This next semester, I hope, will be different. I have a plan in place to support this vision of a different semester. If all goes well, perhaps I won't have to wait another four or five months before I get a chance to breath like this again. But I suppose only time will tell.

Grad School Ate My Life

Okay, so this past semester, I've done essentially no work on any of my online endeavors. I haven't written any articles, published any lenses or even updated this blog. Of course, school has been more than worth it, but I've missed being on here! Thankfully, though, it's Christmas break and I'm back at it. Today I updated several of my Squidoo lenses and even created a new one on Study Tips to Avoid Cramming at Finals Time. If you couldn't guess, I was inspired by my own academic career.

In other news, I also created a Twitter account. Click here to follow me as I continue on my journey through grad school.

Of course I can't make any promises, but I definitely hope to keep writing next semester, now that I know how to better prepare myself for classes and such. But I guess we'll just have to see how things go. If nothing else, you can follow my twitter and find out why I am or am not creating!