September 4, 2010

• Misc. update =)

  School has been wiping me out and squeezing thought time out of me.  Consequently, I haven't really had much to say...Just busy.  Fortunately, Labor Day weekend provides a little respite and breathing time. 

  Besides being able to see many of my friends again, there haven't been too many exciting things going on either.  Well, my classes have been fairly interesting also, so I can't really complain.  This is how my schedule looks:

  

  Nowadays I wake up around 7:30 AM, which is somewhat an unearthly hour for college kids.  At least it is slightly cooler in the morns. 

  The large gap MWF is deceiving though; I should be starting research soon, so that will take up large blocks; also, I have one class that doesn't show up on my schedule (thesis), since it is essentially a self-taught/guided class...I don't really know what to do my thesis on yet.  I'm thinking an artsy project, because I'd rather not do it on my research (writing yet another long scientific paper?  No thank you; plus, I feel like less than 1 year worth of research will not be enough to write on...research is a long process, so I really couldn't write a good paper given the time frame.  If I had started research sooner, than maybe a research based thesis would be good...). And plus, I like artsy.

   

  While reading through a friend's tumblr, I realized that she is at times somewhat depressed and has anxiety issues.  I was mildly surprised, but after thinking about it for a while, I remembered her how she was when we first met in 2004--she would half-joke about how her mom referred to the exams she took as "our exam", (imagine the pressure -_-")...and then she also had a bunch of nightmares about things that should have been of relatively low importance.  But she played a lot it off to be funny--the things that bothered her.  We've been long distance friends because we met at a camp that was far away, but we've kept in touch, though much less since college.  It was easy for me to not notice those stress/depression issues because she had so often presented a confident and vivacious front, which I had long admired that about her, and somewhat envied.  I feel bad for not really picking up on it sooner; but at the same time, we have so little interaction due to the distance and being busy.  At the same time, I've written to her without really receiving much of a response other than something along the lines of "i miss you, i owe you a long letter". >_>  With that, I guess it would have been hard for me to remember/take note.  But anyways, I've been working on a package for her!  She recently had surgery of some sort, so it's a care package, not just for me being a crappy friend.

  So far all I have is a jar of stars. Not only does that rhyme, but I also don't know how to make cranes, so stars they must be!  (I guess I could learn, but I also don't have square paper)...

   

   

   

  I also plan on filling a jar with positive notes; because the second year that we attended the same camp, she asked all the girls in our residential group to write her something nice...she filled a Snapple bottle with that to read, if ever sad, but then her mom threw it away...

  

  I'm kind of not sure what else to make; I'm thinking maybe some earrings?  Not really sure what else.  I just feel bad because it's taking me so long to figure it out...Hopefully she doesn't think that me asking for her revised address was an empty question. >_>  I also can't find a box to fit both jars...and I am not excited about shipping glass.

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  Another friend of mine just started pharm school!  She's somewhere in Bradenton, so that isn't too too far away.  I'm working on a package for her too.  I made 2 sets of earrings and a little metal magnet:

  

  I guess one reason I like making personalized stuff is that as a kid I was never able to find my name anywhere in those stores selling the cute little souvenirs with names...plus, it is almost always a win =).  Most people are fairly attached to their own names.

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