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Sleep Hates Me!
Ahh…yes. Yuka is in stats class yet again, avoiding paying attention because she procrastinated writing this blog post last night in order to possibly get thirty more minutes of sleep. Ironically, I got no sleep last night. And I mean none. I shut my eyes and just laid there for hours, hoping I would eventually fall…
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A Lizard and Its Heat Lamp
I’ve been working nights since I was 18 years old. It’s been 8 years of consistently working night shifts, either with the elderly or in a hospital. My current client tells me every time I walk in how grateful she is to have me there and how much she hates being alone at night. In…
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I Call Them Towers
I have these moments in my life that I like to call “towers.” They are significant memories or ideas that seem to shake every preconceived notion I had about something. It’s like an idea I held so close to my heart suddenly comes crashing down. The last time this happened to me was at a…
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Loosening My Grip
These past couple of months, leading up to turning twenty-six, I’ve held on so tightly to the idea that I’m going to fall in love and meet my person. So tightly that almost every person I came across, no matter how small the interaction, my mind couldn’t help but wonder if they were the one—if…
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Trying to Pay Attention (But Failing)
It’s 8 a.m., and I’m sitting in a stats class trying my best not to pay attention. For some reason, when I know an exam is happening the same week that we have lecture, my brain automatically believes that everything said in lecture is null—not necessary for my brain to consume any new information. I…
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So Yeah, That’s Why I Cried Today
I cried at the gym today doing my last set of clamshells—an exercise I’m only doing to try to get better at running. I’m not sure if my knees will truly make it though, but that’s not the reason I cried. I cried because in a split second I realized my eating habits, or more…