Twenty-Something Ramblings

Resolutions

2012-01-16T17:52:00.000-05:00

I don't keep my resolutions for New Years. Ever. Each year I will choose something ridiculously broad that I could never actually keep track of: be healthier. Be happy. Be patient.

This year, while still working on those three, I've decided to make an actual resolution I can measure: blog. I love reading blogs, and I always admire the blogs of women my age or slightly older that are so well written and thought out. I want to be able to pull something like that together, and I've always been too impatient to get over the initial hump of being used to writing interesting posts and promoting my blog (maybe by making this resolution I can also chop away on that pesky 'be more patient' goal...)

...now what?

2011-12-06T21:39:00.000-05:00

I thought I was going to follow one path after college for over a year. I worked really hard to get where I am, and now I question it all. A few years ago I hit a fork in the road; one direction or the other. Part of me thinks I went down the wrong path. Part of me thinks I should have turned right around and found another exit.

Needless to say, I'm confused. I feel a little bit like a failure, since I'm almost seven months removed and I still don't have an inkling of what I want to do with my life. I'm stressed to the max and I feel as if everyone else is at least starting to figure it out. I feel like every day I get pushed further and further away from making some decisions.

Hopefully, it will all work out. That's what everyone says, least.

This past week has been busy. I have some deadlines to meet, and that is stressful. I have a presentation coming up. It's been rainy here and a little humid, which is weird for December. I guess it's best it's not ten below zero... but at the same time, this weather just makes me want to crawl back into bed.

This hasn't been the most uplifting entry. Once December 16th hits I will be free of stress for a few weeks; hopefully I'll get out of this funk by then.

First post

2011-12-04T21:00:00.000-05:00

This is probably the tenth time I have tried to have a blog. There's a blog I occasionally look back on that I wrote in from about 2003-2010 on Livejournal, but it was private and really meant to as an outlet for me to keep up with some friends from a town I had moved out of before the Facebook age. It's actually really entertaining to read those archives; since it covered just over seven years, it spans my experiences from beginning high school to starting to end college. It's fantastic to have.

Anyways, I want something like that now. A lot has been changing and nothing's been going to plan- especially these past six months- and I think it will nice to be able to look back on this.

I'm not sure what shape this blog will take yet. I want to be able to comment on things I'm liking at the moment, recipes I'm trying to master, rants about my day, and what will (hopefully) be a successful try at figuring out what I want to do with my life. Sort of a tall order...

Short attempt at an introduction:
I'm in my early twenties. I graduated from college in May. I loved my school and I miss it a lot- it doesn't help that I chose to stay in the same city after graduation, because I happened to go to school in a fantastic (though expensive) city for people my age. I was a biology major in college, and after struggling for years in school whether or not I should go into research, medicine, or something entirely unrelated, I'm still pretty much at the same point. This year has been sort of my attempts at figuring it all out. Currently I'm doing research, but we'll see where that heads...