With three feet of snow outside, and smoke curling inside

This is not going to be a necessarily meaningful post. Its occasion probably calls for it to be one, considering that such a great amount of time has passed since I've cared for this blog. But as I sit in my nook after a wonderful evening of hookah with Dre and Brittany, after two and a half snow days filled with forts, head shots, and damp clothing, I cannot think of any universal truth to draw from my experiences. I'm sorry if you're disappointed.

But how wonderful these past two days have been! A break from all work and cares, a lifetime has passed in this snow globe called West Chester which someone decided to give one hell of a shake. Until I heard the cheers at the tutoring center on Tuesday, when the entire campus population received the same class cancellation notice at the same time, I had forgotten what time with friends tasted like. I am ashamed. How could I have lost the memory of a lazy morning with friends sleeping in cuddle folds in the next room while a fellow early riser and I are placated with smells of Irish coffee? I had forgotten how devastating a lack of schedule is to my work ethic.

The one are of my work where I have been devoting my attention pretty systemically is my work with OLEG. Originally begun as my capstone requirement, I knew early on in the process that my passion for OLEG would bloom with the coming spring. So far I have finished writing a letter of inquiry to the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation. My next step in the project is to try to bridge OLEG and West Chester. The ideal goal is to forge a relationship that would be more substantive than an interest in fundraising, but I cannot yet envision any other type of partnership. This is an area I have to improve upon.

To return to the theme of found time for relaxation, I am amazed at how busy I am this semester. I always tell myself that I am not able to over committ myself more than I had the preceeding semester. I always manage to prove myself wrong. I just hope that in my frantic multi-tasking I don't loose the habits of dedication and disciplined concentration required to make a sustained difference in a given field.

My thoughts have already become distracted with visions of papers I want to write before I sleep tonight. There is a fair amount of work I must catch up on before I fly to Athens, Ohio for a forensics tournament tomorrow, so I will adjourn this reflection until a later time. I will try to write or at least post more, but I enjoy when my posts can be use as starting points for discussion. Forgive me for giving you something less, but for now, it was just necessary for me to dig out my blog, push off the snow, defrost the ice, and get the engine running once more.