Grace in Small Things: 8.

(“This is a playlist excerpt” edition.)

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2. fun. – “Benson Hedges”

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4. Yeasayer – “Ambling Alp”

5. Harlem Shakes – “Sunlight”

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I went a little heavy on the songs that sound like warm weather this time around. What can I say? If I had a big enough hairdryer, I’d be outside looking for the grass right now. I am so. done. with snow.

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Things I have done wrong.

I’ve been trying, recently, to write a transfer essay for a college I dropped out of three years ago. Yeah, you probably read that sentence right. It doesn’t really make much sense.

The only thing I have ever really wanted a degree in is English. In May, I’ll have a degree…in Business. I’ll be in debt, and I’ll have a degree that is both useless to me, and completely, depressingly unwanted. Since accidentally graduating high school a semester early, I’ve told myself I wouldn’t settle – but. This Business degree?

Um. Settling. And for awhile, I was okay with it. I’d let myself be convinced that I’d wasted enough money – and enough time (I mean, I’ve been in college almost five years now; that’s disgusting).

I tried this college once, and like I said – dropped out. And it’s not cheap. It’s even on the “wow, that’s a little expensive” side of not cheap. But it’s what I want. I’m just nervous because how many times are they going to let the same person in based on their fluke-y ACT scores (because there is no way I scored that high based on legitimate knowledge) instead of mediocre transcripts?

And how am I supposed to write a two page transfer essay when all I can think of to say is, “I’ve been in college for five years and would like something to be proud of,” and “I promise I am not as dumb as I seem”?

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Grace in Small Things: 7.

1. Finding a new, better grocery store.
2. Finding out that said grocery store sells Sweet Leaf Tea, which I’ve been wanting to try for awhile. Which I had two coupons for, so..free tea! Verdict: new favorite bottled tea. The mint and honey green tea is fantastic and will continue to be so when I’m too lazy to make my own tea (which is often).
3. Juicers and the juice that comes from them.
4. Having better than “just passing” grades at mid-term in the two math related classes I’m being forced to take (I do not have a good track record with math related classes), finally.
5. The fact that though my area is under another winter storm watch, I have yet to see any evidence of it (I’ll get back to you on how this plays out, ugh).

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