BPoT #204:
Being alive.

Life is a gift. Never forget how fragile it is, and how precious.

If only, if only, it were always like this

BPoT #203:

Homework as escape.

Has this ever happened before? I don't know. I only know that I had a rough day today, and all I was looking forward after finishing classes was lying and reading The Secret Garden. Imagine, looking forward to doing homework, in and of itself. It just proves that homework doesn't have to be an innately bad thing. I think this is something teachers and professors of all levels should devote more study to.

This is why I'm an English Major

BPoT #202:

Using homework to procrastinate for other homework.

So I have several reading assignments this week. Instead of reading Dr. Faustus (Satanic Motifs in Advanced Literature), An Ethiopian Story (Ancient Fictions), or a "Journalist's Introduction to Media Law," (Copy Editing) I'm reading The Secret Garden (Children's Literature). It's like pleasure reading disguised as homework.

Thank god for skype

BPotW #201:

Having another half.

Today my roommate and suitemates and I had dinner together and we all barely see each other cuz we're never in the room at the same time, except when we watch Project Runway together. So when my suitemate asked me how my week was, I answered "Considering this was the first week I've spent having a boyfriend in a long time, it was much better than last week." And it was.

It can do anything

BPotW #200:

Love.

This was undoubtedly the best part of the week. Not to make excuses, but it was part of the reason I didn't post all week. I was rather preoccupied with getting ahead of this weekend's homework so that I wouldn't have to do any while I was visiting my boyfriend in Boston. Thusly I haven't had time yet to compile another 10Best for the 200th post (another reason I didn't post all week), but one is forthcoming. I guess we'll just have to do with suspense for now.

Bonus!

BPoT #199:

A fortuitous homecoming.

Despite my best efforts at preparedness, over the first week of school I amassed a list of things that I wanted to bring up at the next available opportunity. I was intending on going home the first weekend into the year, but with the hurricane leaving its destructive effects, my house lost power. My school didn't, and I contemplated staying at school until the next weekend, when we would hopefully have power. But then our electricity was miraculously restored on Friday, and I headed home. The better surprise, though, was when I found out that my best guy friend who go to school all the way up in Boston said he was going to be back home too, and I wouldn't have gotten to see him if I hadn't have come home. ^_^

Awesome things

BPoT #198:

A most welcome surprise!

Great news! Because I mentioned 1000 Awesome Things in my post yesterday, I wanted to email Neil Pasricha and thank him as well as to share the post with him. I only half thought that he would email me back, thinking he'd certainly be too busy with other things, but there in my inbox this afternoon was a most gracious reply. Read the conversation below:

Dear Mr. Pasricha

I have been an avid follower of your blog for some time now, and will be very sad 167 days from today when we finally get to the end of the awesome things countdown. I just wanted to tell you how much of an inspiration you have been to me, both in life and in my own writing. I wanted to share this special blog post with you, since you have been such a positive and shaping influence in the creation of my own blog: http://livressontliberte.blogspot.com

I invite you to read it, if you can find the time, and if not, just know how much I have appreciated your daily words of wisdom.

I hope you all the best in your future endeavours.

Truly,

Eliza S

Ps. If you're not a nerdfighter, I think you would probably like being one. Google it. ^_^

From: 1000 Awesome Things

To: Eliza Smith
Sent: Thursday, September 1, 2011 12:53 PM
Subject: Re: Thanks

Hey Eliza!

Call me Neil! And I love your blog! Fantastic job. Keep up the great work and many thanks for the shout out. Blogging is so much fun. Keep being an Apostle of Awesome!

Neil

He obviously didn't say anything in response to my attempt to induct him into Nerdfighteria, but this response is further affirmation that he would be a perfect citizen of it. Calling someone "an Apostle of Awesome" is exactly something John or Hank might say (by the way, if anyone reading this doesn't know what I'm talking about, you should look it up too.) DFTBA