Blurbs From Eunee's Mind (and Life)

So this seems like a random post after an entire year of not blogging. However, in some ways it represents what I have been doing away for a year - disciplining myself and persevering no matter what the weather. I have begun to jog and had actually increased my running to 6 miles before all those snowstorms hit in February. Hopefully the weather will be better - although I do run even if it's in the 30s so I'm just looking for some milder weather (today it was 18F in the morning). My friend and I are actually planning to run a 10K in April so I do have to get some more runs in before then and get myself back to running 6 miles. So, I thought a motivating factor would be to use my jogging as a fund-raiser for some of my projects that I am working on through my non-profit and with my classmate. I sent out a letter to my friends and have gotten a few sponsors for $1 per mile minimum, per run over 3 miles. Unfortunately I only got in two runs for February for a total of 8....

Inevitably, much to my protest, autumn has returned to Long Island. Of course I'm not foolish enough to believe that if I protest, God will delay the coming of autumn for just a while longer. Still, for about a month I have grumbled against the onset of autumn. Then I went to Bear Mountain which is towards the middle of New York state (I guess....or perhaps it qualifies as upstate New York) with my mom and my boyfriend; there I was reminded that autumn is something beautiful despite all my grumblings. I think God made all the colors so beautiful in autumn because the overcast skies and browning of the ground can become quite dreary. So here I'm sharing with you a photo that makes for a bright smile on such an autumn day. Protest as I may, we are quite in the middle of autumn here on the island, and cold winds signal the approach of winter. Most trees have shed their beautiful yellow, orange, amber, red, brown, and deep pink colors; they now stand naked, bracing for the wint...

I think Spring has put me on hold long enough. I have been in cold weather for far too long. I don't know what I was thinking when I applied to graduate school here on Long Island, but I guess I just didn't think far enough. I felt like I could handle this cold-weather thing; I mean, it was a new experience, so why not? Ha ha ha ha. How silly of me. Here's a picture of our last snowstorm: It is nearing the end of March and we still have weather in the 40s. I must remind you: I'm from Southern California where low 40s is rare and that's usually our winter. And if I really want to think about what I've been used to my entire life, I'm from Sub-Saharan Africa where I really don't think it ever got to the low 40s in my entire 11 years there! It does reach 50 on an odd day or two here, where I can't believe I'm saying it's "warm"! But it sure doesn't beat that warm ray of sunshine and at least 60-degree temps.... I'm definitely n...

Although a change in weather will bring its own little concerns such as getting anti-freeze for my car and new tires to drive in snow (in the event it does snow soon), I am looking forward to it for several reasons, one of them being NO MORE CRICKETS. If the superstition that crickets are supposed to be good luck is true, I must have loads of luck to last me till January. I have had a steady stream of cricket invasions in my apartment over the last two months since I've been here. (Wow....can't believe it's been over 2 months already!) Anyway, while the situation has improved to where I can have several cricketless days, from time to time those little buggers still find their way in. One would hope that the word has spread - no cricket has ever left alive out of my apartment, save a couple that were fortunate enough to be in my kitchen because then the door is right there so I just sweep them out. Still I've pretty much had it. I was eating dinner last night and heard a...