Update! 6/29/2010

Ok, so this isn't going to be long or particularly profound, but I did want to at least let anyone who was not aware that I am, in fact, still alive. It's been a long time since I've actually written anything (aside from my formspring answers). I have completed my first City Year journey (with another to come), been through some THANGS with some friendships that I hold dear, and generally learned a LOT about myself, as cliche as that may sound. It's late (as that's when I tend to write), so I won't get into everything right now, but it's coming. I promise!

Oh yes, and ummm... HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS! I can't wait!

Oh, and Eclipse too. :)

Why are you, you?

Why am I me? Another interesting question...

I believe that I am who I am because of the things that I have been through, and the things that I believe. My experiences have shaped me, along with my faith, into the person that I am.

That's about as detailed as I can get without being too specific. However, I love these kinds of conversations, so ask me in person! :-)

Ask me anything

Why did you become a Delta?

Hmmm... The short answer is... suffice it to say Delta was in my heart long before I knew of Delta. Once I learned about Delta, it resonated with that I already knew was important to me. Delta is, at its core, about impassioned women who want to make a difference in the world around them. It also helps that I connected with the women on my campus.

I became a Delta to join the ranks of like-minded, but not homogeneous women and make an impact on my community.

I'm just lucky that Delta chose me back.

Ask me anything

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Happy Founders' Day!

Ok, it's been awhile... I'll work on that... But I had to stop in and drop some love on 1/13/2010 to wish all of my sorors a HAPPY FOUNDERS' DAY!!!!!!!! OOOOO-OOP!

"It started way back in 1913 when 22 courageous women had the ultimate dream! Dedicated to service, they reigned supreme, that's why we stand here today before you wearing Crimson and Cream!"

"*97* never looked sooooooo good, ladies! :-)

Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated

January 13, 1913

Howard University

My Decade in a Nutshell

Well, well, well… 2009, and in turn, the 200- decade is coming to an end. Of course I have some sentimentality about this, but as I am only 23, this is the first decade shift where I am able to reflect intuitively about the changes that I have been through. And there have been many.

This decade has seen me through high school and college. And I grew significantly in each. I doubt people with whom I lost touch from HS would recognize me now. I do not look much different, but my attitude is completely different. I have grown as a person, and I now, I love myself. I’m not sure that I did in HS.

Anyway, college continued lessons that I began in high school. I learned that you can’t trust everyone, but that you can trust a very few people with pretty much everything. I became a woman of the greatest sorority of all time, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., by the grace of the Mu Beta Chapter. That alone taught me so much about myself. What I was willing to do for something that I wanted, and exactly how much of myself I could give to others, to the greater good. And how much I could get back.

I realized that although Sisterhood, Scholarship, and Service meant more to me than before, school isn’t everything. Your learned experiences sometimes teach more than a professor lecturing from any textbook.

I realized that my heart was truly breakable, but that I had to love myself more than I loved anyone who did not explicitly want the best for me. I learned what it was like to want something or someone so badly that you would fight nearly to the death for it/them, and I also learned that sometimes you walk away, your head bloody, but unbowed, picking up your own pieces and moving on.

In this decade, I worked in the “real world,” and discovered that it’s really not that bad. You struggle with it if you aren’t willing to take your lumps to get to where you actually want to be; when you decide that you are too good to climb a ladder and decide to leap tall buildings in a single bound. J

I also embarked on a remarkable “idealistic journey” of service and development when I joined the City Year family. CY is hard, mainly because you don’t have a clue what you are getting into when you join it. But while the people you help would make it worthwhile anyway, the people you meet keep you going everyday.

2000-2009 brought joy and pain, suffering and loss and happiness and gain. All of my downs taught me how to appreciate being up, and all of my ups prepared me for being down. ALL of it was made possible by my Lord and Savior. He has truly kept me up, and been the footprints in the sand of my life.

I don’t think that any other decade will see me going through so many different stages of life. From high school to college to work to service. From innocence to love to heartbreak to a much deeper knowledge of what I want from myself and from others. It was all easy, and it was all hard, and regardless, if I had to do it all again, I’d face it chin up and with my hair blowing in the proverbial wind.

2010-2019 is going to be a damn good ride.

What Has Happened to Moral Obligations?

Hello beautiful souls!

So, I woke up this morning with nothing to do. Work has been cancelled, and this is the third day that I am relegated to my apartment because of "Snowpocalypse 2009" (according to the media hype). So of course, I wake up, call home to wish my little brother a Happy Birthday (he's seven!), and grab my laptop. Why not see what is happening in the world-at-large?

I check my email, and see some messages from friends, some spam, and some things in between. All of a sudden, a headline (from one of the many news sources deposited to my inbox daily) catches my eye. I click it in disbelief, hoping there is more to the story, and I get to this link: Headline: EMTs On Break Allow a Pregnant Woman To Die.

SERIOUSLY? The basic rundown of the story is that a pregnant woman started to have seizures in an Au Bon Pain in Brooklyn. There were two EMTs there buying breakfast who refused to help because they were "on break." They told the employees to just call 911. The Au Bon Pain was in the same building as the Fire Department HQ. So even if the EMTs didn't want to help, they could have easily found someone qualified to do so.

To me, this is extremely ridiculous. Being on break is fine and all, but you are an EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIAN. This was a medical emergency. This woman and her baby are DEAD, and her 4 year old son is now without a mother. How DARE you even THINK that you are allowed to turn your back on her!? Where is your human decency? And then the two EMTs get paid, but restricted leave. REALLY? They get a paid vacation for allowing a woman to die because they wanted breakfast? What a joke.

This is insane, and I am more than outraged. Americans are SOME OF the only people whose leisure time matters more to them than another human life. And that is just said. I'm too disgusted with this...