Saving Daylight

My perception of Daylight Savings Time changes every year depending on what my class schedule is like. For instance, last year I barely noticed the time shift during the Fall semester. Probably because 90 percent of my time outside of classes was spent in the Daily Titan newsroom, where seven or so hours kind of …

Death by 1,000 Cuts

I've come to really appreciate the gym as a solid source of stress relief on days like today. Life can't all be fun and polling places after all. I may have gotten an initial high by doing my civic duty and voting, but that was a very small fraction of the day right when the …

Getting ready to vote

I've been positively swamped with homework, essays and exams this weekend. Which is why I didn't post any blog stuff yesterday. I quite literally locked myself in my room and did work, turning off (most) of the usual distractions. Luckily last night I got an extra hour of sleep from Daylight Savings Time, so I …

Figuring out the Facebooks

It's not very often that I can get meta about the inner workings of this blog I've got regarding subjects beyond the simple milestones like post numbers or followers. But today I wanted to do just that because of a somewhat more interesting development affecting the blog completely beyond my control. According to information put …

Saying Sayonara to 2016

As the holiday season and the year 2016 come to a close (very conveniently at the same time in this case), I feel like I can't help but take a moment to reflect on some things.  As I mentioned in my last post about Carrie Fisher's passing, the general attitude seems to be that 2016 …

November 9, 2016 Article Published

So this actually was not so much an article as it was a collection of briefs, but I'm pretty proud of the final product all the same. Yesterday was a historic election, undoubtedly.  The end result wasn't necessarily what I hoped it would be, which is an especially painful point considering it was my first …

Road to Decision 2016

The 2016 election is the first national election I've had the chance to vote for in my lifetime.While the Presidential race itself has admittedly been... Less than appealing, it hasn't changed my conviction to go out and do my civic duty for the first time.   With a lot of pretty significant proposition on the …

A very productive day indeed

Since this is something of a personal blog, I figure I can get a bit personal with the whole silly milestone kind of stuff. California's presidential primary for the 2016 election is today, and it's the first primary I'm old enough to vote in.  So, it's pretty exciting!  Especially considering just how much of a …