Busy Beats Bored

This semester is chugging along. This is both good and bad.
Good that it's going by so quickly. Already the birthday weekend with my roomie in the City is upon us and soon the visit from the Alaskan Bear will be here! (I'm just a tad excited)
Bad because it feels like I'm falling over my feet, attempting to squeeze every task in just in the nick of time. Clamoring as gracefully as I can to stand on my feet and breathe as I'm normally gasping for air, drowning in homework, responsibilities, articles, news, exams, practice, and a sea of social events.
Hopefully spring break will be a temporary life vest. 
Despite these tremulous feelings, I'm actually feeling quite successful in my writing for class and for The Stony Brook Independent. It's all going swimmingly.
My hope is to drag myself ahead and on top of the game, but does this ever really happen in the life of a student?
Maybe a student who always does assignments way before they are due or one without other responsibilities. Maybe one who doesn't do anything at all.
But for me, I always work better under pressure. I like having deadlines. Do I usually work to the wire in a frenzy caffeine induced terror- yes. Does it produce good work? Generally. Typically not with studying for exams, but with writing, this is very much the case.
Procrastination is key.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm pretty sure I have a quiz tomorrow to study for. And an exam on Wednesday.

Valentine's Day: A defense

Today is not a day for one who is "single" to lament on their relationship status. It is not meant as salt in the wound. More important, it is not meaningless. 
It is a day to celebrate love and affection for all. NOT just romantic love, but the love you have for others.
This is the day of the Feast of St. Valentine and here is some "history" that might get your head out of where ever it may be:

In legend that appeared in 1493, St. Valentine of Rome was imprisoned for performing weddings for soldiers forbidden to marry and for ministering for persecuted Christians. It is said that he healed the daughter of his jailer, Asterius, of blindness. A more fantastical ending to this story is that before his execution he wrote a letter signed "Your Valentine" as a final goodbye.

Geoffrey Chaucer and the High Middle Ages are among the first to associate the day with romantic love, expressed by flowers, candy, and cards called Valentines. St. Valentine's keys can be given as an invitation to unlock the giver's heart or to small children to ward off St.Valentine's malady, epilepsy.

Remember this is LEGEND and in any sort, it is where the modern day holiday evolved from. 

Stop feeling sorry for yourself and hating a day of love. Who cares if you don't have a boyfriend, girlfriend, husband, wife, partner, friends with benefits, or what have you to be disgustingly mushy with! Love yourself, be happy with friends, and literally treat it like any other day- maybe with a little more chocolate.