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  1. "Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom"

    - Victor Frankl

  2. "Sooner or later we must realize there is no station, no one place to arrive at once and for all. The true joy of life is the trip."

    - Robert Hastings

  3. "You change for two reasons: Either you learn enough that you want to, or you’ve been hurt enough that you have to."

  4. "Change is not a process for the impatient."

    - Barbara Reinhold

  5. How much shit does it take to push me over the edge? A shit load….and I think I’ll keep it that way. I like that I’m so understanding but I hate when I’m punished for being me. Conundrums associated with being Shay are painful ones indeed. But I’ll take life no other way. In my world you’ve got to go through hell to get to heaven.

  6. Crazy Cat Rave with Circus Performers? Oh, I’m there.

    Crazy Cat Rave with Circus Performers? Oh, I’m there.

  7. [Flash 10 is required to watch video]

    Ringing Rocks Park: Baba Guh and Blickety Black go on an Adventure

  8. My future…

    Sometimes life comes to a fabulous stand still. Everything is perfect, or at least seemingly so, and I want to savor my current world like a fine bowl of potato salad….but then at others, it just feels warmly stagnant. Things aren’t terrible, but not passionate…Then I remind myself that it isn’t necessary for every day of my life to have the highs of an induced manic bender. But none-the-less, I find myself wanting more right now. I just want to speed up about a year or two, nothing special.

    I think a lot now about wanting to move somewhere far for grad school….California - if I were to move anyway - is my number one….so it’s Widener or California….I’m sure I’ll sort this out, but for now, maybe I should just focus on getting myself there, and not how badly I want to be there already.

    Ok, 8-year plan time:

    Now - Jan. 1st, 2012: at my current job

    Jan. 1st, 2012 - Fall 2013: working someplace else….either on another study or something more clinical.

    Fall 2013: Either - Widener dual degree Ed.D. in Human Sexuality with an MSW (4 years)

                                 M.Ed. Human Sexuality with an MSW (3 years)

                                 Psy.D. with an M.Ed. in Human Sexuality (5 years)

                       …or wherever I can find a good PhD psychology program that will have me

    With this plan, I should be done with school by 31 at the very latest, but let’s shoot for 29.

  9. Withdrawal is what I get for being too proud to admit to my Mom that I’m a smoker…

  10. 14hr car ride…

    It’s incredible how dangerous too much time can be. If left to my own thoughts for too long, I’m completely capable of buying into any number of fictional and occasionally paranoid scenarios running through my mind like full length movies with surprisingly sad endings….Then every so often the real Shay snaps back, mentally bitch slaps my weaker ego, and I’m back at square one, only to repeat the cycle once an hour until this torturous car ride reaches it’s conclusion….A sign comes into focus: “Welcome to Pennsylvania”….thank god, only 5ish hours until freedom.