A year later, I return.

Hello World,

I have been gone for a while, but today is a new day.
I am sitting at my favorite coffee shop, which always manages to bring up my spirits.
Tea, is today the beverage of choice.
Coldplay is singing in my ears, their EP Prospekt's March, good stuff.
An up, after a down. It always works that way.
Yesterday I was thinking of the irony, one of my grandma's about to celebrate her 80th birthday, the other in the hospital with low platelet counts.
Today my sick grandma is doing better, this is encouraging.
Ideas floating in my head for a book, yeah... I want to write one. Something like a short collection of essays.
Ask me, I might tell you what I'm thinking, otherwise, look for it in stores by 2015.
New things excite me, and today we swore in a new president.
Hope swells within me, but it might just be this song I'm listening to.
Shout out to my sister, who is doing something great, and following her heart.
Today I am grateful for happiness.

love.

Paola

a LisT of tHingS on My mInd.

How sad is it that Heath Ledger is no longer with us? As I was at work rolling silverware, my friend Cody, asked if I had heard the news? For some reason or another, the news made me really sad, he was so young, and beautiful... lol. I absolutely heart '10 things I Hate About You' and I will always remember Heath Ledger singing on the steps of the football stadium... sigh. I wonder if he knew, how his acting impacted people, even in a corny, comically-relieving way?

Kenya. Kenya, has been on my mind lately. I cannot stop thinking about my son, yes, I have a sponsored son, Erick Njoroge, he is 17 years old, and in school in Kenya. It saddens me to hear, and read about all the political unrest that Kenyans are going through. Pray for Erick, if you think of it. Kenya has a huge part of my heart, and I hope that things begin to look up soon. This is a picture of Erick. Love him.



I wonder how this song I am listening to, actually does make me miss everyone. I am listening to "All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone," by Explosions in the Sky, and I think it is amazing how the music, which has no lyrics, does such an amazing job of portraying the emotion put into them. I like it.

It's cold. I like that too.

I think I have found my sport! If it's on ESPN it's a sport right? Well, I am in beginning bowling, and after learning the mere first step: arm swing, I am proud to say that I got 5 strikes. WHAT? I know huh?... I don't mean to brag or anything... but isn't that awesome? I am way on my way to a 300.

I wonder where I will be in a year? Any predictions?

You are what You hear, at least in part?

here begins my feeble reattempt at a blog. I did very poorly at keeping up with my last one, and I came to realize that it was quite outdated. Well, anyway, here I am again; hopefully, stronger, and with more random things to say.

You know, as I approach graduation, the more and more I realize, that maybe I have no idea what I want to do with my life. Shouldn't it be the other way around? By the time you are a senior you've honed down what you want to do? Well, I wish.

As I was sitting in my philosophy class today, it made me a little nostalgic that this was the last semester, in which I get to sit in class and discuss philosophy with the people around me, because c'mon, not a whole lot of people read Plato, Nietszche, Kafka, or Kierkegaard for kicks... I kept thinking to myself: "I want to be a philosopher-queen." I don't know, maybe I'll be a professor. GAH! That thought had never crossed my mind.

The real reason for my post however, (drum roll please)............ is that I would like to let you know a little habit of mine. I like to talk 'music' with people I meet, and download the music they say they like. I feel like listening to it gives me insight into who they are... so yes, I kinda judge you by what you listen to. And this makes me happy.

currently listening to: modest mouse.

peace.love...and a smile, always a smile.