• Posts Tagged ‘reflection’

    Fingernails

    by  • January 26, 2011. 8:32 pm • General, Nikky • 0 Comments

    Finally get­ting around to read­ing Naked by David Sedaris, I was drawn to his nar­ra­tive regard­ing his smok­ing addic­tion. While I expect my lungs would explode if I took up cigs, I realised that I had a sim­i­lar habit that I needed to kick. I’ve been gnaw­ing on my fin­gers for as long as I can remem­ber. It was just some­thing that I always did. […]

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    Bright Lights In The Fog

    by  • January 15, 2011. 8:51 pm • General, Nikky • 0 Comments

    Dur­ing the dark Win­ter months, I fre­quently find myself on the seem­ingly aban­doned Bremerton-Seattle ferry. If one sits on the Southern-facing side of the ship, they are rewarded with a blink­ing bea­con from the Alki Light­house in the dis­tance. It’s not the bright­est light ever, and is cer­tainly not on any sort of fancy blink­ing pat­tern. When […]

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    After The Last Paper: Raw

    by  • June 16, 2010. 9:59 am • General, Nikky • 0 Comments

    After turn­ing in my last final paper as an under­grad, I wrote this. Below is the full, unedited text: I just turned in my final paper a few min­utes ago for Scan­di­na­vian 445, and with that I’m done with my under­grad­u­ate degree. After shuf­fling up the stairs at Raitt hall I went out­side to my favorite sit­ting place […]

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    A Life In Reflection, Part One: Introduction and My Childhood.

    by  • May 18, 2010. 7:04 pm • General, Nikky • 2 Comments

    This will rep­re­sent the first in a series of posts where I reflect [in a some­what pub­lic man­ner] upon var­i­ous aspects of my jour­ney these past four years. I debated call­ing this expe­ri­ence a “jour­ney,” but that is quite the accu­rate term for what occurred: a jour­ney is a expe­ri­ence where one starts out with a vague goal in mind and posses […]

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