Back on track

It's been quite a while since my first failed attempt at maintaining a blog. I think my major problem was a lack of inspiration. I was doing lots of big, seemingly important, life-changing things back in April and I felt the need to document them in cyber space for nobody to read! :) 7 months later, I can sum it all up in just a few words: summer speech-language camp, finished my first 13.1, began and completed 1/2 of my first off campus SLP internship, and survived up to midterms in my last semester of graduate coursework. Its shocking to consider how busy I have felt in the last several months and how little I actually accomplished when I type it out.

So to remedy my fickle blogging tendencies I have decided to give akhud's blog a minor overhaul. I've gone from my previously minimalist red, black, and white layout to something a teensie more upbeat but still my simple style. In reading my (2) previous posts, I discovered that I was attempting to write to relieve some sense of stress or to sort through my busy life. I was seeking to reorganize and compartmentalize my thoughts and daunting to-do lists but the actual effect only served to document how truly overwhelmed and distressed I was about life in general. Its no surprise I had no readers.

Alas, to make the transformation of my blog from minimalist woe-is-me to smart and practical-but upbeat and cheerful complete: I have decided to give it a theme of sorts. I now present to you, random reader the notion to focus each post on the general theme of being RESILIENT. As the author of this blog I hereby vow to follow one rule and one rule only: Regardless of the content of any post I will always conclude with something positive and seek the potential to grow as an individual, learn more about myself, and make myself and the world just a little bit better.

All for now. Operation "Face Value" begins when my alarm goes off at 6:30 tomorrow morning. More details on the origins of the name of my new project tomorrow....