The Wheel That Turns

Author : Sruts      Blog : Somewhere I Belong... the path to finding me      Date : 2/21/2013 5:21:31 AM

'One always wants and hopes for a great start to the New Year. While mine did seem to get off to a happy start, soon things seemed to grow their own neurons and think and do things that I’d rather have not had happen. In the aftermath of a rather surprising move that left almost … Continue reading »'

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2012 – A Retrospect Pt. 2

Author : Sruts      Blog : Somewhere I Belong... the path to finding me      Date : 1/1/2013 7:00:35 AM

'What should have been a hundred line post has now become two posts of more than a hundred lines each. It’s a whole year that I am attempting to surmise. I know it can be easily accomplished but I am not that skilled, nor am I in the mood to mince words. Hence, here I … Continue reading »'

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2012 – A Retrospect Pt. 1

Author : Sruts      Blog : Somewhere I Belong... the path to finding me      Date : 12/29/2012 6:49:22 PM

'I have not written as much as I would have liked to this past year and the only proof of this exists in the form of incomplete draft posts. All my ideas and thoughts, though, have remained rather fresh in my mind and so I decided, as I did once before, that I shall simply … Continue reading »'

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The greatest th…

Author : Sruts      Blog : Somewhere I Belong... the path to finding me      Date : 11/21/2012 4:20:17 AM

'The greatest thing you’ll ever learn, is just to love and be loved in return – eden ahbez Filed under: Espresso - Black Cream and Sugar Tagged: eden ahbez'

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I Like to Look at the Sky

Author : Sruts      Blog : Somewhere I Belong... the path to finding me      Date : 8/29/2012 3:43:12 AM

'Filed under: Listen, See, Feel Tagged: clouds, photography, sky'

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My July in Pictures

Author : Sruts      Blog : Somewhere I Belong... the path to finding me      Date : 8/6/2012 2:25:26 AM

'Filed under: Listen, See, Feel Tagged: chicago, photography, photos'

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From the Other Side of 25

Author : Sruts      Blog : Somewhere I Belong... the path to finding me      Date : 7/31/2012 3:20:37 AM

'I’ve never felt old, even though I am the oldest child – the only child actually, but with the youngest cousin ten years my junior, I probably should’ve felt old when I hit 20. I didn’t. It’s not that I don’t care about it, because now when I pick my ‘age group’ on forms I’ve … Continue reading »'

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From the Ashes a Fire Shall Be Woken

Author : Sruts      Blog : Somewhere I Belong... the path to finding me      Date : 7/21/2012 9:00:31 PM

'Very few movies have me on tenterhooks, tense with anticipation and excitement. This year, 2012, ushered in an early onset of nerves; for The Dark Knight Rises and The Hobbit. Since I have precisely 5 months to build up to the second and am still reeling from the after-effects of an early morning showing of the first, … Continue reading »'

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My Rant For Heavy Metal \m/

Author : Sruts      Blog : Somewhere I Belong... the path to finding me      Date : 6/22/2012 4:56:41 AM

'Heavy metal, or simply metal, is a misunderstood genre. While there is very little of mainstream music I admire or even listen to, metal has been a good friend through my teenage years and has followed me into adulthood. There is an element of metal music that hits home. It’s not just the loudness and … Continue reading »'

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A Visit to the Emerald City

Author : Sruts      Blog : Somewhere I Belong... the path to finding me      Date : 5/25/2012 3:43:24 PM

'“Why Seattle?” is the most common question I’ve been asked in the past month, since I decided to go to Seattle. I’ve just shrugged in reply. It has been on my list of ‘places to visit in the U.S. of A.’ But why I, a twenty-something year old with money to spend, picked Seattle over … Continue reading »'

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Author : Sruts      Blog : Somewhere I Belong... the path to finding me      Date : 5/14/2012 6:01:22 PM

'I love my books and I like good adaptations of them as movies, plays, musicals, television series, etc. So, when my Deutschlehrerin casually told me that she was going to watch Pride & Prejudice I went, literally, berserk. How could I have not known about it?! A little theater company called the Lifeline Theatre was … Continue reading »'

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My Irish Weekend

Author : Sruts      Blog : Somewhere I Belong... the path to finding me      Date : 3/20/2012 2:29:15 AM

'The Irish are fascinating, aren’t they? My earliest interaction with the Irish began with leprechauns, as is with most children outside of Ireland, I think. Little old men with pots of gold… My festivities began rather early. From the end of January, if memory serves right, when I found out (it is for this reason … Continue reading »'

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A City’s Birthday!

Author : Sruts      Blog : Somewhere I Belong... the path to finding me      Date : 3/6/2012 3:08:37 AM

'Filed under: Listen, See, Feel Tagged: 175th birthday, blue cross blue shield building, chicago, chicago river, city life, cloud gate, columbus drive, photography, smurfit-stone building, the bean, trump tower'

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The Hiatus Explained

Author : Sruts      Blog : Somewhere I Belong... the path to finding me      Date : 3/5/2012 4:17:56 AM

'Ah! The number of posts that have begun with “I’ve been meaning to write, but…” I just ran out of excuses, so I’ve caved in and begun to type away. How long has it been? A couple of months, at least. It’s already been nine weeks since I got back from my three week visit with … Continue reading »'

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As I Walked Along

Author : Sruts      Blog : Somewhere I Belong... the path to finding me      Date : 2/23/2012 1:26:11 AM

'The gorgeous Lake Michigan, on a cold winter evening'

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10 Reasons I Love Libraries

Author : Sruts      Blog : Somewhere I Belong... the path to finding me      Date : 12/24/2011 3:38:37 PM

'I have loved libraries for as long as I can remember. I have loved books even longer than that. There’s just something about the way a library is structured – architecturally and internally – that draws me to them, the sights and smell. Ah! The smell of a thousand books waiting to be read… I’ve [...]'

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2012 Reading Challenge

Author : Sruts      Blog : Somewhere I Belong... the path to finding me      Date : 12/23/2011 9:52:19 AM

'In March 2011, I signed up for a reading challenge and aimed to complete 100 books by the end of the year. But, given that I began nearly three months late, I had to give up any realistic hope of completing a 100 books. Instead, I aimed at about 60, and managed to finish up [...]'

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Yours, I Remain

Author : Sruts      Blog : Somewhere I Belong... the path to finding me      Date : 11/14/2011 9:42:54 PM

'My heart stops, just for a moment Now, it begins to race. I feel the blood pump through my veins, My breath quickens, my resolve weakens. I hear tales, Fantastically woven ones, I wonder which ones are true, Willing myself to believe only what you mean to me. I clear my head of colliding thoughts, [...]'

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Musicals!

Author : Sruts      Blog : Somewhere I Belong... the path to finding me      Date : 11/3/2011 3:00:20 AM

'I haven’t watched a lot of musicals, truth be told, but those I have watched I have loved! The Sound of Music, The Lion King, Mary Poppins, Oliver!, Grease, Chicago,and  West Side Story being some that I can recall at this moment. My most recent flirtation with a musical was Jane Austen’s Persuasion. Funky, right? [...]'

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Hallowe’en

Author : Sruts      Blog : Somewhere I Belong... the path to finding me      Date : 11/1/2011 9:46:29 PM

'Or All-Hallows-Eve. Fun time. I associate it, like almost everybody else, with wearing delightful costumes, or absolutely dreadful ones, collect candy, get sugar high, tell scary stories, and howl at the moon. As I’ve grown older, the collecting candy part has become, setting out candy and cringing at the colorful sugary things that kids reach [...]'

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