tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20131651544707247032011-12-29T23:20:12.307-08:00The ramblings of a college graduate as she contemplates her next move.ShadeNonconformisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684872244505806973noreply@blogger.comBlogger631100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2013165154470724703.post-7007952840936650262011-11-26T22:36:00.000-08:002011-11-26T23:02:55.672-08:00

Hello everyone... Happy belated thanksgiving to "all the Americanas"...) I'm sure y'all must be stuffed from all the food...I know i kinda am...Almost pulled out the "Joey pants" sef but i controlled myself....:) Speaking of food, it's a blessing to have food. Some people don't have food...That i don't have to worry or think about when/where I'll be getting my next meal is humbling and i'm so

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Howdy howdy peeps.. Okay i'm sorry i lied:) I have no "confession at all". (I was watching the Backyard crew's Oliver video for the hundreth time...Hence the title).... The only confession i have is that i'm doing good. I thank God for his grace and mercy in my life. Plus the boyfriend and i worked things out and are doing okay. i may have blown thigns out of proportion *insert embarrassed

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Hello peeps, Sheesh, i've been so awol from here, it's so ridiculous and disgraceful.. I honestly wouldn't have been here in another month due to life ish (i know i'm such a bad child) but my boyfriend just hurt my feelings so so so bad yesterday. To make matters worse, a few minutes ago, I was sitting up crying my eyes out in my room like a mumu and I'm like shit, i haven't blogged in forever

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 Morning everyone (it's 12.37am my side of the globe)... I hope everyone is doing okay? God is our strength... Less i forget, Happy Ramadan to my Muslim peeps...Una better pray for me o... Ehen.. Okey dokes, I need to quickly share something before i deuces to bed... I spoke to my mum not too long ago and she shared some ish going on that just made me go WTF! It shook me to my core...This world

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Hello everyone. My goodness! Its been a while. My serious bad (yawn Shade). Shout out to Dosh for calling me out....Thanks lady:) Plus, I hope everyone is doing well? God dey. Per moi, i'm just hanging in there. Enjoying the last week of my vacay before i return to work... *sad face*... Per my aunt, she's doing okay. Although she's had to be hospitalized twice in the past 2 weeks because she had

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I was hoping that my first post after being away for a hot second would be all happy go-lucky. But alas it wasn't meant to be, i guess. Apart from the fact that i spent the entire day yesterday crying as I'm extremely unhappy with how I did on my exam (it is in God's hands), my dad just told me that my aunt has cancer of the stomach which has unfortunately spread to her liver. I'm shocked! I

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I don't know how to start this post. I'm here to talk about the first year anniversary of Dagrin's death. But at this point there's so much running through my mind (from naija politics to world hullabaloo) and i'm really over the death situation. In the past 1 month, I've had friends who've lost friends/ family members and heard of too many people dying at a young age. I couldn't/can't help

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Ekale araye. I hope everyone is well? I've been awol because, like i said 2 posts ago, of an exam that I'm studying for. So I'm pretty much going to be awol till June. I'm in super duper extreme geek mode. God dey sha. Which would leave some of you to wonder why I'm blogging and not studying. I was actually studying but for the last darn 15 minutes, my mind has been focused on getting me "some"

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  We've all heard about the terrible earthquake and tsunami in Japan. It's so scary and sad. Plus the issue with the possibility of the nuclear meltdown. Yikes...I do hope that is resolved stat! Yet it's interesting to note how inhuman some people are even in the midst of tragedy. I really don't get that. Why can't people move beyond racist rants and just see that we're all human. It's so

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Hello everyone. Wow Shade! 2 posts in less than 1 day, you sure are on a roll... Anyhoo, I'm here blabbing again because i had the worst scare today. Long story commences: Because the Lakers were playing/played the Spurs at 12.30 pm today (PST), I decided i would wake up early (like around 6.30am) so i could make the 9:00am service at church. I woke up and my bones were hurting. I brushed it

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Happy Saturday/weekend everyone. I'm currently jamming to the songs from Neefemi's Praise Thursday Post hence the title. Sigh. Bless you for the post sweets. God is truly awesome. I mean i know it, but sometimes i just forget how awesome he is. I look at myself and some of the things i've done and will do. To think that the God of all creation can still love me, i can't help but tremble in awe..

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Allo Allo everyone... Bleh.... As usual, i hope everyone had a great week? The weekend is here... Before i go into a calm, happy mood, my thoughts go out to the people in Libya. I mean it's just horrendous what is going on. Gadaffi needs to be..... To think that people are being killed because they want a different leader/political system is mind boggling....I watched Saif Al Islam Gadaffi's

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  Thanks to Uzo for this... I just LOVE it and had to share... "You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness. In this case, it comes from nonconformity, the courage to turn your back on the old formulas, the courage to invent the future. It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. We

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Hello peeps. It feels like a hot minute since i last blogged. E ma binu. Nothing much going on with me. Well except from the fact that i have the flu AGAIN thanks to 2 of my colleagues who decided that the best gift they could give to me this valentine's day weekend is show up to work and infect me. I'm so pissed. Sigh. Work is stressful but hey, it wouldn't be work if it isn't stressful at

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Hello everyone. I hope you've all been having a blessed week so far? I have. It's also been stressful and what not but i thank God i at least have a job in this shitty recession. So the main koko of this post has to do with what i heard on the radio some minutes ago on my way home from work (I'm literally still in my work clothes) and i just had to share. I'm tired as a mofo but I knew that

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Helloooo everyone! *said in Mrs Doubtfire's voice*. Its been a hot minute. I hope everyone is doing well and has been having a blessed fantastic week so far. So i'm here blabbing because I received the stylish and versatile blogger award from 3 lovelies: Taynement, Neefemi, and Lily. Thanks so much to 3 of you. I feel special *blushing*. Okay so i'm apparently supposed to mention 7 things about

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Happy New Year everyone! That it took me a week to update my blog and even type Happy New Year on here is quite sad, hence the title. 2010 was a good year. It had its ups and downs. More downs than ups but the ups and the undeserving grace of God made my life less sucky. I got to experience the working world in naija, discovered that regardless of all my frustration and angst, moving back to

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Merry Christmas everyone! Yeah i know Christmas is a pagan holiday, but i still thank God for allowing his precious perfect son to be born into this sinful world so that he could redeem us from sin. Glory be to the father for the undeserving blessings and mercies he showers on us. I'm so thankful and undeserving. I'm sorry to be a debbie-downer (i so miss that sketch from SNL) but i have to

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Ekale araye, Sorry for the misleading title. I didn't know what to title this post so i resorted to the title of the above song which has been stuck in my head since Saturday. *Now singing*. Moving on.. Forgive me, I don't know what to start with. So i'll just random. Stale news, a settlement has been reached between Former VP Cheney and naija. *now rolling eyes*. If i talk, i WILL definitely

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A very late happy Sunday to everyone. I hope the past few weeks and weekends have been great for everyone. Thank God for life, grace, and salvation. Nothing much has been going on with me. Just work and laziness (yeah Shade what's new)...Plus i have this flu that has refused to go for the past two and a half weeks in spite of my resting and taking medication. And i don't want to go to the

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Happy Friday lovers! I hope everyone had an awesome thanksgiving. I honestly did. I thank God because i really thought i would have to spend thanksgiving at Olive Garden because my dad is so not a holiday person and my step-mum has left, but God had other plans. Besides i was being too heady and did not want to call people to ask if i could spend time with them and their families. But God being

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Allo Allo everyone. It's a wet cold Saturday in so-cal. It's really beginning to feel like Fall. Yay! For a couple of days, it appeared like the sun forgot that we are in the fall season. We'll soon begin to see millions of more Californians dressed up like they're heading to the east coast. Oh please! We just like to deceive ourselves:) It's funny though. Nothing much going on with moi. Been

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Allo everyone. Shout to SolomonSydelle for dragging me out of this funk/laziness I've been in. Her comments on my "2 weeks old" post "gingered" (ugh i hate that word) me to update. I have been AWOL for God knows why. Granted I've been busy (I recently got 2 new jobs) and pre-occupied trying to sort my life out, but i still have no excuse. I've not been busy to leave comments on other people's

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Happy Birthday to the one and only Lyrical Were!! I still can't believe that it's been exactly 6 months since he passed away (He died on Thursday, April 22nd 2010). Sigh. It's really hard to comprehend. I didn't know Dagrin personally, but his music made me feel like I did. Last year, I remember when I first heard and watched the video for "Pon Pon Pon", I was like this dude is too crazy!!! I

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Happy late Friday. I hope everyone had a great week so far. I want to quickly share this article that was sent to me last week (I'm so sorry Tari) . It's from the passionate and talented Tari Ekiyor and her campaign for MTV Africa to change the slogan for the MTV Africa Music Awards. In the scheme of things, this may not appear important. But indeed it is! You'll be surprised as to how something

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Happy late Sunday everyone! I hope you had a great day. I had a blessed day at church. Thank God. Here in so-cal the weather has been quite gloomy and cold. Oh well! Knowing how so-cal weather fluctuates like PCHN, i won't be surprised if tomorrow is hotter than a mofo. We'll see. Naija no dey carry last (as we say) Congrats to Uti for winning BB Allstars! Dude is now about 30 million naira

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Happy late monday lovers, Yesterday, I came across this funny yet insightful article on Jaguda.com by Chimezie "Snake-Eater" Okonkwo. In the article, "What's wrong with these facking kids", he discusses the psyche of naija children in this present generation. It's a great read. Here's the link I'm sure most of us probably heard about the notjustok.com diss track. Lol. Ha! All i gotta say is,

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The past 2 days, I've been too frustrated to blog about the 2nd bomb explosion that was foiled in Abuja. It also doesn't help matters that our President is being made to appear like a fool/unfit leader after issuing statements claiming MEND was not responsible for the bombing, but yet MEND insists they are. I'm equally too irritated to comment on Henry Okah's claims, one of which was that an aide

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The nice funny blogger Sugarking was nice enough to let me do a brief post on his blog in relation to the recently concluded 2010 UN Review Summit and the Millennium Development Goals. Feel free to check it out. Here is the link Thanks again SugarKing. Also, for those who are interested, which should be ALL NIGERIANS, the good ol'  folks at Enough is Enough have compiled a list of all the

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Happy Sunday everyone. This 50th Naija anniversary celebration has been bitter sweet. We all heard about the Friday twin bomb attacks in Abuja that led to death of at least 12 people and injured many others and damaged about 30 vehicles. My condolence to the families of the people that were killed and injured. May the Lord God comfort you all through this trying period. Interestingly,

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Happy Independence day fellow Nigerians!! As we celebrate this day, I pray it marks the beginning of  progress towards great things in our beloved country: improved/constant electricity, enlightened and engaged politicians, citizenry engagement, good roads, a functional health care system, adequate salaries for police officers, civil servants, doctors, nurses, and fighter fighters,

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Sweet sweet tunes I'm currently jamming to in commemoration of our upcoming 50th. Eldee: One Day. Julius Agwu: Great People Great Nation  (This song is just so nostalgic and encouraging. God bless naija...God bless all the heroines and heroes who have sacrificed their lives to advance Nigeria in the right direction).

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Thanks to LindaIkeji and Naijablog, I came across this article on BBC News by Peter Cunliffe-Jones. It basically talks about "How Indonesia overtook Nigeria". Great piece and real food for thought. The following stood out to me: "What I realised," Chukwudifu Oputa, the retired Supreme Court Justice selected in 1999 to look into human rights abuses under the military, told me one day, "is we have

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Yeah i know this is late but check out President Jonathan's campaign videos on SSD's page. My issue with the campaign videos is that the focus is on the artists and not on President Jonathan (one would actually think it's a regular music video of sorts). President Jonathan literally comes in at the end of the video. Shouldn't the campaign manager realize that president Jonathan's image should be

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The 2010 UN Review Summit began today in New York and I was going to blog about the Millennium Development Goals but I'm just too heartbroken and sad. I just found that four of my close friends from high school lost their dad today. I was at the store when she bb'd me, "My dad is gone". I couldn't believe it. Apparently, he died of liver cancer. It's so sad. What makes it even more shocking is

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I can't sleep. My friend woke me up at 5.15am to remind me to pick her up from the airport at 8.30am and now i'm having trouble snoozing. I shall curse her out when i see her. Moving on. So in place of sleep, i thought to share tracks that have been on repeat in my mind and I-T over the past couple of days. Enjoy. 1) Yanni- Within Attraction (Live at the Acropolis). Whenever i think of

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I read this on naijablog and i decided to re-post it. Great information being dispensed here. Subject: An open letter to middle-class parents in Lagos To: lagosparents@googlegroups.com “30 is the new 18”. That seems to be an unspoken but widely accepted mindset among the last 2 generations of parents in Nigeria . At age 18 years, a typical young adult in the UK leaves the clutches of his/her

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According to the Team Ribadu group spokesperson on facebook, Mbasekei Martin Obono, Nuhu Ribadu will pick his party membership card on the 20th of September 2010 in his ward in Adamawa State. Obono stresses that the Team Ribadu event management committee is "working assiduously to ensure that the event goes down in our nations' history as the beginning of our journey to National Rebirth" (Team

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So here i am trying my best to sleep so i can go to church because it's 12.36am, but i have some stupid neighbors who think that it's okay for them to blare loud salsa music. I mean like WTF!! Are people that dumb? I mean as an adult, there should be a certain amount of rational behavior/thinking pattern that we should display and engage in. It''s so ridiculous. It is freaking 12.37am now and the

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I'm in a euphoric mood right now. Moving on... Naija music is going places. It's a beautiful thing. These are 5 crazy tracks i currently have on repeat right now (actually there are more than 5, but i chose to stick with 5 for this post). Enjoy. 1) Samklef ft Whizkid, D'Prince and Ice Prince - Molowo Noni 2) Rayce - Won fe Moje 3) Vector ft Emmerson - Kilode 4) DJ Neptune ft M.I., Naeto

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Right now I'm feeling so despondent about Nigeria. I can't help but ask myself: "Is there really hope for us as a nation?" From the deep level of corruption, uneducated leaders, poverty, unnecessary violence, to the millions of cases of abuse that go unpunished, one cannot help but wonder. Sigh. I guess there is hope. Actually there is hope. There are millions of Nigerians in Nigeria who are

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Hello everyone,                          I hope y'all have been having a blessed week so far. It is well. During my usual web-surfing, I came across some very insightful and foolish comments that i thought i should share. Such comments make you marvel at others determination and willingness to think outside the box/go against the norm. Some comments on the other hand, just make you weep for the

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Wow!! I can't believe it's been almost 4 months since i blogged. sigh...That's crazy. I don't even have a rational excuse. Granted internet in naija can be slow and work was a little intense, but still now. Anyhoo, I'm back rejuvenated and all. Thank God. So where do i start? The 6 months i spent in naija were amazing, stressful, frustrating, fun, and crazy. I had a blast. My internship and

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A very Happy Happy overdue belated new year to everyone. I cannot believe that i did not do one single blog post in the month of January...Odikwa very serious...It's not as if i was busy helping Yaradua recuperate in Saudi Arabia and encouraging him to do the right thing by signing the letter and handing over power to V.P. Jonathan....smcheew. I apologize... And for those that checked up on me,

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Merry belated christmas everyone... Thank God, yesterday he allowed his perfect son to be born into this sinful world so that he could redeem us from our sins... Praise God for his mercies... Well, I got to naija safely. As usual, the heat that slapped me when i arrived at the airport was unbearable...haha.... Although i'm happy i am out of the constant rain and snow in england....I will miss

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Well well. go figure.. I am sick like a bird thanks to my cousin who has been sneezing and coughing like a deranged maniac...I really hate being sick...i mean who doesn't? But it seems like i have a penchant for falling ill. Honestly.. At home, i'm known to fall ill randomly. But the last 2 years at school, it went up a whole other notch. I was always sick (no exaggeration). I was known to be

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So I got to England safely.. Thank God..But obviously i have to tell some stories about my experience at the airport... 1) As usual, the almighty green passport got called out by airport officers. The officer i was speaking to really irked me. He kept asking me questions and speaking to me like i was a kid. I mean come off your soap box about customs requirements for money order. I already told

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Hey everyone. So i finally have my life back, partially. Yay! My exam was this past saturday. It was bleh. On one of the sections, i blanked out and had to guess on 15 questions. I don't even want to begin to think about the ramifications of my guessing. But the truth is at this point, there's nothing i can do... What's done is done. Jesus take the wheel.Anyhoo, the point of this post (haha...i

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Hey y'all, i know i've been MIA for a while..My bad. It's just that applying to law schools and studying for this LSAT exam is kicking my ass. I'm nervous and worried as hell because i have to really do well on the exam. Thus making it difficult for me to post regularly....By God's grace it will soon be over on Dec 5th....It is wellAnyhoo, i came across this post on Nairaland about the new

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This is not a really post but links to pieces of information i came across on someone's blog and thought to share. Thanks for bringing this to our attention.1) Safety tidbits for people living in Naija: The Nigeria police wishes to advise all to avoid the following places as they have been identified as hot spots for Ritual Killings: 1. Ota, Ogun State2. Lambe, Ogun State3. Ikorodu, Lagos

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I was browsing through Linda Ikeji's blog today and she had a post on a bunch of photos in Time Magazine by Pieter Hugo. I urge y'all to take a look at the photos. To say i was shocked is an understatement. I literally felt helpless and weak. Why? Because for whatever reason, i felt like there was nothing i could say or do to critique Mr Hugo's art. I googled Hugo to find some type of contact

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So i don't know if y'all have seen the movie Guilty Pleasures by Emem Isong which by the way is bomb ass. However, i took serious issue with a particular scene in the movie. Just so that i don't spoil the movie for those who haven't seen it, I'll try not to give the movie away.Basically in this scene, Ramsey Noah (Tesso) when he discovers something about his wife (played by the beautiful Nse

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I woke up today feeling a lot better than yesterday. Thanks to TayneMent & Myne Whitman.And to show you how faithful God is, i got a call from one of my friends at school telling me that i forgot to pick up my resident assistant summer paycheck. I was so happy. I don't know how much the paycheck is worth. I don't even care! I am just grateful that the Lord showed me and continues to show me that

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Right now I'm so sad and depressed. I feel so empty and i know that in a couple of minutes, i am going to start crying. I tried praying to God, but i couldn't even get on my knees to pray. I said a little prayer in my heart and decided to do the next best thing, write.I'm not exactly sure why i am so sad. I just know that I'm overwhelmed with studying for my LSAT exam, working on my law school

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Here i am on my bed trying to get some sleep so that i can go running in the morning. But the sleep refuses to come. (That's what i get for taking too many naps). Well, I decided to do the next best thing....Write. Hopefully, I'll be able to get some sleep once I'm done getting stuff off my chest.Things that came up today (inspired by a friend of mine)1) I was reading a friend's blog yesterday

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Hold up! Before anyone starts hollering read first and then comment.Last week at school, one of the resident assistants and I were watching "When Animals Strike Back" on Discovery Channel in a mutual friend's room. The show started off really interesting, with animals attacking people and what not. But after a while i noticed my friend and i both had this smirk on our faces and kept looking at

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For the past couple of weeks, I haven't written anything new. I've basically been chilling, reading, enjoying life, working on my CV, sleeping, trying new crap, and working at a lab (the positives of being a college graduate...lol). I've also used the "free" opportunity to catch up on some interesting blogs and what not. Some blogs had interesting posts about life, culture, entertainment and what

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Today i was in class jejely paying attention to my professor discuss male and female leadership styles in my women studies class like the judicious Nigerian child that I am. 30 minutes later, a girl walks in (obviously late for class). What does she do next? She brings out her laptop, opens up the lid and spends her time on some useless social networking site (which by the way automatically

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Finally! I cannot believe I have been AWOL for about 3 months. Chai!! This is what school does to one. Anyhoo, so i finally graduated 1 month ago. God be praised. One of the reasons i was unable to blog for a while. I was extremely overwhelmed with deadlines, papers and what not. The day before my graduation was HORRIBLE!! One of my papers turned out bad. Basically what happened was that I had

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Due to finals week and my goal to obtain at least all A-'s in all my classes, I'll not be blogging this entire week. Rather, I'll focus on being a productive student writing 2 papers (10-page and 7-pages respectively) and studying for 2 final exams...Wish me luck..Hopefully, i do well on them. By God's grace i will. Off to get some beauty sleep...Been writing a paper for 3 hours/chatting with a

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So i haven't had the time to blog in the past couple of days... With Finals coming up, it's been crazy.....arrrgggghhh.....(calm down Shade)...ha-ha...So on Saturday, the Dinner with 12 strangers went well. It was really fun...We talked politics, Affirmative Action, Africa, education, and life in general. It was really fun. The host, an alumni of my school, was REALLY talkative and amazing. She

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So, this is going to be my second time writing here. Yeah...Good for me. For a second, i thought i was not going to follow up with this, but i am glad i did.Yesterday was a good day. I had class, met with my group in lab to work on our upcoming project. I also went to see RENT with "the team" at the Pantages theatre. It was so fun. I had an awesome time hanging out with the "the team" because i

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So after months of procrastination and perusing other blogs, i decided to create one for myself...Not because everyone and their mother has a blog, but because I've gotten bored writing in my diary (I last did that 2 years ago) and since I'm more often always doing something online (reading, researching, e-mailing peeps), i decided it would not be such a bad idea to have one. So there i go....

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