Illegibly K.M. West

Category: Musings

  • This is Important. It’s all Important.

    When I was a teenager, I kept a blog on Xanga (along with just about everyone I knew). It was kaleigh_the_fallen_leaf. Unbeknownst to most, I had a couple of other blogs as well for my more “personal” thoughts. This is hilarious in retrospect because as I read all the things we wrote when we thought…

  • Facts 11-20

    And for the first time I feel as though I am reborn In my mind Recast as child and mystic sage. I’ve been studying up on the psychology of weight loss, and something very interesting revealed itself to me today. Random Fact #11: I use food for protection. See, at some point in my young…

  • Owe.

    I owe you the second half of my list along with an apology. I got lost somewhere along the way.

  • Getting to know you…

    …getting to know all about you. Getting to like you, getting to know you like me. Getting to notice suddenly I’m bright and cheery because of all the beautiful and new things I’m learning about you day by day. We sang that in my kindergarten graduation performance. That’s right, I have a head like steel…

  • Just a Citrix Analyst lost in a world of Okies.

    Well, it would appear that Just OKaleigh is here to stay! I received my first assignment today (as noted in the photograph) and, of my top 7 choices, it was my number 1 (hence the goofy grin). I’m truly thrilled for the position. It’s going to be challenging but fun, and I’ll get a chance…

  • Find out why

    “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” –Mark Twain There are easily a million reasons why I love Mark Twain, but not a single one of them has any part in my appreciation of these words. It’s hard to imagine my…

  • Priorities

    Almost every morning, my alarm goes off, at which point I make an important yet negligible decision: I either reset my alarm for an expertly calculated wake up call sweet spot (rigorously developed by taking the square root of the number of hours I slept subtracted from 8 and multiplied by the number of things…

  • I don’t care what you think, as long as it’s about me.

    Every day, maybe even on a minute-to-minute basis, my opinion as to whether or not I care what people think shifts, on a spectrum, from anywhere on the far right to far left (no political implications meant, so don’t read into that). Sometimes I even contradict myself based on what I want to believe and…

  • Update!

    Oh! Minor update: So I’ve started looking at houses a little to buy in the event I end up here in Bartlesville. So far, I like what I’m seeing! The jist is basically if you’re willing to settle for older homes, you can get unnecessary square footage. This is exciting for me, obviously, because I’m…

  • Finish what you started.

    Somehow, there’s nothing going on a whole lot going on all at once. This is what Daniel refers to as me “putting too much on my plate,” but sometimes my brain goes off on these tangents and thoughts just kind of flow freely. Here’s the thought process: I love beautiful things, particularly art and music.…