It is Oct 9th.... an hour to Oct 10th. 
My dad from Ethiopia called me to remind me about the date.

I couple of friends both from my writing community and elsewhere also reminded me about the date.

Feeling nervous at the expectations that I myself have build up. 
It never feels...

With just 21 minutes to spare, I am writing today's post. 

Quiet a start to the weekend.
I find myself being lazy and enjoying life lately. 
A lot of what I want to do is in progress. And I the business of September is making me take a step back now. ...

Today is Oct 7th. 
According to the last announcement from Medium, we were going to hear who are the winners of the challenge today. 

I have been all over Medium.com. I searched for MWC(medium writing challenge) winners both in google and in Medium itself. It appears a bunch of people...

The first year at the college was tough. The seniors told us that the purpose of the first year is to weed out a lot of the students that would likely not make it the four years. Due to the limited resources, high competition was how people's futures were determined. ...

I have been sneezing a lot today.
Feeling a little weak.

And now - a headache is building momentum at the base of my head. 

I checked the usual things and all are ok.
The only thing that this could be is...

A regular cold.
Or the Corona Virus.

If it is a cold, I know...

Once I started going to college in September, I didn't have much time for letters. I was living on campus and experiencing a lot of new things all at once. The idea of pen pals seemed tedious all at once. 

However, there was one pen friend that told me something...

I kept in touch with a lot of the pen pals I got that summer. I kept up for months even after starting to go to college. The one peculiar thing was that there were no females. All of the people that wrote to me were male. 

Thinking back, there...

It was a thing then. 
Pen Pals.

I don't remember when I found out about it but I was curious. Right after high school, I had a few months of break before the school leaving exam results are announced nationwide. And after that, the University placement. So there was nothing else...

I am writing this to keep my streak. Purely for the streak. 
Had an appointment that rendered me useless for the day. If I don't use this small window of opportunity to get something down, I will lost my streak. And I can't do that. 

I have a lot of...

After some deep thoughts and ongoing health reasons, I have given myself a 7 day extension on a self imposed deadline of Oct 3rd. 

I am adding 7 additional days to my deadline to add some "features" to my goal. 

I know. I know. That takes away from the validity...