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I apologize. I suppose not having my face in the profile shot doesn't help either. How about this:
Hi, I'm the girl from your Arab-Islamic history class years ago. We used to sit in the stairwell of the UC and talk while eating yogurt and bananas. That was the semester I got a 1.0. Now I'm in a PhD program. Grades, shmades! Shmades.

So, how does one collect and reignite internal fire when years have been spent on slowly burning out? For a few years I have been using all the energy I could muster and burnt myself out on every project I though needed help. As Im sure that some of you have done. Now after a year of rest, and a few half hearted attempts at re-ignition, Im trying to collect fuel so that when I can get a spark I can make it last.
Im not trying to fight burnout. Im already there. Im still in the ashes, but Im looking around; calmly wondering where to go from here. I refuse to give up.
Unfortunately, there are time sensitive issues in front of me, and sometimes the ashes call with their soft warmth to stay a while longer.