Ex-boyfriend getting engaged after less than a year of dating rebound girl?

No, I'm not even going to pretend I'm supportive.

What is wrong with LJ?

I just got incredibly homesick.

*sigh* :-(

I'm still here.

There's just so much to say and no time to say it.

Let's try to live as evolving beings in the 21st century, divorcing ourselves from the pettiness and general arrogance that comes from being raised in a comfortable, middle class world where we never had to ask for anything or be expected to produce anything of merit. Let's pretend that glossing over our faults is a bad thing and that bringing the ( Read more... )

There's a radio station in Holland that plays all the music I used to listen to when I was in high school. *Sigh* Today they played Sex and Candy by Marcy Playground and I started thinking about Tabitha and Allison and Camp Arcadia and the summer of 2000 when being 15 meant I could rule the world from my balcony overlooking lake michigan...or ( Read more... )

I hate to acknowledge this, but I have about a month left at Black River ( Read more... )

How old do I look?

Seems like wherever I go, the consensus is that not only do I not look 23, the ballpark ranges from 16 (!?!?!!?) to maybe 21.

Not that I wish to look old before my time, but when you're starting out as a teacher, the last thing you want is for people to think you're the same age as your students.

During the night, I woke up thinking I was in my bedroom at home. That's the first time I've done that here. I've never understood whether that was to mean I feel at home in my apartment now, or if by being mistaken, that no place will ever truly be home.

The wind is howling rather ominously outside my window. Soundtrack a la Edgar Allan Poe ( Read more... )