Another step closer to my goals. Accepted to the nursing program again. hundreds of applicants, 65 slots. I'm glad I made it back in, now I need to figure out how to make this happen. I don't have anyone to bankroll my education. I just have the hands and the back my parents gave me, and the pride I earned by watching my father ( Read more... )

Bridges are burning, casting shadows over freshly-turned earth under which several hatchets lie buried ( Read more... )

Forged time and again against the worst life can throw at me. I pretend sometimes that the life I live isn't worse than what the average person goes through. Sometimes I pretend, for the sake of calming my fury in the middle of bad nights, that those who have wronged me go through their share of trials. You would think I'd be too old for fairy ( Read more... )

Just another guy, living another day in his nondescript life.

Awake hours before dawn yet again. The same reoccurring precursor to a terrible day. I think it really says a lot about me that, with one recent exception, I only ever remember the dreams that make me wish for nothingness ( Read more... )

I feel the need to open each entry with a bit about how I'm related to others in how I feel. "We all deal with things", "Everyone has hard times", ect, ect. This habit is unfortunate, considering when I come here, it's usually because I feel completely detached from everyone. Opening with a relative statement, and then trying to express how I feel ( Read more... )

"You couldn't have just made me any happier.. and I KNOW! It's so amazing.... we're the greatest people ever.."

Greg says:
We're like mother theresa and ghandi chatting on msn!

Life has been interesting for a few weeks ( Read more... )

Here's to all the cold-hearted users of the world.
Human leaches, that for too long have gotten a bad rap.
It boils down to Darwinistic selective evolution at its finest.

When the host fails to notice the parasite before its drained dry, who is to blame?

I blame the aztecs.

I came here intending to vent; to use this decrepit, under-used journal to get rid of some of my demons ( Read more... )