The more unhappy I get with working in retail the more I look around and daydream about master's degrees and such. It has become clear that the only degrees that interest me require that I take the damn GRE. I am HIGH anxiety and terrible with tests I would need to take a study course...Columbus State does offer this but its during the day-during ( Read more... )

So I got a message from Dain today letting me know he's coming back to Columbus ( Read more... )

The last couple years aside I had gone YEARS without ever going to or needing to go the doctor. I was a pretty healthy kid-I got the occasional ear infection that required a quick trip to Children's Hospital (as it was essentially right behind our house)for bubblegum flavored medicine and that was that. My mom has always been big on teaching us ( Read more... )

 It was an amazing week in poetry beginning with Joel's feature Monday night and followed by a Win and You're in Slam where I got to try out a new poem, Rose Smith's fantastic feature at First Draft and it all ended last night in Cincy with a show by the Whirlwind Company. Mindy Nettifee was infact as promised an amazing poet and a super sweet ( Read more... )

I am a Valentines Day convert.
Used to be a hater-but I couldn't really resist the cute cards and candy and sending them off randomly to my friends forever.
I did also feel very lucky to be someone's Valentine this year. he sent flowers to my job. pink ones. :-)

My job gave all of us little heart shaped ID tag holders that say shoe lover-so BEVERLY (brags2bitches  ( Read more... )

 I've been lazy....this is my problem with winter..it drains me completely...makes me want to crawl into bed and stay ( Read more... )

 Rose Smith asked me about doing a feature at Rumba last year... I told her that there way NO WAY I had 40 minutes worth of poetry...this year I could not decide what poems to do....I have been head down working hard this past year and I have seen time passing but I had not been aware of the progress until I recently looked back. I always chastise  ( Read more... )

-I got a diamond ring for Christmas. Okay so its not a big rock or anything..its a diamond chip..lol...I have never really been interested in owning diamonds of any kind but my mother gave me a ring that belonged to my paternal Grandmother-whom I never met-apparently she gave the ring to my mother when I was a baby but it never fit my mom's hand-my ( Read more... )

After a day of work where every third person yelled and said I ruined their Christmas I came home in a foul mood ( Read more... )

I have lived in my apartment for 3 years now and I have never really thrown a party. I take care and time to decorate my apartment just so and no one ever really sees it unless I post photos or they help me carry in groceries. I also decorate for Christmas every year-put up my pink tree-string lights around the living room-hang stockings-etc and ( Read more... )