This is friends only, and I hope I'm not embarassing you, Rielle, but I've wanted to say thanks. I've been thinking about some interactions we had in high school that I remember well and am very grateful for.

I've been struggling with depression for probably... 15-16 years now and was particularly deep in it in high school as my mom was getting ( Read more... )

In an effort to spark more creativity, I will only be using internets while at work. I will use it very sparingly at home since that is the primary method my dad and I communicate.

Au revoir.

So Tuesday night/wenesday morning I woke up with the chills and nausea. For the next 6 or 8 hours, I was sleeping and waking with either chills or sweats every hour or so, accompanied by the nausea. It went away after awhile, I think I shat a few times, and that was that. It was really scary for me since I have the fear of vomiting, and especially ( Read more... )

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Apparently there was an ice storm in Boone last night ( Read more... )

Hi, I am at Noah & Alyse's for the first time since April! Yaaaaay!

&! My brother's first day of work is in Charlotte, so I picked him up from the airport yesterday and we all hung out. Might meet up with him again today, but I'm not counting on it too much. 

I got a B in my Lit course since I decided not to do the second paper or review. Good grade for little effort ( Read more... )

I just got 10 books for $9.22 from the paperback book exchange in town.

Mother by Maxim Gorky
Madame Bovary by Flaubert
The Wisdom of the Heart by Henry Miller
Daisy Miller by Henry James
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Music ( Read more... )

Nerd nerd nerd alert.

I started The Master and Margarita by Bulgakov today. One of the first characters in it is Berlioz, named for Hector Berlioz, the composer of Symphonie Fantastique.
In the novel, another character predicts that Berlioz will be beheaded.
In Symphonie, Berlioz was inspired by the invention of the guillotine. One of the movements ( Read more... )

anyone have any spare spirals? i've got the piercing itch bad, but i've decided to try and stretch my left ear instead. it's at a 2, while my right ear is 7/16 hahaha ( Read more... )