we adopt a dog from the humane society ( Read more... )

Sex dream about Steve Zahn. Kind of disturbing. But damn if he didn't rock my world.

okay, so the whole shaving thing lasted about three weeks. the day after i would shave, when the hair started poking through my skin, my skin would get irritated and my legs would be covered in bumps, which would bleed if i barely scratched them. the result being that even though my legs were void of hair, they were covered in scabs and sores. i ( Read more... )

I'm watching the MTV show, "If You Really Knew Me," and I'll admit, I love this show. Maybe it's because I'm a teacher and I see glimpses of what students are really dealing with in their life, and see how they keep it from each other, put up fronts. Or maybe it's because I always felt misunderstood when I was in school. If you haven't seen the ( Read more... )

About 10 years ago I stopped shaving my legs and armpits. Mostly because shaving really aggravated my eczema, it just seemed easier not to do it. Partly because I started becoming disenchanted with the standard beauty ideals which are forced on women. And then became down-right pissed at them. And as time went on, a few of my friends stopped ( Read more... )

i am on spring break this week, from subbing. i am so happy to have the break, to spend time writing and creating and working on my portfolio and job searching. but i'm so tired from and of subbing. i worked the most i've worked so far last week. the only day i took off was to work on my job search/portfolio. and i think a lot of the students ( Read more... )

I don't write in here very much anymore. I haven't been journalling as much in my paper journal, either. Life is just going along. I guess I don't have much to say. I have random thoughts about becoming an adult, but I haven't formulated them into a piece of writing, yet. I started at one point, but I was comparing how I felt about things 5-10 ( Read more... )

my grandmother is "actively dying". this is a phrase which a friend of my mom's who works at a retirement home used to describe the state my grandmother is in. I saw her on Christmas, it is likely the last time I will see her ( Read more... )

I found an old list I made of things I wanted to do in my life. I hadn't looked at it in a few years, but here's all the things I checked off today:

-learn to do gynecological self exams
-become a teacher
-travel to Sweden
-go on vacation on my bike
-make my own menstrual pads
-learn how to maintain my bicycles myself
-learn spanish

I think I feel the most healthy, mentally, that I have in a long time. I feel independent, productive, balanced. I've had the greatest summer, enjoying the U.P., traveling a lot, having a lot of visitors and visiting a lot of people. I had been mentally frayed from such a long, cold, winter. Overwhelmed by school, and lonely due to only having ( Read more... )