My roommate's soccer friends are here and there's maybe 15 people in our kitchen. Why am I more interested in reading a book than standing in my kitchen with all these people? I've never been comfortable in a room of strangers. I have no idea what to talk about, and no idea who to look at. Worse, I have trouble understanding some people when there' ( Read more... )

I feel like the last year of my life, I let some things slide. Important things. So my resolution this year is to write. I resolve to have written my book by the end of the year. And no cramming it in in the last month either, I learned my lesson in autobiography class. Write the majority of a 40 page piece in one night, it's bound to have some bad ( Read more... )

I wrote a letter to my friend Robin few months ago about our generation. She had recently told me all about her plans to become a Waldorf school teacher, working in after school programs in the meantime. Here is an excerpt ( Read more... )

I am thrilled to report that I sat down just now and wrote the first paragraph of my memoir about shelter work. Finally got that ball rolling. It's a lot easier now that I'm not there. I can step back and look at the whole thing. Plus, it was hard thinking about the difficult parts while I was living them. Enough stress just going to work every day ( Read more... )

In no particular order, neither chronological nor significance ( Read more... )

Better post something before my LJ account gets thrown into oblivion, right? Well, Brandi and I have just moved to a whole new state. She's going to grad school and I am looking to become a human sexuality counselor... Just as soon as a get off my butt, finish up my "vacation," and get out some applications. Ah well, at least I have the internet ( Read more... )

Haven't written in quite a while, and here I am talking about the same topic as last time. We were scheduled for some sort of mysterious "HR policy change meeting" this morning, which I was totally grumpy about because I had to come in 15 minutes early and lord knows how I love the morning. (Not to mention Wednesday is dancing night, so Thursday is ( Read more... )

Transgendered Remembered ( Read more... )

1. Do you still talk to the first person you fell the hardest for ( Read more... )

I'm now dating Waterloo, Ontario. Sadly, it's a long distance thing ( Read more... )