I talked with my therapist about going on an SSRI, and she recommended Lexapro, so I'm going to give it a shot and see how it goes. The way she described it (it keeps the lows from getting too low) sounds pretty great to me. For now I've mentally committed to taking them while going through this ordeal- we'll see how things are once I'm on the ( Read more... )

Here's a different direction from yesterday's post. Terminal illness is strange because after living with it for a while, you can't help but think about the future. I think in my case, these thoughts are me trying to brace myself for what's to come. You drift into thought every now and then about what life will be like. What will it be like to be ( Read more... )

I got an email from LiveJournal a few days ago, sending some sort of gift for having a journal for 21 years. I'm not sure what the gift was (Russian malware?), but it's crazy to think this thing has been up for 21 years. Granted, it's been dormant for the past 12, but hey. I read back through a few entries- college, meeting my wife, studying in ( Read more... )

That's pretty much it, I just ruined the surprise with my subject. I have a 3 hour math class every day for 8 days before school starts to "refresh" my math skills. I put refresh in quotes because I never know Lagrange's formula or whatever in the first place. I'm aces at adding shit up, but today the greek symbol lambda was introduced to the mix ( Read more... )

Well, decisions were finally made a couple weeks ago, we are headed to DC. Abby's flying up the beginning of June to sign her contract, I just registered for classes, and we're looking for a place to live. All I know is that I want to have a nice kitchen and outdoor space of some sort. And also to be near fun stuff for drinking and then walking. ( Read more... )

A day spent in the sun, barbecuing, drinking beer with friends and playing backyard games has got to be one of those classic all-time great things.

When I was in fourth grade, I somehow managed to save up $130. This was back when I'd get 2 dollars a week for chores and getting $20 for your birthday was a big deal. Now I imagine most kids would feel slighted if they only got $20 in a card from a relative. Anyway, after saving for months, and poring over French video game magazines (we were ( Read more... )

Last November (I guess last last Nov, '07), I was sitting in the Hong Kong airport and I noticed that a lot of girls were wearing boots and skirts. In fact, probably %90 of girls who walked by were wearing boots and skirts. I didn't think much of it, a fad, a change from the previous fad of all girls wearing those flat shoes that look like ballet ( Read more... )

I also applied to the University of Arizona, but can you say safety school? It was my afraid of not getting in to other schools school. I got in, but yesterday I also got an email from the Peace Corps fellowship people there, offering me 18k a year in scholarships, plus the opportunity to do an assistantship. I don't even know if the school costs ( Read more... )

I was kind of browsing over old entries earlier this week, reading little snippets from my life circa 2002, which were surprisingly interesting. It's so weird to be able to look back on yourself via text and observe all the ways you've changed over the past 6 or 7 years. An incredible amount has happened during that period of time, probably my ( Read more... )