What a way to culminate my first full week of little or no stress by not being able to get to sleep last night. After being ousted from my room while my roommate (the good one) had company (no - not that kind of company), I went to watch VH1’s most recent “Behind the Music” on TLC. I’d seen it at least once before, and of course I remember vividly ( Read more... )

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When I flip back through the archives of my journal, I realize how simple my life was a year ago. My biggest worry was Molly jumping out of a window again. And my biggest challenge was finding more mess to meddle in where some of my other friends were concerned. I didn’t have to worry about “real-life” issues. Parents were paying for essentially ( Read more... )

You Are 26 Years Old

26

Under 12: You are a kid at heart. You still have an optimistic life view - and you look at the world with awe ( Read more... )

            Sometimes it just doesn’t matter how good life good is, and how good your circumstances are. There’s always a little sliver of a chance to go and fuck it up. It really doesn’t matter how many red flags and little voices intervene and try to knock some sense into you. When you’ve been given free will, you use it… and do really dumb ( Read more... )

The last few weeks since I’ve had a reliable Internet connection have been rather tumultuous. One of my roommates moved out and took with him the TV and the Internet, leaving the rest of us to fend for ourselves. I’d started classes and had fallen in love with the lecture course I’m in titled “evil in the 20th century.” I think it’s a fascinating ( Read more... )

Cancer
If you can manage to get through whatever the universe has decided to toss your way at the moment, which will be considerably interesting, you can get through anything. So if your boss or an equally intimidating authority figure happens to ask you to drive 532 miles on your day off to deliver a package, you'll be up for it -- and you'll grab ( Read more... )

PATRICK P is for Perky A is for Arty T is for Terrific R is for Rare I is for Irresistible C is for Chipper K is for Kind
What Does Your Name Mean?

Yesterday morning, I left my comfortable bedroom-turned-aunt's-office-and-gallery to come back to New York City.

At home, I live 10 minutes away from LAX, so my family tends to take that for granted, and therefore, I never seem to get to the airport when I should. My flight left at 9:00 AM and I insisted on being at the airport at 7:00. After a ( Read more... )

Cancer
The heavens are conspiring to bring you even closer to your friends than you have been -- which is really saying something. In fact, you could end up in a long heart-to-heart with someone you've been dying to make peace with, and whether you're delivering or accepting the apology, you can rest assured that it will take. Then for the fun part ( Read more... )