My volunteering time is preventing other volunteering stuffs that I want to be a part of, and I got a planner and wrote every thing down and it is full until march and I am still crazy and have not slept since approximately last wednesday, six days ago because my brain will never settle down and I feel like I am losing track of people. I have ( Read more... )

I need a planner. I am to the point in my life where I need to write shit down and my phone calendar won't cut it. I have balked at writing stuff down since I was tiny, and generally I won't forget things, and the most I ever did during school was to write on my hand something about bringing a permission slip back ( Read more... )

Momma's not coming.

The Cincinnati airport has my momma and my tiny cousins, and will not put them where they need to be. And no, it's not because of the snow, it's because the pilots and staff had been flying too long. My family and 500 other people are attempting to fly standby today, just from that plane. I'm worrying myself sick. I've done six loads of laundry ( Read more... )

Every Thursday for the next year, I'll be in court for criminal justice advocacy. Every Thursday afternoon, I'll see forty-four cases. Last night, I slept a full eight hours for the first time in who knows how long, but I thrashed around with dreams of being a make-up artist who had a talent for hiding bruises on women so they could survive ( Read more... )

This year, I am steeped in what falling in love for the first time was. It's the shorter days and daylight that does it. Long limbs turned over one another, long blonde hair on both of us, stretched over what was endless afternoons of lying to my mother about where I was, and constantly being late to everything because I couldn't pull myself out ( Read more... )

This week:

I need more time to cook nice dinners for myself and just a little less time trying to wrap my head around a woman getting beaten every 15 seconds, or someone being sexually assaulted every 2 minutes.

Goodness sakes I want to save the world.

So let me tell you ( Read more... )

Half a bottle of white wine, and dancing in my underpants and my apartment to myself for the first time in 9 days and a day off and Robert Blake in my speakers and Less Than Jake tonight and so much sunshine this week and more protein in my diet and Coffeefest geekery this weekend and meeting new people and thinking about school and having a home ( Read more... )

My friend Jordan is here from West Virginia, asleep in my bed so I can wear myself out and wonder the rest of the apartment until it is unbearable for me to be awake any longer ( Read more... )