Comforting: It's 9 AM. He wasn't expecting heels and a miniskirt.

Not Comforting: He's seen you in so much less than that anyway.

Thaaanks roomie darling.

You say I'm not safe brushing my teeth in my towel, and I laugh, and then a drunk guy who doesn't even live here stumbles in and pees in the shower I'm about to use, and I start to think, and then he comes out and realizes he's not alone, and instead of getting embarassed I make eye contact until he does ( Read more... )

 Maybe it takes me a long time to adjust, but just when I'm starting to figure out this system -- just when I'm not flustered that I ran three errands, knew all three cashiers, and was on at least a smile and fake how are you basis with all but one person I saw in the parking lot -- it's time to leave again ( Read more... )

 Among my grandmother, my aunt, my cousin's grandmother, and this crazy lady who I adore but do not recall ever seeing before last summer, all four got engaged by way of ultimatums, three are waiting for my nineteen year-old cousin to issue an ultimatum of her own, and none are aware that having a discussion about twentyfive being too old to have a ( Read more... )

Package from home: I made you cookies, here's your tuition bill, that boy you used to know was arrested, your father shot a boar.

Not to mention that other question of the guns.

My countdown is turning the opposite way.

 I'm shrinking away from writing here because it would be infinitely easier to write it all down in facebook status updates than to explain, painstakingly, the emotions I think I feel and may or may not be able to identify.

  Al: So your professor took you to dinner...twice...and offered you alcohol...and this doesn't sound strange to you?

And it still doesn't.

So basically I come here when I have something so angsty to say I know I should be ashamed to think it.

 So this one time, stats is kicking my ass, and my WPC snapped at me for talking about shots in front of her when really I was just saying stats, do you want to do stats tonight, I can do stats alone if you don't, it's been a long night I just want to do some stats and go to sleep, and I was embarassed and I shouldn't have been, she should have ( Read more... )

Iffy day ( Read more... )