And I'm feeling completely shafted, and pretty damn upset ( Read more... )

So it's been a really rough year for me...

I've lost six people I knew....three of which were family, two I grew up with, and one I barely knew from WKU.  As not close as I was to my grandfather and my cousin, both deaths hit me really hard.  My cousin died during Spring Break in March, and my grandfather died at the end of the summer, and I had ( Read more... )

Today, 12 October,is the seventh anniversary of Matthew Shepherd's death. MatthewShepherd was an innocent college student who was killed simply becausehe was gay. His murderers, Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson usedthe "gay-panic" defense, claiming that Matthew came on to them andtherefore they went temporarily insane and killed him. In prison ( Read more... )

My great grandmother died this morning. That makes the third relative this year, all of whom I was actually really close to at one point. So much for this quitting smoking thing... everytime this has happened, it either caused me to start smoking (Spring Break), or made me start chainsmoking again. Didn't matter how hard I tried, I chainsmoke ( Read more... )

I am ( Read more... )