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There's this epiphany-like moment that I experienced while I was on vacation a few weeks ago. I've been wanting to put in into words, so here it goes ( Read more... )

So I'm sitting here at my desk with mixed emotions. My birthday is in three days. I'm excited about it, yet not completely thrilled about it. I'll be one year older and I'm not really sure how much I've accomplished during that 22nd (or is it 23rd?) year of my life. I'm still stuck at a job I'm not completely fond of. I'm not in graduate ( Read more... )

i love this song ( Read more... )

For some reason, I am in a good mood. Sunday evenings aren't always the most fun, as I'm usually dreading having to go back to work. But, my IRB was approved on Friday, and I can start getting things moving. Dinner night is also at my place tomorrow, and I am really excited about this ( Read more... )

I hate it when there's drama, and the drama is partially my fault. My biggest character flaw pertains to my inability to upset people or make them feel bad, especially if I am the one to blame. It makes me physically and emotionally sick until I know that the situation has been completely resolved. But, feeling hurt is an emotion that makes us ( Read more... )

Okay - so i'm not angry anymore. my angry moments last about 10 minutes and then disappear ( Read more... )

I am angry. Very rarely do I ever get angry, this is a difficult emotion for me to feel. But, I am angry. I guess my problem is that I'm too nice and I let people walk all over me. One of my favorite singer/songwriters is coming to town (Detroit) - Kevin Devine. He was here a few months ago, and I wasn't able to go. Before that, it was three ( Read more... )

there is this guy who lives in my apartment complex, an older man probably in his sixties or so. he is a portly little man with large black glasses and a balding head of hair which he tries to disguise with a comb-over, always wearing slacks and a white button down short sleeved shirt, as if he just got home from work. throughout the year and a ( Read more... )

January 14th, 2006. This will be a date forever etched in my memory. Mid afternoon at the hospital, crying and crying over a lifeless body connected to a billion tubes - blinking lights, beeping sounds. My mom didn't reach him fast enough - his brain had been deprived from oxygen for so long, resulting in profound brain damage. The only sign of ( Read more... )