First off, let me say, I am not in any way looking for pity by posting this. I just wanted to write about how I am really feeling tonight, and this IS how I am really feeling ( Read more... )

TODAY it's like pea soup outside. Yesterday it was more like a bean porridge ( Read more... )

Holy crap it was foggy today ( Read more... )

So this has been a pretty wild week, weather-wise ( Read more... )

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Well, once again I don't really know how to start this thing. I don't wanna come across whiny or needy here. But I also don't want to try and put an overly positive spin on things, as I am wont to do. I'd like to just give a fair and truthful assessment of where my life is at the moment. Here goes...

( So I decided to leave my program here at Purdue... )

I don't really know how to start this thing off, and I'm kinda hoping that I won't have to go into a whole long schpiel here, but the gist of the situation is this ( Read more... )

Sometimes, I just don't think I am a very good person. At least, I am certainly not the kind of person that I wish I was. I do try, but I keep managing to make these gigantic messes of my life. Do other people do that, too, or am I really as bad at coping with life as I think I am ( Read more... )

I swear to gawd, if one more person tells me what a waste of a brilliant academic mind it is for me to leave grad school, I'm gonna go ape shit.

Yes, I am bloody good at this stuff. That doesn't mean I have to do it. Unlike many academics, I am competent in the real world, too.

Goddammit.

I don't know whether to laugh or to cry ( Read more... )