I need someone to remind me how blessed I am to have the opportunity to get health insurance. Sixty dollars a month plus co pays is not a whole lot of money if I get hit by a bus. And with my luck getting hit by a bus is not something that is random and improbable. In fact I'm sure there are several people reading this right now that are nodding ( Read more... )

WOW ( Read more... )

One time I was in Roanoke and going to school and my brakes made this grinding noise and I went to a mechanic and he told me I needed all sorts of things and showed me the grinded metal that was my roter or something like that and I paid a lot of money and wanted to throw up and cry ( Read more... )

I'm not breaking out the calendar cause I don't want to remember in detail. But it's been almost a year. Almost a year ago I took a day off from work and drove to Louisville and was late and sat in the waiting room with my step dad and assorted uncles. Almost a year ago and a nurse came out and said, "You must be the daughter from Nashville, she ( Read more... )

I told my mom and she said (as if I had given her a cookie) "You're going to get your masters ( Read more... )

I like dogs. I really do. I even like Sophie the dog. Sophie the dog is a puppy. Sophie is not trained. And her dumb owners (the people who live downstairs) let her run around without a leash and then spend an hour screming "Sophie!" It makes me want to buy them a leash. Because even though I need to be awake. Even though I have a billion things to ( Read more... )

I think it's a girl thing. Like every now and then for seemingly no reason you are able to convince yourself that everyone hates you and that everything everyone says to you is somehow mean in some way. And you manage to delude yourself that everyone is talking about you behind your back. You know those days? Those weeks ( Read more... )

That moment of clarity somehow makes everything else more cloudy. It occured to me suddenly yesterday what I should be doing. What I should be doing with my life. I haven't had too terribly many moments like that recently, but they seem to be coming with some frequency now and what's nice is that for once they are connected ( Read more... )

I am still niave enough that I want a job that even when it stresses me out I still love it....

I'm in my apartment sitting on my couch, the lights are off, the tv will be off after I hear the weather, and there are about six or seven candles burning. I'm a wirl ( Read more... )