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    Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
    11:34 am
    "I'm not an exceptional man so I can deal with things the way they are. But I am the best possible Arnold Byrnes."
    -Arnold Byrnes
    Thousand Clowns

    ZELDA WINDWAKER YOU ARE MY ONLY FRIEND...until Friday.

    Current Music: "Yes Sir, That's my Baby"
    to Perkins
    Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
    10:41 pm
    Soup of the Day: Minestrone/Cream of Broccoli
    Is anyone else incredible entertained by the Jim Beam Bourbon commercial with the Rent-A-Puppy stand?

    Working at a restaurant all night makes me feel like I have already eaten. Something about scraping half eaten food dripping with coagulating sauces into a garbage can from 4-8pm to makes you feel incredibly full. But I eat anyway because I know I'll want to later.

    Since Saturday night, it feels very little has ACTUALLY changed. I am still living in Highland Park with little if any intention to move back in with any of the several generous offers of housing (for which I thank: Rachael, Mrs. Phillips and family). I still do dishes just about every night and I enjoy the subsequent arrangement of a daily back rub. I still hear/say I love you at least 2/3 times a day and enjoy about twice the hugs. But I feel blank, cold and dull because I really don't know HOW to act. I have never been a roommate to anyone but my brother (all my life mind you until a few months ago). I had gotten really good at being a girlfriend quite frankly, and I miss it already. I am an altruist and feel my best when I am needed and can share my love with others. This whole new situation is merely a chance to channel it elsewhere.

    Friends, family and my work.

    Current Mood: I'm done crying.
    Current Music: 'Carolina' Ben Gibbard
    to Perkins
    Thursday, May 14th, 2009
    4:04 pm
    Somebody's a GN!
    Yesterday I took my nursing final. My FINAL nursing final before the boards. But I was more excited about my music professor inviting me to study flute with his wife than I was about being a Graduate Nurse. Rather than discuss the test questions with my fellow nursing graduates I told them stories of Johannes Brahms, Hector Berlioz and Franz Liszt, just a few of the people who I find infinitely more fascinating that Florence Nightingale. But that's just me.

    Current Mood: chipper
    Current Music: Claire de Lune -Debussy
    to Perkins
    Saturday, February 21st, 2009
    4:34 pm
    First of many...
    RUTGERS APPLICANT STAUS:
    Mason Gorss School of the Arts: Fall 2009 Not Admitted.

    Can't say I wasn't surprised. I had been warned by people who had been there already. I can still appreciate the whole process of applying and auditioning as an experience toward the "next time". I guarantee there WILL be a next time. Several more if I have anything to say about it. So, it's not a defeat. It's not a success. What is it? It is a chance to learn and improve. I have never been one to take criticism well (unfortunately), but this is a good opportunity to start. I wasn't good ENOUGH. Doesn't mean that I am not good.

    The fact of the matter is, I was looking forward to having a set date for turnover. I was excited about flipping the nursing program the proverbial finger as I walked for the pinning ceremony and shove off to bigger and better things. I hate to think that time I could have spent practicing was glutted over to nursing. In doing the "smart thing", a little bit of myself and who I really am was sapped out of me. Most of what made me feel fulfilled and excited about life has been absent for some time. Being "smart" about how you go about setting up your dominoes in life isn't always the happiest route you can take nor will it usually be the easiest.

    -I'll deal with this little by little.

    Current Mood: rejected
    Current Music: Cecile Chaminade: Concertino
    to Perkins
    Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
    12:29 pm
    Still Smiling.
    Every now and then, you forget the things that are important, your happiest day, the people that love you most, and most of all what makes you a good person. But it is really easy to recall the delightful feelings each evokes in you when simply sitting back and thinking about them.

    I haven't seen this white little text box in a long, long time, but I assure you all I am doing well enough for myself. Nursing school has yet to beat me into the ground and I am still standing with my 3.0 average. Things are on the horizon of change (actually not a pun toward the president elect), but a reference to the course of my life. I am within a year of getting my nursing degree and hopefully entering music school and getting my own place. Financial issues regrettably cloud my perfect view of living my life the way I want to. But it's just money. There's tons of it everywhere, getting it is just the hard part.

    I cannot say I am dissatisfied with the way my life's path has lead me because quite frankly we forget that it is ourselves that lead our life and not the other way around. Our decisions and choices in certain situations shift and shape our lives.

    Your most important legacy is the influences you scatter along life's journey...so make them matter.

    Current Mood: curious
    Current Music: Move -Miles Davis
    to Perkins
    Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
    9:05 pm
    Life is a honeymoon everyday.
    You've got to appreciate the small things in life: how piercingly blue the sky is, how soothing the rain is after a hot day, the return of all those talkative birds in the morning, the limitless possibilities of a beautiful Summer day. It's just beginning. I realized just how much I [know] in relation to what I have to do to be happy, but like I said, it's not easy. But I have decided to put on my optimist pants (literally and figuratively) and face the world a little differently. I know how to keep myself from getting too anxious or frustrated in most situations and I know who I can count on if I can't in those not so easily manageable ones.

    I am just momentarily overjoyed and for an instant I can completely grasp what Kevin Spacey's character Lester Burnham meant when he said: "but it's hard to stay mad, when there's so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once, and it's too much, my heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst... And then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to it, and then it flows through me like rain and I can't feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life..."

    It's really a wonderful way to capture exactly what I mean because a few hours ago I may have felt all those emotions like disappointment, discouragement, jealousy, anger and even sadness, but now...now I feel suddenly overtaken by a simple sweep of my mind that occurs right before I think of what to write to you all and I am not in the least bit dissatisfied with the result.

    Current Mood: happy
    Current Music: "Bitter-sweet Symphony"
    1 trip| to Perkins
    Monday, May 5th, 2008
    8:11 pm
    Someday We'll Find It
    Since late April, I have taken a page out of the various Nursing Textbooks that I am (more or less) forced to read and tried a little non-pharmacologic methods to reduce anxiety. Here's the sad and yet not so eluding truth, they actually worked. Well, I really can't say that in confidence quite yet. See, Not only is it merely five days into May, but my life has been relatively low-key in the stress department. Plus, I have a whole bunch of fantastic to look forward to. School ends in a little more than less than a week (it makes sense, read it again). I just got a raise on my already secured Summer job at the BYC (from $7.50 to the traditional $10.00 that everyone else was payed in the past). I'm really not going to let the fact that I had to work my bum off for two years to get equal pay get me down about it either. ON TOP OF THAT, I have a second job lined up with the Financial Aid Department at OCC and if that's not enough to rake in the Moolah, I have a friend from my nursing class who is tossing my name around at the hospital she's working at.

    So, taken all around, it's my turn to be the Sugar Daddy!

    In current events, my last test went well enough to land my average for Nursing II at an 80.8 and that's nothing to sneeze at (that's such an odd phrase). Cherry Blossom Day...

    Now, for those of you who don't know...that's when those fluffy pink trees that lose all their flower petals in one day and all you have to do is swat at a low hanging branch and voila...you're pinking them out of your bra three days later (mind you, you showered - and it's a different bra).

    Amy brought Penny (who will literally be pooping flowers for days) and since Desiree had Desiree problems we took it to her doorstep, literally.

    Holy Crap! It's 8:30PM already? That means it's time for a little something I like to call, "my sad evening routine before I go to bed." I know, sounds awesome, right?

    Current Mood: Damn you GAS PRICES!
    Current Music: "Going to Go Back There Someday" Gonzo
    2 trips| to Perkins
    Thursday, May 1st, 2008
    8:34 pm
    More Than Okay
    I've read the textbooks.
    I've reviewed the power points.
    I've written the notes.
    I've rewritten them short hand.
    I've made flash cards.
    I've made cute little acronyms.
    I've read the ATI review book.
    I've taken the practice tests.

    And now...I've watched the DVD. There is no other way I can think to get this mountain of information into my head for Monday and the following week. I have my last Mental Health Test on May 5th, and my cumulative final on the 12th. Here's where your opinion of me my change. I know I'll do okay. I know I'll at least get that 75 I need to move on to the next grueling semester...but I want to do more than okay.

    I want to do my best.

    Current Mood: Obsessed with Muppets
    Current Music: "Rainow Connection"
    2 trips| to Perkins
    Friday, March 14th, 2008
    6:11 pm
    It's March...if you didn't know
    So it's March, in case you haven't noticed and not only does that mean yet another spread of yet another awkward Asian Bikini Girl on my brother's free calendar from China King Buffet, BUT...

    SPRING BREAK!!! No school! For almost two weeks! AH! So several things are jumping in to take the place of demanding my time that school has temporarily been excused from. Things such as: Beginning rehearsals for CHECK PLEASE "TAKE 2" as performed by the OCC Speech and Theatre Club; the Final weeks of Mistress Pan Rehearsal (Peter Pan at the Strand); Work at the FInancial Aid office (which remians open); Reading for the Mental Health Rotation of Nursing school!...

    So all in all, a good time, But I'm looking to diversify from what I HAVE TO DO, with a little of WHAT WOULD I LIKE TO DO...so I will hopefully ctach some of you in the drift of this lovely Spring Break! ENJOY YOURSELVES!

    Current Mood: content
    Current Music: Muse "Absolution"
    2 trips| to Perkins
    Thursday, January 17th, 2008
    3:23 pm
    Piano Problems
    Music is important to me. I just love the way certain instruments sound, how they can be so very very versatile. I've played the flute for a while now and what always bothered me about that particular instrument was that it didn't really stand on its own. You can't sing while playing the flute. You have to work really hard to even look cool playing the flute...let's face it, I've yet to perfect the power-slide whilst I play the flute.

    Artists like Sufijan Stevens make me feel quite incompetent, well...most all famous musicians make me feel like I'm just putzing around on my little tin whistle for 14 years (give or take a few months). And regardless of whatever compliments I get, I'm not where I should be after 14 years. I haven't played with an organized group in just about two years. Granted I had to railroad my plans to be a famous musician to lose my mind in the medical profession, but looking back...did I ever really stand a chance? I am a flautist. In any orchestral setting they've had their fill of pipe-toting talent which makes it that much harder to get into an accredited instrumentalist group. Plus...there is no "I" in flute. There's a flu and a lute and even a elf, but no I. It's all about a collaborative sound. A flute is always that instrument which makes guest appearances in random songs like, "Do The Hustle".

    The tragedy here is that I was so damn certain that music was my future. Plus, it was the only thing I had done consistently throughout my life. I was sitting in the guidance counselors office with my parents discussing my application to Julliard. It was never sent. It never really had a chance. It was really just a dream of mine. Heh, I didn't even really know how I was going to achieve something great, and it must have been the first time in my life I didn't have a plan and wasn't scared by it. I was just so sure, so determined. What happened?

    I'm not happy with nursing. It is a fascinating practice and profession, but the schooling is brutal, unrealistically challenging, apathetic, and overwhelming. The staff is judgmental, and sure enough as I go along so are my peers. You have limited internal resources. It's really a "do it yourself" education with a spin of "tough shit". For instance, I live two decent sized blocks away from Community Medical Center. Now, for our clinical days in school, we are assigned to go to a hospital and practice in a real world setting. Last semester, I was in fact placed at CMC. But this semester...I was assigned to Jersey Shore Medical...IN NEPTUNE. There is no logic behind that. But when I asked for replacement to CMC, all I got was a"we don't do that, read the student nurses handbook." You know what I did and nowhere in that pretentiously dignified manual did it say that I would have to put up with (let along pay for) wave after wave of bureaucratic bullshit to join some elite club of bitchy women with god complexes just to add the initials R.N. to my name. Okay? I am this close to just calling it quits...this close to just slamming the book and saying, "You know what, I'm done."

    Current Mood: irate
    Current Music: "The Heart of Life" John Mayer
    2 trips| to Perkins
    Wednesday, January 9th, 2008
    6:33 pm
    One Meal a Day
    For the last three days, I have been getting up late, doing ym best to organize the house, running out to Ocean County College to review for my re-entry exam as A NURSING 2 STUDENT! Then, burning out to Scott's to see him. All the while, it's 4:30 and I have not eaten all day. My stomach has probably retracted to where my eyes and my stomach are actually of equal size. The problem right now is...it's 6:35 and I will admit, it is day four of my "one meal a day" accidental diet and I have yet to eat a thing, but freakishly enough, I am not hungry. I always used to joke about being unintentionally anorexic, but like I said, I was JOKING.

    SOLUTION: Well, however I may feel about food right now, it's clear I have no idea how my body feels and I'm just going to stuff food in myself. Better to do something after that step of realization than to just type about it anyway.

    Current Mood: hungry?
    Current Music: "Waitin' on the World to Change" John Mayer
    to Perkins
    Monday, October 29th, 2007
    8:26 pm
    Flying off the Handle
    Tonight was the first night that I have ever been actually afraid of losing my mind. That there was very little stopping me from losing all sense I had and just exist in one continual scream of nonsense. I have spent so much time away from trying to function at home with a full house: Mom doing homework with Pete, Willie and friends playing video games, Mom baby-talking to Nutty, Mom yelling and screaming at Pete, then at me for "forcing my problems with my work onto everybody else." The irony of that situation just makes me want to reach down my throat and rip out my vocal cords so I could just scream without being heard.

    It's just simple math. I CAN do this, but I CAN'T with all this commotion. I work so well in soliyude and focus beyond what I thought myself capable...but not like this...not like this. I really just need to take a break and get away...but I'm running out of time.

    Current Mood: nauseated
    Current Music: I can't even think let alone hear music
    1 trip| to Perkins
    Wednesday, October 24th, 2007
    8:07 pm
    One year ago...
    A year ago I went to Fright Fest 2006 and kept someone very special warm. A year ago I got lost for hours in the Arboretum and didn't worry a bit because I was having the time of my life. And one year ago I said yes to an eager question that would eventually lead to the most loving year of my life...yet. I got everything I ever wanted a year ago and one year later, I get more than I ever would have imagined. I love you Scott and I appreciate everything you do or even attempt to do as you do for me.

    Current Mood: loved
    Current Music: "Intervention" The Arcade Fire
    to Perkins
    Saturday, July 21st, 2007
    12:13 pm
    Cameo Update
    A commercial ad about phosphorescent orange liquid horses that make cars go faster...boredom has sunken to an entertaining level of almost amusing. What I feel I have to say is that this Summer has been both pleasant and trying. It's not over yet so there is most definitely hope. I have a small to-do list before September including: clinician-approved physical; six flags season pass; figures for Speech and Theater Club;
    books; that of course entails money for books; et al.

    I would never dream in a million years that once Summer had arrived that I would be almost enthusiastic about the beginning of this fall semester. Granted I am not even remotely hoping it will come earlier, I thoroughly enjoy the limited ease of the Summer, but I will not throw a mock funeral come September.

    Things have been really smooth-running. Boredom hasn't really reared it's ugly head. There's always something to do around here contrary to popular belief. The ice cream festival is today, I can always go sailing, bike riding, running, swimming. I can start packing up the things I don't use everyday to further the reality of my fantasy of moving out. All in due time, due time. I have money. I actually have things I have to do. Which is why I will be off. Au revoir!

    Current Mood: amused
    Current Music: "Vanilla Milkshake" -SL
    1 trip| to Perkins
    Monday, May 14th, 2007
    9:17 am
    In Regards...
    Being in love does change a person...in ways I guess it catalyses growth. Perhaps this is because when this happens, you start imagining, where am I going to be in such and such amount of years? A lot of teenagers I know are having a bit of a quarter life crisis. They feel like they aren't doing anything with their lives...some are perfectly okay with it, afterall, life is short so keep it sweet. (Carly Booker's senior quote: Live like you are going to die today, dream like you are going to live forever.) Doing stupid, wacky things is fine...when there is time for it. Cherry Blossoms was just badly placed in the midst of all-important finals...I mean, come on, who wants to bomb their final so they can enjoy a day of swatting at trees. Last year, we had nothing better to do. That's just it...better things to do, more important things to do. Finals, school assignments, work, sleep, taking care of people you hold a committment to. I'm not only talking about Scott, although it may seem that way (things aren't always as they seem), I'm also talking mostly about Pete. He has got it so rough when noone is around but my mother or/and Nello. Seeing that kind of unfair, debasing mistreatment has its own way of coercing me to grow up a bit. So, I don't think Scott's playing the only hand in why I have changed. As a matter of fact, I have said that many teenagers feel they are stagnating and quite frankly, how many of THEM are dating Scott or even in love? Growing up may have its dark days but taken all around, sometimes it can be something to look forward to.

    I remember when I was with you guys, Desi and Amy, in the mall and we were just laughing our asses off about on thing or another, probably that cell phone sign in the rest area, and I said let's never stop doing this...let's never suppress ourselves so we can fit more snuggly into society. Maybe I have gone back on those words, and maybe I haven't, but I don't feel I have. It's just that I also don't suppress my fear, my anxiety, my melodramatic tendencies to write down-trodden livejournal posts. Either way, I know that I've grown up a bit/ a lot since high school, But in doing so, I've gained a little more control over my life and I do not regret that happening. I'm sorry that we aren't the trio that we've always seemed to be as of late, but Desi, it's unavoidable...you, Joana and Heather...what happened when Willie came into the picture? Plus, there are times where I am sitting right at home in good old TR and I do that all day. Then you give me a call, Scott and ask to do something, so I go over to your house. That's just the way it seems to work. Amy and Desi, thanks for calling last night to hang out, but I was in Toms River all day until 7:30pm. We are just on the wrong time tables. Easily fixable.

    Current Mood: excited
    Current Music: Consequence of Sound" Regina Spektor
    5 trips| to Perkins
    Friday, May 11th, 2007
    12:22 pm
    Cherry Blossoms Fall, and don't get up
    So I am now the president of the OCC Speech and Theatre Club. The voting process was a borderline joke (at least for the presidency...it WAS a joke for Sec/Treasurer). I'm not nervous or stressed about it. But I've been in a position of "authority" dealing with a theatre based group before and both me and Sam were humiliated, ignored and then accused as not being good leaders. So I guess in a way I am just concerned with that reoccuring, seeing as nobody controls college students, not even other college students (especially not other college students). I know I can do a good job when it comes to getting things done...it's just I don't think a spoon will keep order at meetings...they certainly didn't work before. All it lead to was everyone pointing at whoever had the spoon and yelling "SPOON!" I'm really relying on the fact that the majority of people did in fact vote for me thus a majority / if not all, support me.

    So since I am not taking Summer classes, I have decided that other than working my ass off to pay for books next semester (NURS 175 - roughly around 700 dollars!), I will put together pliable, flexible charts and guidelines...much like the way the Summer before my Senior year was spent. I will compose a contact sheet that way everyone has everyone's number and what not...I just have to get used to not having to write everything down...I'm not a Secretary anymore.

    Outside of school. Cherry Blossom Day...a day dedicated to smacking the ripe petals off of the white cherry blossom trees outside the OC Library. I was so excited. Unfortunately...I once again hyped myself up for something that I knew was doomed to failure. Last year...it was absolutely teh most fun I had had in years. I felt so carefree and I didn't care what anyone outside our little snowglobe of pink/white petals thought. But on Wednesday...I felt like an idiot...batting at a tiny tree outside the FINE ART BUILDING. For some reason I felt judged and dissapointed...I felt like an immature child, the kind who you feel embarassed for because let's face it...we were college students batting at trees and giggling as the petals fell in our faces and hair. I don't think I'll be participating next year. The magic is gone.

    Current Mood: defeated
    Current Music: "Mad World" Gary Jules
    8 trips| to Perkins
    Tuesday, May 1st, 2007
    12:30 am
    Clearing Things Up
    Pawn - The first move of a Pawn can be either one square or two squares forward. Thereafter, the standard move of a pawn is to move one square forwards. However, the pawn is the only piece that moves differently when capturing:- a Pawn takes another piece by moving forward one square diagonally .

    En Passant

    If a Pawn in the fifth row is in the situation where an opposing Pawn moves next to it by moving for the first time and opting to move two squares, the Pawn in the fifth row may take the opposing Pawn by moving forward one square diagonally behind the opposing pawn. i.e. the Pawn takes as though the opposing Pawn moved only one square instead of two. En Passant is French for "In passing" so, in English, the Pawn is "taken in passing".

    Now we know for certain. Thank you for loving me. I'll try really hard. Promise.

    Current Mood: optimistic
    Current Music: "BItter Sweet Symphony"
    to Perkins
    Saturday, April 28th, 2007
    10:38 am
    STEALIE FROM DESI
    1.) What side of the heart do you draw first?
    the left, the awkward, slightly ablong left.

    2.) Can you swim without plugging your nose?
    Um, yes, if choking counts as swimming.

    3.) What color is your razor?
    (Sh!) whatever color Willie's is...or when I actually have my own, it's a pastel girly color.

    4.) What is your blood-type?
    A+

    6.) Where would you go to live for the rest of your life if you could?
    A temperate Climate...green scenery, can I bring someone with me?

    7.) How do you feel about carrots?
    "Meh" that's how I feel about carrots and that's how they feel abotu me.

    8.) How many chairs are at the dining room table?
    7

    9.) Which Spice Girl is the best?
    When they were big, I liked Sporty Spice, but Ginger was really the only one with a soul.

    10.) whats your favorite color?
    Don't really have one...but I guess if I had to choose, some fun shade of green.

    11.) What's your least favorite animal?
    Little Yappy old lady's dogs. (coughcoughPeanutcough)

    12.) What would you do if you were stuck in an elevator?
    With who (thinks of scene from Mall Rats)

    13.) What's your favorite kind of gum?
    BUBBLICIOUS! But it's really horrible for your teeth.

    14.) Do you scrapbook?
    Sadly, no. I'd rather remember my life as I want to.

    13.) Do you have a crush on someone?
    Do I! He's adorable, he's sweet, adn he's got a cute butt.

    16.) Do you use words that you don't know the meaning to?
    Often. But most of the time I use context clues to guess what they mean.

    17.) Do you like to sleep?
    Sometimes, if I have all mo work done and there's nothing cool going on.

    18.) Do you know which of United States states doesn't use Daylight savings?
    The states that are always really late or early for everything?

    19.) Do you know the song Total Eclipse of the Heart?
    The Song? Yes. The Artist...no.

    20.) Do you want a bright yellow '06 Mustang?
    No, the last thing I need is to draw attention to myself when driving.

    21.) What's something you've always wanted?
    A Microbus.

    23.) What does "Semper Fidelis" stand for?
    Sounds like a really original name for a pet.

    25.) Do you wear a lot of black?
    Not so much anymore.

    26.) Describe your hair?
    Flax, with sun-burnt highlights and a gradual lightening from the roots to the tips. Slightly overpowered by gravity, it seems drab whenever it isn't freshly washed.

    30.) Do you have a tan?
    Come on! It's only April! The only people I know who have a tan right now are Dana and Theresa...probably Shane too, but I haven't seen him in years.

    31.) Are you a computer addict?
    Are you kidding Des? No? Okay...and I am not a Scott addict, I just like him a LOT.

    32.) Do you enjoy spending time with your mother?
    Pleading the fifth

    33.) Are you a sugar freak?
    Not so much, I'm not really much of a freak when it comes to food.

    34.) Do you like orange juice?
    When we have it, Willie sucks it up like no body's business.

    35.) What sign are you?
    Like it matters, a cancer.

    36.) Can you count to ten in more than one language?
    yes...four, two languages short of a song.

    37.) Who did you copy this from?
    Like the title says, STEALIE FROM DESI!

    38.) How do you know them?
    They're this chick my brother was dating...just kidding, a friend, but also that too.

    39.) Have you kissed anyone in the past week?
    Yes. A lot.

    40.) What are your plans for this weekend?
    I wasn't invited to Mark's party, so I guess I'll do my homework and hang out with Scott and Robyn.
    2 trips| to Perkins
    Sunday, April 15th, 2007
    3:53 pm
    I've Made A Lot of Mistakes
    In my mind, in my mind.

    After naively purchasing batteries at Wawa, I now had a chance to once again listen to music in my car. It was a quick fix, but I'm tired of my own renditions of songs such as "For Good", "Colors of the Wind", "Johnny Be Good", and other various show-tunes I have collaborated over the years. I just want to hear someone else sing for a change. Sifijan Stevens was the first and only candidate from yesterday and I really ever since can't seem to get enough of "Chicago."

    It seems fitting. That one line just keeps running through my head,
    "I've made a lot of mistakes,
    In My Mind,
    In My Mind."

    Cause while I' m quite certain he hadn't the slightest notion of my existence or how I feel, it's true. I constantly feel like I have messed something up, or will shortly. But it's all in my head. I can so easily blame myself for anything that is wrong at anytime corresponding to my life. I've been reading Jean-Paul Sartre's works lately. I'm not really sure how to say this accurately or without fudging some meaning, but...he claims that all that man does and all that it yields is man's responsibility. Now, perhaps this has nothing to do with my guilt-ridden train of thought, but I sometimes/all the time, feel like when anything goes wrong to make people close to me sad or hurt, that there was something I did (or didn't do) to vicariously cause it. I realize that this is not the way it works. If the fault is to be shared, and myself only one of the many factors, then why is it my conscience that bears the brunt of the guilt? It is beginning to make no sense to me. It is quite clear now that I have to break my habitual course of thinking. I need stop pointing my finger at myself and quit running to corners to hate myself. Over the course of my life, I have felt humiliated, depressed, guilty and worthless. Too often do I turn to these as a normal course of action. There's more than one habit to be broken here, but this will be the hardest one to break.

    Current Mood: determined
    Current Music: "Chicago" Sufijan Stevens
    3 trips| to Perkins
    Thursday, April 12th, 2007
    8:11 pm
    1. I feel uncomfortable in any kind of shoe but Convserse.
    2. I dislike Eggo Waffle Cereal.
    3. Organizing items at the food store is a past-time of mine.
    4. Blood does not make me queasy.
    5. On a monthly basis I get tired of a majority of my clothes.
    6. That damned Lipozene commercial needs to die.
    7. I share my name with the inventor of Turbo Jam and my 4th grade teacher.
    8. Asparagus is one of my very rare food dislikes.
    9. I've never owned a hermit crab.
    10. Chickens make the best pets.
    11. My dog Peanut is senile.
    12. I sing show tunes not only in the shower, but in the car, walking around campus and at strategic parks.
    13. Once did a rendition of Le Mis at Castle Park, not too glamorous.
    14. I sometimes wish I had a sister, think about all the shit she'd steal from me and then take it back.
    15. Pantyhose make me want to cry.
    16. Make-up makes me look like a cheap French harlot.
    17. I refer to vegetable lasagna as Vegania.
    18. List-making is my special power.
    19. I feel nakie without my rings on.
    20. I am not going to tag anyone.

    In order to make that last one a fact, I will NOT be tagging anyone. Although, it did take me three minutes and 47 seconds to complete this.

    Current Music: "Big Rock Candy Mountains"
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