20 minutes until class, and i don't want to go. at all. i'm completely unmotivated to go, and i simply don't want to make the effort. i feel unmotivated to do work on my senior project. i'm simply unmotivated to do anything ( Read more... )

you want to know what my sister just did? she just graduated. yes, i'm talking about sheila here. can you believe it? it's pretty incredible. mom and i were weeping so hard when she got her diploma. we were crying so hard we couldn't clap. but that's ok. sheila received the longest and loudest ovation out of all the graduates. which made us cry ( Read more... )

tomorrow is my sister's birthday. i haven't ever missed one of her birthdays. every year, i've managed to be there. this year i was contemplating missing sheila's birthday for the first time ever. enter the wonderful trevor. "when's her birthday again?" "tomorrow" "did you want to go home Friday or Saturday afternoon? a day late is better than not ( Read more... )

i love sheila dearly. she's my favorite sister. it's horrible of me to have favorites, but i do. do you know how glad i will be to get back to school where i never have to see any of sheila's shows? i can't wait for a Zoom-free day. i am sooooooooooo SICK of Zoom. Sheila loves it. it' one of her favorite shows. you know how whenever you don't like ( Read more... )

me: you know, you do talk a lot.
sheila: yeah, i know

when sheila is sick, she becomes a chatterbox. she's here to day wih me chattering away a mile a minute. and i haven't truely woken up yet.
oh good. she just got out one of her coloring books. that should help. i am not going to let her watch tv all day. she's supposed to be sick. tv watching stimulates the brain, not letting her get the rest she ( Read more... )

sheila and i were watching tv, and a commercial for Legally Blonde came on the air. in the blurb they said "she's going where no blonde has gone before" and sheila turned, looked at me, looked at the tv, pointed at me, looked at the tv, "u?"

at dinner it was determand that sheila and i would stay home while mom, daddy, and colleen went to a ( Read more... )

Dear Andrea, Anne, Jean and Sue:

I sent this post out to 3 Ds lists I'm on and did not alter it
for you. Hence info about the weather that you might not
need. Also reflections in last paragraph might not be
pertinent to you. Any how:

We took Sheila downtown to apply for her SSI benefits today. Since
there was no parking right nearby ( Read more... )

well, with an alzhimer's gene on the 21st chormosome, it would explain the higher risk of that disease in people with down syndrome...

today in class we watched a seemingly innocent film, Gattica. it was ( Read more... )