After two months, I finally have therapy today. Heavens be praised. I have been so inconsistent in terms of bipolar issues these last four weeks that it's gotten a little scary. Very disorienting and illogical sometimes, like it was in St. Louis, which makes me really uncomfortable and very glad that I will finally be seeing my medical ( Read more... )

After a horrendously bad episode on Tuesday, I'm feeling much better thanks to friends and family who love me and a good session of therapy. Plus, you know, taking my medication. I'm still not feeling quite right (on a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being highest, I've probably moved from a 2 to a 4), but it's a vast improvement. Mom came back last night to ( Read more... )

1. Writing to friends in the old school pen and paper style is wonderful. I've been writing to Arielle about once a week (aside from my hospital stays), and I feel like it's a great way to tell the people I care about that I'm thinking of them. It's a little more personal than an email or facebook message. Plus, I get to build this incredible ( Read more... )

The plan is working! I sent out a facebook message to some people I hoped would give me some monologue feedback via the video I posted on YouTube. It was a handful of people, 8 or 10 I think, that I really respect and whose opinions would mean a lot to me. I've already heard back from Kyle (who responded within just a couple of hours, which rocked ( Read more... )

I went to a Gay Liberation Network meeting tonight, and I loved it. It's everything I've been craving in a gay rights movement: sincere, informed, and well-organized grassroots actions that happen consistently in solid numbers. I'm stoked about the protest march this Saturday. I'll be there early to help GLN distribute protest materials, and then ( Read more... )

1) Up to $20,000 worth of scholarship applications are finished. If I keep this up, I'm bound to make it to at least a few thousand dollars in free college money, which would make that $26,900 price tag on DePaul a lot less scary ( Read more... )

Good things from the last two things... let's make it five things.

1) Helping my grandmother hang lots and lots of holiday decorations. How she has managed to put up such tall things outside at a mere 5 feet tall is beyond me. Plus, she bought me new winter sweaters. I have a very generous family.

2) A good first visit with my new therapist, who is ( Read more... )

The golf tournament for DDHT and its aftermath have taken over my life. I am endlessly processing auction purchases and registration fees, writing inane thank-you letters, and generally thinking far too much about country clubs and dentists in polos. I disapprove.

Leaving work early today to go see my therapist. I'm oddly nervous about it. Maybe ( Read more... )