This past month has been one of the most stressful of my life ( Read more... )

Once again, I am inspired by matt_doyle, whether he meant to or not.

He wrote an intensely personal, line-by-line examination of the prayer he says every night. There were a couple parts that struck a chord in me, but one in particular:

I prayed, then as now, that [my friends] feel themselves loved and valuable, precious to the universe, because they are ( Read more... )

Recently, I've begun working the night audit shift at the hotel. This is due to a lot of reasons, including personnel shifts, scheduling issues, and the fact that the only other girl who was doing it has gotten sick of it after a couple months and wanted to be diurnal for a while. I volunteered, because night audit has to deal with a lot fewer ( Read more... )

I haven't posted in ages, again. My life continues to be generally boring, so feel free to skip the internal musing ( Read more... )

LJ is such a repository of angst already, I probably can't make it worse.
( Cut for angst. Nothin' to see here, move along... )

I'm an idiot. ( Cut for general wank )

At the beginning of this week, I was feeling depressed and homesick. I didn't want to be here, and despite the fact that I had just spent a week there, all I wanted was to go home again ( Read more... )

This has been a very tiring day. I went to bed around 10 or 11 last night (which is relatively early for me lately) and talked to Tyler on the phone for a short while, but even after we hung up I couldn't get to sleep until 2 or 3 this morning ( Read more... )

Wow. I'm a music geek. Gramma just had a clue on one of her crosswords that was: "Wind in the pit." My guess was clarinet. The answer was oboe. XP ( Read more... )

Explaining yourself to the federal government is sometimes difficult. Especially when you don't exactly fit inside the little boxes and columns, as I don't ( Read more... )