Yeah, sucks tht you cant mourn with others who knew them ( Read more... )

And it's full of ballads, unsurprisingly.

I've already cried from "Four Seasons of Loneliness."

But I just started my period so it makes sense I'd be affected more easily with songs or books or movies or...really, anything.

Life is confusing...

But it can be so powerful...  And I'm cowardly for wanting to hide away from my emotions.

The topic was ethical relativism. The professor showed us the first part of an AlJazeera English Witness program in 2009 covering bride kidnappings in Krygyzstan.

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In the beginning several men talked of kidnapping a woman previously and one of the woman's relative told them:

"A girl is like a foal.  She's seen nothing in life... Of course, when ( Read more... )

It's been a long while. There are so many things to be grateful for, beginning with very basic physical survival skills like having all my five senses working, even if they're not as humanly optimal as they could be. Genetics and my own shoddy taking-care-of-myself, yep. But things like being able to walk around are happy things. My body isn't (yet ( Read more... )

*could be triggering*

This was a comment Constable Michael Sanguinetti made during a York University safety forum at Osgoode in Canada way back in January. He has since apologized for the comment. But what he said... It's stupid and insluting and, obviously, victim-blaming.

The comment triggered Toronto's SlutWalk to emerge. While sparked off ( Read more... )

I will consider the next five months a success if I can attain my bachelor's degree, and do whilst crying only once a month.  Freaking out, maybe...twice a month.

I am taking four classes, auditing a fifth, TA-ing a sixth, writing my senior thesis, have work study, volunteering at the public library. Time. Where did time go?  I wonder how the ( Read more... )

It was the best/worst example of "bad timing" ever.

Not to mention that this Thursday and Tuesday we are holding discussions about Tuesdays with Morrie.

( Just lots of thoughts )