Oh, hello acceptance e-mail from the University of Michigan School of Public Health. How you doin'?

"When you can be as happy in your sadness as you are in your happiness, then you know the key to life. If something bad happens, you accept it because you have true faith that everything really does happen for the best."

- Suze Orman

One of my very wise friends posted this on Facebook today. I think it's just what I needed.

"The night is darkest just before the dawn. And I promise you, the dawn is coming."Apparently it's from The Dark Knight, but I think that kinda cheapens it. I'm just gonna keep in my head that it's from my friend Ashiq ( Read more... )

Home.
If not considered home anymore, at least the town I grew up in.

It's a funny dichotomy.
This place where there are people who believe I can do anything I set my mind to -

But also those who will never let me forget my failures.

They say adversity is supposed to make you stronger ( Read more... )

This is my (live)journal. In which I write about my life. I've said it before and I'm sure I'll say it again, for the time being my life fucking sucks. It's major suckage with little bits of happy sprinkled around but regardless of how itty those bits are I DO HAVE REASONS TO BE HAPPY, DAMMIT! I am going to write about them now ( Read more... )

I think I know why characters in novels are never close with their extended families ( Read more... )

The nightmares are becoming more frequent ( Read more... )

Here it is guys, for the I-don't-know-how-many-th time: The list. The subject lines of the first (non-private) entry of each month this year. Commentary too! To be honest, I clicked to my calendar page thinking that maybe I wouldn't have enough entries to do this, but apparently I wrote more than I thought I did. Here goes.

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