Went to a psychiatric appointment yesterday, which for some reason always makes me feel worse. I don't know what it is, whether I feel judged by my doctor or she just unnerves me or what, but I felt horrible after the appointment whereas before I'd been a bit paranoid but okay. I nearly broke down crying on the bus when I realized that one of the ( Read more... )

Nat: (buys whiskey for Dad for Christmas)
Me: ... I thought that was what I was getting Dad for Christmas ( Read more... )

My brother and father (especially my father) are driving me crazy. Mom's in Michigan until later tonight, celebrating the holiday with her family, and I hate being the only female home as it appears that the balance of common sense gets seriously thrown off. There's the stuff like Dad suggesting without irony or joking that we do all of our ( Read more... )

Me: (calls registrar’s office about ordering transcript copies and spends ten minutes navigating the phone system to the automated message with the information I need)Phone: Thank you for calling the registrar’s office. If you want to order a copy of your official transcripts, please send five dollars, along with your name, student ID number, ( Read more... )

Spent most of Friday with gandsgirl, trying ethnic restaurants (Ethiopian and Nepalese), watching Jeeves and Wooster, discussing my good/okay/bad/awful driving at turns when it was any of the above listed, and having unexpected car trouble ("Is the front of the car smoking?"). It went very well, on the whole-- really, the car trouble was the only hitch and ( Read more... )

My brother and his girlfriend broke up. They were only going out for a few months, but they were a pretty nice couple and he was hoping he had more of a future with her than they ended up having. Needless to say, he's pretty broken up about it ( Read more... )

This should not be as difficult as it is ( Read more... )

Saw Die Fliengen Höllander (English: The Flying Dutchman) at Seattle Opera on Friday night. It was pretty good, on the level of most Seattle Wagner (we are America's Wagner town), and starring Greer Grimsley and Jane Eaglen as the Dutchman and Senta. They were awesome, as usual-- I don't think there's ever been Wagner where they didn't sing ( Read more... )

Good things:

I blew three fuses today and no one got mad.

I got to do metal work-- drilling and sawing.

I already read Gorgias for Classics on Wednesday ( Read more... )

If I haven't mentioned it yet, my brother now has a girlfriend-- her name is Eleya, and she is his first girlfriend ever. It's actually the first time he's ever had a crush on a girl and had it go well. She seems like a very nice person, the one time I've met her (although they've only been dating for about a week and a half). She's pretty, she' ( Read more... )