My mom just emailed me the email she sent Grace/NBTSC asking where to send her $50 donation for the scholarship fund. My mum's been so stressed about money lately - they're moving in a couple months and haven't sold our house, haven't found a house in Walla Walla, and she hasn't found a job over there yet, either. This makes me cry. My heart feels ( Read more... )

Paige: Best book and best movie you've seen in the last year and why they're the best.

Best book: I read Anna Karenina a few months ago and it was a stuggle and overwhelming, but I was blown away by Tolstoy's character development and ability to hold a plot - or at least an engaging story line - through such tricky waters. I can't remember what I ( Read more... )

I just called Sam. We talked for 4 minutes and 38 seconds, according to Skype. I called to tell him that there's a capture the flag game tomorrow at UVic that he might want to come home early enough for. Things were calm and normal between us. He seemed a little apprehensive that I was calling...or maybe that was just me. Either way, we didn't say ( Read more... )

Today has been:

• Telling Jason that I'm looking for another job because I want to work days. And him being totally calm about it. Like it's insignificant. And I've been brewing over this for at least a week, thinking of how to bring it up for days, and worked on the wording for hours. I feel both good bad about how calmly he took it. Raise your ( Read more... )

Humans are so silly. I'm writing a position paper in response to Barbara Kingsolver's article And Our Flag Was Still There (which you should all go read because it's amazing) for Engl 101. I had my mom look at my first draft and then yesterday in class we did peer reviews so my classmate Rebecca read it, too. They both wrote lots of comments about ( Read more... )

I went and vented to my mum in her office about 15 minutes ago and, while there, I realized something obvious and profound. So I'm so busy, right? And I keep thinking, "Buck up, Newt, you aren't even here full time?"

And then it donned on me: I am here full time. I hadn't realized that before. And I work 10 hours a week.

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So I told my mum that I'm going to break up with him. And all she had to say was how much I'm going to hurt him. This whole week I've been convincing myself that, yes, I am going to hurt him but this is still what I need to do. I need support, not accusations. So I'm crying again. And feel so, so guilty and horrible and shameful.
Will someone ( Read more... )