I know I really should make a proper update, but I'm so exhausted right now ( Read more... )

4 years ago (May 2007) I was at a house party. The same man hit on me 4 separate times. He was severely intoxicated and quite demeaning. I went downstairs where the music was playing to hang out by a friend.
Tom, the intoxicated man, walked up and grabbed my ass. I punched him in the face. (apparently, he's the kind of ma who hits back, but ( Read more... )

 I do not trust my parents. 
It seems they only visit me at their convenience--even if they have already made the trip to the Twin Cities and are 10-20 miles away from where I live.

It stings. 

 Here is something I wrote recently (on paper). I'm going to copy it here. It's about my experiences and the emotions that come along with them. 
My emotions are my emotions, regardless of whether they are rational. I'm trying to deal with them in an effective way. It was written as a stream of conscious, so it could use some editing/polishing, but ( Read more... )

 I gave my first professional presentation a week and a half ago. I did very well but did not win ( Read more... )

Tired. Long day. Gone over 13 hours.
Was looking forward to coming home to peace and quiet. The neighbor moaned. Again. It's getting hard to take. I need my rest. 
I can't just find another place to live, because places are picky about declawing your cat. I won't do that, as it is torture and cruelty. 
I guess some people really care about their ( Read more... )

 Grad school is scary sometimes. It's so easy to feel incompetent ( Read more... )

 I had my first DBT group meeting yesterday (skills lessons and stuff). It was weird ( Read more... )

Weird. Last night I had a dream I was a slave and had to get new papers to be rescued (I had dark skin, and apparently some people with dark skin were okay, some weren't. It depended on your papers ( Read more... )

 I'm going to be better at posting in LiveJournal.

And I'm going to cope better with my anxiety/depression.

And it would be great if I would stop having these fucking nightmares.

Last night's were horrible.