Hey, everybody.  It's been a long, hard few months and I figured I should update those of you who don't know about it.

I applied to 11 grad schools; I've been rejected from 10 and am expecting my last rejection letter any day now.  It's been a huge blow.  I didn't write for months, longer than I've ever gone without writing since I was 11 or so.  I' ( Read more... )

My applications are done.

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We've looked up residency laws and talked to the lawyer in charge of our case.

good news: the letter we received was not legally an eviction notice; it was a request to ( Read more... )

I'm actually glad now that Ron is going to be going to Israel and leaving me alone for two weeks.  I think I need a lot of alone time to catch up with all that's happened and how much my life has changed.  The last year has gone by in a blur.

I've been disillusioned. 
I've been weak and dependent. 
I've gotten anti-social, lazy and ( Read more... )

Damn it, I'm crying again.  We got these letters today saying that our house is now owned by some bank (landlord probably didn't pay his mortgage) and now they're evicting us.  All the stupid laws aside, where the hell do they get off?  This is our home.

First we got a letter from Remax ( Read more... )

The energy share was so beautiful; I'm still bathing in the afterglow.  I feel like part of a community of friends now and this happiness is actually satisfying.  Happiness, not just joy.

I am excited about traveling and having other lovers, and know I would ( Read more... )

How funny.  I just wrote back to Jason's note on religion, then went to Bastien's mythology class, which I'm auditing, and he talked about the same things which appealed to me in what Jason wrote.  Maybe I am ready to start examining my spirituality again, but it's got to be in a very different way.

Bastien said that when human minds developed ( Read more... )

Rosie - I've been experiencing a sudden, strong attraction to crows.  Can you tell me what your shamanism book says about them?  thanks!

religion- I stopped seeking philosophy when I accepted the world as it ( Read more... )

6 different portfolios edited and compiled,  11 copies sent
 4 personal statements and 1 resume written
1 literary analysis edited
7 online applications completed
6 thick envelopes ready to be mailed
3:30 am, Erica:
Exhausted but able to go to New York tomorrow for New Years... with ( Read more... )