Hi, everyone, my name is Bodie Shallenberger and I am 21-years-old.

You say that you're living on air ( Read more... )

The color gray will always exist as that barrier between the good and the bad. Not so dark, but not quite light, it is a mediator. I would like to think that my person resembles that. Easy to deal with, taking no sides, being there to help out your average, middle class person. Gray, like the jumpsuit I wear every day of my life. My job, I pick up ( Read more... )

I was looking out the window yesterday, just looking and watching the traffic go by, and inside the space where the screen and the glass of the window is, a ladybug had somehow gotten trapped in there. It really made me think for some reason. Like, how frightening would that be to be trapped? Being that small in a world so big and being totally ( Read more... )

i can't get over how new found glory never fails to make me feel good. i feel good again, my last post is obsolete now, i guess. i mean, i'm thinking about it way less. this weekend was hella fun. last night we went to a costume party and i was jigglypuff of course. we drank a lot of whiskey, like, a lot of whiskey, and i passed out and two asian ( Read more... )

for some stupid fucking reason i'm starting to miss brittany again. i hate it. i know it's so dumb, and i've been going strong for like two and a half months now, but for some reason over the last couple of days shit has been really hard for me. she hasn't done anything, i haven't really seen her, i honestly don't know why. my sister introduced me ( Read more... )

IU really does have an amazing campus.

secondary education wasn't what i thought it was--i officially changed my major/minor today. i'm now double majoring in english and professional writing and minoring in african-american studies (minors don't matter, and i need a minor outside the english field because of professional writing, so i chose this 'cause i only needed two more classes to ( Read more... )

so, i think i'm changing my major, or at least adding/switching it up. i've decided that i really want to teach. it has been either between teaching or working for a publishing company/law firm. i've been talking to my advisor and my parents and i feel that getting into teaching is a step in the right direction--education will always be here, so it ( Read more... )

i feel like i'm in a very weird place in my life right now. i'm back at purdue, and have been for close to two weeks now, and i sorta feel like a grown up. i have a single apartment, lots of classes, bills, and a job. i'm taking statistics, food and nutrition, math 152, english 390B: introduction to business writing tutoring, portuguese, and a ( Read more... )