I'm a lot happier now than I've been in months, and I think it's all because of the change in my night job. I can honestly say that I hated working at my last restaurant. That was a different serving environment than I've ever worked in before, and I didn't care for it at all. So why did I stay there so long? Well first off, when I get a job ( Read more... )

1. The past few weeks have been pretty stressful, so last Friday I took a trip to the Indianapolis Art Museum, and it was exactly what I needed. It was peaceful, beautiful, and thought provoking. There were so many paintings in there that were painted two centuries before I was born, on another continent by some guy who died six months after he ( Read more... )

1. I always have music or a movie playing in the background while I'm editing. HBO has played "Titanic" at least twice a week for the last month, and it's been my background movie several times. I saw it for the first time when I was 14, and I thought it was one of the stupidest movies I've ever seen. I liked the intensity of the sinking ship, but ( Read more... )

1. At 4 p.m. today, I went into a Chinese buffet for a late lunch. As the only customer in the retaurant, I walked in on a Chinese family sitting at a table in the front. As soon as the family saw me, they all got up and sprinted to the kitchen, except for the teenage Chinese girl who waited at the register for me. I paid, got my drink, and looked ( Read more... )

1. I don't update as much anymore because A. I don't have time, B. My life is more routine than eventful, which gives me less to write about, and C. Subconsciously, I always think twice before I blog, since my online blogging has gotten me into trouble so many times ( Read more... )

Tonight at work, our business was slow, so I wrote a poem to my friend Stephanie ( Read more... )

1. Right now I'm watching "Lock-up," and this episode was filmed at the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City. The whole episode is about how certain inmates received the priviledge of having a cat from a local humane society that they get to keep in their cell with them. The cats made an enormous difference on the inmates, turning them into very ( Read more... )

My depression returned for a while, but it's gradually going away. I've updated my list to overcoming it. If you're reading this and you're secretly suffering from depression, I hope that this helps ( Read more... )

Here are things that I've dreamed about in the past week ( Read more... )

1. Another birthday, come and gone. It was pretty uneventful, but I couldn't really expect much for a Monday night. Plus I was exhausted from a busy weekend ( Read more... )