i don't know how this journal avoided deletion. but whatever:
peacechicken.com
is where it's at now if for some reason anyone manages to stumble upon this old one.

I got in!!!!! I was accepted to City Year Columbus today!!! I can't believe it, somehow the funding worked out, so I start in August!! I am soooo excited, I wanted this so bad. I'm so crazy happy right now ( Read more... )

so let me give a brief explanation of what it's like to know you have a problem and would benefit from seeing a counselor or therapist or whatever. most times it is very hard to even admit you need help, and then it's even harder to find help. most importantly, and hardest for "stable" people to understand, the slightest obstacle to getting help is ( Read more... )

sooo my bitch post today is about a trip to the grocery store. we pulled into a spot behind a Lincoln Navigator Superpollution Subdivision that was already parked at giant eagle. we were just about to get out of the car when the Lincoln started backing up for no apparent reason. of course their back window was well over the roof of my car so they ( Read more... )

From the picture on the wall
To the bed post that touched them all
This is where I live
This is where I do my screamin'
How do you say I love you in so many other ways?
This is where I live
This is what I do best

Dreamin' with so much ugliness
Wakin' up to all this beautiful blue
Beautiful you

( beautiful you )

now i hate to point out the obvious.. really i do... but apparently AOL is doing it just fine on their own, and people still don't get it. just look at the opening screen:
( i even added some nice red arrows to assist you )

my life is one step closer to complete... i finally found an mp3 of patty griffin's "top of the world".. not the dixie chicks-- patty, the one who actually wrote it. she never fails to put my soul at ease...
"cause everyone is singing, we just want to be heard.. disappearing every day without so much as a word.. wanna grab ahold of that little ( Read more... )

i've been talking with my friend elena from buffalo.. she knows more about politics than anyone i know so she's very interesting to talk to. even she thinks that if bush gets reelected than the american public deserves what we get for being so stupid and lazy. and that we should just move to canada where at least we can get married. i love that ( Read more... )

right now there's really cool stuff going on at www.moveon.org, they're running their own democratic presidential primary, and whoever gets 50% or more of the votes, that's who they will endorse. it's gotten some significant attention already, and the voting goes until midnight tonight. you can read about all of the candidates and after you sign up ( Read more... )

"oh god, i want you to clear my mind, it's covered up with dirt. and i want to taste your skin, one time, before i taste the earth."elegia by k's choice single-handedly reaffirms my religious beliefs. meaning if i had to decide i would say music holds the power i look for in a religion. this song gets under my skin and holds on to me more than any ( Read more... )