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I am in the business of losing best friends

“I am in the business of losing best friends.” That’s the sentence I started a poem with a few weeks ago. I was starting to dwell on the whole Craig and Bart thing and it was beginning to reinforce my belief that I was not a worthwhile best friend to anyone but Rachel. And when I realized I needed to blog for today, that’s what I wanted to write about- my best friends. Continue reading “I am in the business of losing best friends”

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Is This What It Feels Like To Grow Up?

Tomorrow morning my speech coach wants me to give a presentation to his interpersonal communication class about my senior thesis novel, because they’re talking about the role of technology in modern relationships and that’s basically the entire premise of my thesis. This is terrifying to me on a couple of levels, because I’m not even a senior yet and I’m only 11,000 words into the project so far, but it is also very exciting because it means that it’s real. Continue reading “Is This What It Feels Like To Grow Up?”

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NaNoWriMo 2012, Day 1!

So our local theater is currently putting on The Rocky Horror Picture Show (play version) which my RA Chris and my roommate Dion are in, and for Halloween they had a special midnight show. Ellen, French exchange student Robin, Chinese exchange student Yu Chun, and I decided to go (me still dressed in my pseudo-slutty vampire slayer costume). The show was great, albeit very sexually graphic. You’d think that would be the end of my night. You’d be wrong. Continue reading “NaNoWriMo 2012, Day 1!”

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Pooping on the Party

It’s been a rough couple of weeks. Honestly, it’s been a rough semester altogether, mostly for reasons that it isn’t my place to reveal. And that’s not the point, so moving on, lately I’ve been thinking a lot about depression. My depression, in particular. Not my current depression, that I’ve mostly got a handle on and can’t really even be considered full out depression anymore. But my depression as I experienced it between the ages of 12 and 18. Continue reading “Pooping on the Party”