Article 24
Romeo gave me hell today. He's sleeping at the moment, looking innocent as can be.After waking me up by pissing on my bathrobe at six thirty this morning I gave him breakfast, which he refused to eat...
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Article 21
I've been going emotionally downhill for the past two to three weeks. My mother noticed it first; it was manifesting as increasing sleepiness. This past week, however, my mood has been noticeably...
View ArticleWriter's Block: Roommate from Hell
Have you ever had a nightmarish roommate? What made you incompatible? How did you eventually resolve your conflicts?View 993 AnswersMy freshman roommate and I didn't get along for a variety of reasons...
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Writer's Block: Animal magnetism
What animal best represents your inner spirit? If you had to wake up as an animal, which one would you choose, and why? Are your two answers the same? Why or why not?First question listed was submitted...
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The head-games in my family are starting to wear away at what sanity I've won back for myself. I don't understand the rules; I don't think any of us do. None of us eat right, sleep right, live right. I...
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Writer's Block: Money to burn
If you were given two weeks off with an unlimited supply of money that was only good for those two weeks (anything you purchased, invested, or saved would disappear when the two weeks were up), what...
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My psychiatrist ordered me to double the dose of Ambien I take. Well, I took the Ambien at 11:15, it's now about 2:00 in the morning, and I'm not assleep. What I am asf ar as I can tell is stoned. It's...
View ArticleLengthy, Morose, Self-Deprecating, Satirical, and Overwritten Reflections
I begin most of my days by going back to bed. My dog wakes up with the sun, and I with him; I let him out into the yard, prepare his breakfast, stand about sleepily in the kitchen waiting for the rest...
View ArticleBirds I Have Known
Daylight Savings always throws me for a bit of a loop, but for once it's been in a positive way. I drove my younger brother to school today, as I'd woken up ca. on the couch and not bothered to "go to...
View ArticleYaay!!
Checked my e-mail tonight - and I've been readmitted to St. John's for spring 2011!! So, so happy about that. Of course there are still a few more hurdles (financial aid/loans, getting the all-clear...
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So...It looks like I'm bipolar. Bipolar II, with severe depression and mixed manic episodes. I was a bit skeptical at first when I got this diagnosis, but the medications I've started have had such a...
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Remembrance/ForgettingIn light less than an hour oldmy dog precedes me down the path;his is a world freed from conscious remembering,but mine is full of a constant forgetting.Through the water is a...
View ArticleEep!
So I learned something fairly disturbing tonight: my mother is being stalked. I came home from work at 1:30 a.m. (don't ask me why I'm still up, just don't) and was surprised to find my mother awake...
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My mother is a jackass.She refused to come to my own goddamned birthday party because she'd have to be in the same room as my grandmother - her own goddamned mother.I'm just ... I'm not even "hot"...
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So I'm really getting into birding!I've got a guide book and everything, and I've started a (so far extremely short) list of the birds I've positively ID'd.Yesterday I saw two Glossy Ibis overhead,...
View ArticleTRIGGER: Depression/Suicide.
Dason is dead. I didn't know him well, but I knew him well enough that it hurts me that he's dead. I went to school with him. He was a friend with a good friend of mine. I worked the night shift with...
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So I was in a local library today (you can use your card at any library in the state) dropping off some pamphlets for my place of work. I stopped by the FREE BOOKS table on the way out, because you...
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