Dear Mom,

You really hurt me tonight. More than you have in a long time. I know I didn't turn out the way you hoped I would, and I'm sorry that you feel I've let you down. I'm tired of you openly expressing your disappointment in my lifestyle in front of our friends and family, and telling me that my "bleeding-heart liberal" phase will pass soon. You need to accept that this is the life I've chosen for myself and I'm not going back. I don't expect you to agree with my moral decisions, and I'm not asking for your love. You don't even need to support me if you can't bring yourself to do so. All I ask for is your respect.

I'm feeling pretty good about all of this.

Really good, actually.

I miss my brothers, though. Anthony is turning 14 in a few days!! Ridiculous!

Oh boy

Oh boy oh boy oh boy =]

Moved

I moved my real writing (the url is no longer listed on my profile page).
www.betweensupposedlovers.blogspot.com

I hardly ever post anything there, because most of what I write is nonsense, so I put it here :)

Dear clock on my wall,

I don't know how to say this, but I feel that this relationship is doomed to fail. It seems we desire different things in life, and lately it's become evident how conflicting these desires are. I, on one hand, long for peace and quiet and calm surroundings in which to collect my thoughts. You, on the other, apparently prefer a more hostile environment filled with ticks that boom in the silence of this place. I am baffled by your sound, largely because you have no second hand. Why, I ask, would a clock with no second hand make sounds? Also, your ticks and tocks seem to occur on the strangest of intervals, hardly as one would expect. I am I losing my mind, or are you ticking every 1.5 seconds? Either way, something needs to change, my time-telling friend. I'm afraid that if this continues, your future will be that of the last clock that disturbed my roommate and me. And nobody wants that.

Sincerely,
Kathleen

I'm going to be 20

In less than a month. Weird.

Ummm update. Have I mentioned that I quit the pharmacy job? I'm finishing out the next couple of weeks at Hyvee, then I'm done. I love being a pharmacy tech, and I'm keeping my job at Osco (back home), but Altoona is just too far of a drive when I can just work on campus.

I decided to give up fish today. I'm an official vegetarian. Hoorah :)

Got the tattoo. Scroll down. I couldn't be happier with it. Except that right now it REALLY hurts.

I'm trying to convince my brother to apply to Drake. He's a senior in high school and hasn't really considered his future. College isn't for everyone, but I think it's for Kevin. He just needs a little encouragement. It would be sweet to have him here. He's a pretty cool kid.

I really feel, that I'm losing my best friend

Two of them, actually.

1) I know you have someone else, but I feel like I'm being pushed out of your life completely. I know you hate when other people do it to you. Don't you realize what's happening?

2) Please stop. I know you're not trying to attack me when I ask a question, but you almost always do. Sometimes you're right and I'm wrong. You don't have to be so condescending about it.

Imagine

Love it.

Today is the greatest

Day I've ever known.

Perhaps a bit of an exaggeration...but not by much. OBAMA :)

Met with Dean Wright of the J-school today. Absolutely wonderful. I haven't felt this sure about anything in quite a while. I belong in this college. Studying under this man. Things are looking up.

Will you help him change the world?

Can you dig it? Yes I can
And I've been waiting such a long time
For today

Listen children, all is not lost
All is not lost


Chicago, did you know this day would come????

Vote Senator Wilson