2002-05-14 1:47 p.m.

life is kinda 'funny' right now

OK, sometimes I just have so many things, thoughts, feelings inside about all types of random things and it all rolls into this huge ball and I just have to get it out somehow, either by telling someone, or writting it down, or typing it into this little journal thing - so, um, I opted for the third right now!:)

Going without school for 5 1/2 months really makes it interesting the first day back, which was today. I spent 4 hours this morning in US History I (it's only a 3 week class) and actually was thrilled to be learning! We had an interesting teacher and I'm so reminded of this inner thirst for knowledge of mine! of course, that also kinda sucks 'cause I forget how overwelhming knowledge can be. I mean, maybe I'm the only one who's ever felt like this, but sometimes I get so overwelhemed walking into a Barnes and Noble just thinking of all the books and all the stuff there is out in this world and how I want to know everything, but how will I ever get to it all? So, it's great to feel like this again, but also bad, 'cause I know what happens when I think too much and I once again realize how meaningless life and everything is. so, hmm...new subject...

boys/relationships/marriage/and all that crap - ahh!! OK, two of my new roomies are engaged and the other is seriously dating a guy. Of course, guys are very nice things to have around when you have to move all your crap into a new house :), and they were all over yesterday as we were moving in. Of course the guys helped carry in my stuff too, but it was kinda sad being the only girl that had to put together her bed by herself. This year is going to be interesting. I need to hang out with more single friends!!! :) Oh, and this school I go to, I swear it's just a marriage factory! And of course, this being senior year and it's like people are afraid to leave here unmarried, I know there will be an INSANE amount of proposals this year. It's funny to me how people will only date for a few months here and then get engaged and yet, that's all normal!!!!!! Yeah, and it dosen't help that I'm retarded about guys. OK, so I'm not retarded, but well, my guy situation is kinda funny right now...hmm...well...I'm not going to go into it right now, but yeah, just too much to think about! :) next subject change...

I lied. I am missing California. Or just real recently I have been. I miss they way people are, that they don't assume that sundays and wednesday nights are 'church' time for everyone. I miss how open people will be about things, maybe it's just the 'secular' world, but what is wrong with saying sex or talking about nude paintings in a classroom? I mean, I don't like nude paintings and I don't look at them, I'm not having sex and I don't plan to for awhile, but that doesn't mean the words are taboo for me. Maybe my teaher is just old fashioned, but we were talking about these paintings back around 1500 with nude people and he would only refer to them as 'without clothing' or 'unclothed' and it just was funny.

You know, I use the word 'funny' to mean a lot of different things: strange, weird, complicated, interesting, hilarious, etc. So, yeah, I guess everything is just plain funny!!!

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Thursday, Aug. 03, 2017 - hello?
Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2014 - strange dream
Monday, Oct. 06, 2014 - catholic and friends
Thursday, Sept. 04, 2014 - changing. and I need to go to bed.
Saturday, Aug. 30, 2014 - dreams of dying

Chapters of My Life
Motherhood
Sept. 2011 - now Being a mother.
Isolation&Infertility (&pregnancy)
Aug. 2009 - Sept. 2011 Working from home in a job that I love...that comes with a loneliness I hate. A husband who works too much, and continued failure to start a family. Slowly spiraling, forgotten, into social invisibility. Accepting and experiencing the potential of pregnancy.
First-Year Teacher
Aug. 2008 - Aug. 2009. pretty much the hardest job I hope I ever have. and all the while trying not to admit my secret turmoil over longings for/attempts at/failure to produce what's supposedly supposed to come after love and then marriage...
Optimism
Aug. 2007 - Aug. 2008. finally accepting that becoming a normal grown up is not just inevitable, but preferable. better job situations for both of us. working freelance as a studio teacher, and becoming an egg donor.
Fading Dreams...
Dec. 2006 - July 2007. student teaching, being poor, consistent job rejections, trying to save face while feeling hopeless.
To Live a Life Worth Death...
July 2006 - Nov. 2006. thinking about death a lot, accepting life and my eventual end. career and passions - beginning the path of contribution to what I will leave behind...
Identity Crisis/Marriage
Oct. 2005 - Apr. 2006. new job. new career. new last name. new husband. new life. who was I and what was I becoming?
The Official End to Childhood? II
June 2005 - Sept. 2005. preparing for a life that still felt like pretend. was I really a 'grown-up' already? weird.
The Official End to Childhood? I
Feb. 2005 - June 2005. losing my virginity, getting engaged, changing my career, selling our childhood home...slowly losing everything that held me as a child... (Meet Mr. Mom 4/05 - 5/05. working/travelling on production of my 4th & LAST reality show ever.)
Quarter-Life Crisis/Unemployment
Sept. 2004 - Feb 2005. no steady job for 5 months - definitely not a good place to be. oh, and I fell in love - which is a good place to be, but it kind of only adds to the confusion.
Postlude to the Prelude
Apr. 2004 - May 2004. I had no clue what things were being set in motion...but everything has changed from there.
The Simple Life 2
Mar. 2004-Apr. 2004. not the deepest thinking period of my life, but I learned a heck of a lot about production of a reality tv show.
L.A. #2 - The Real World
Aug. 2003-Feb. 2004.the big move. transplanting my life. ironically not only working in the "real world", but also AT the company that makes The Real World.
That Weird, Here Nor There, Summer
May 2003-Aug. 2003. a college graduate, but not yet in the grown-up world. just existing. and waiting. and thinking.
Goodbye College
Jan. 2003-May 2003. it's a weird thing, the last semester of college. lots of thinking about what lies beyond.
The Semester From Hell
Aug. 2002-Dec. 2002. it was kind of like I tried to cram 4 yrs. of growing-up experiences into one semester.
I've Changed?
Apr. 2002-Aug. 2002. after L.A. and stuck right in-between the two most intense "finding-myself" semesters of my life!
L.A. #1 - Interning/Discovering
Jan. 2002 - Apr. 2002. I finally stepped WAY outside my comfort zone and went where I had no freakin idea what I was doing. Living outside your bubble for awhile really makes you see differently.
Beginnings/Depression
Aug. 2001-Jan. 2002. who I was, and sometimes who I still am. how it started and how it was before.