Human Behavior
The Saddest Thing of All
Thursday, June 19th, 2008Today I discovered that I’ve been without health insurance since the first of June. Even though I complain about not having health insurance, I do carry a major medical policy in the event of something catastrophic.
Anyway, I periodically check my banking for any erroneous charges and in today’s perusal discovered my June premium had been [...]
Who Cares? I’m going to Scotland!
Thursday, December 13th, 2007The chaos has already started with this grad school in Scotland thing. People are wondering what in the world I’m going to do with a Masters in The Gothic Imagination.
My stock reply from this point on is, “Who cares? I’m going to Scotland!”
Flippant, perhaps, but true.
I’ve never been one to fall prey to the rat [...]
Guilty Secrets
Tuesday, December 11th, 2007I love holiday movies.
The guilty in my secret lies not in such classics as It’s a Wonderful Life or White Christmas but rather in my addiction to the ultra-cheesy, made-for-tv holiday movies. You know the ones that always involve a girl and a boy, sometimes a significant other who is, as we with guilty secrets [...]
Boing! Boing! Boing!
Monday, July 9th, 2007I’m really beginning to dislike being all over the place, emotionally. One minute I’m fine. The next, raging pissed. Then sad and hurt. Perfectly normal, I suppose, given the circumstances, but that doesn’t mean I have to like it. At the moment, I’m not liking the fact that I’m paying [...]
I am not Myself These Days
Monday, July 9th, 2007The hardest thing I’ve ever had to do is sit back and do nothing. I generally go after what I want, consequences be damned, which translates to the fact that I have always been a bull-in-a-china-shop kind of girl.
But this is probably the most important thing I’ve ever had to do. It’s important [...]