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My good friend, and roommate freshman year in college came to visit recently. He is finally sober, and on the propper meds, and it was literally one of, if not, the best visit I have had with hi...

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I have been living on so little for the last year, and a half. With school, I haven’t had any me, or much social time, or have been able to participate in hobbies I find rewarding. I have been do...

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I have, of late, forfeited my job. I say “forfeit”, because I found myself fighting for something I didn’t want. I enjoyed working with the patients, but it had been becoming painfully clear that...

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That class was traumatizing. It’s a tough course anyway, and I took it for a summer semester. I’m still sort of traumatized even though it’s over. I have this sense that there is something I need...

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While I adore being back in school, I am missing the great literature portion of my life. I am longing to continue reading my lists, or reread some of my honourable mentions along the way. My sch...

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My youngest brother, and his wife came to visit me before they move to Arizona. It was the first time I have met my sister-in-law; she looked even nicer than she did in their wedding photos. I am...

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After I got my drink on I felt much better. I realized that I needed three hot yoga sessions a week to drink and still feel good. Balancing a healthy life vs. an artist’s life is not as easy as i...

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It is bittersweet. I will be glad to get back into a routine and back in (summer) classes. Vacation was somewhat anticlimactic. One seems to romanticize all about vacation time when one is in the...

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I passed my Psych class with a B. It should have been an A but I’ve learned to juggle the bowling pins life throws at you. It was an easy class. These types of disciplines have always come easy f...

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A new Patient on one of my wards has become a new and rewarding project for me. He began our introduction by asking me if I liked math as I walked past his room to my shift sitting with a violent...

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I have my Final Exam in a week and my two-week vacation begins around the same time. While there are 1,001 books on my list to read, there are a few hundred I wish to reread as well. Yesterday, I...

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[The following is my correspondence with an attorney friend of mine who is at the point in his life where he only takes cases that he feels inclined to take on]. Big K_, I regret to inform you th...

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Upon the visit from my mother, I was informed my paternal grandmother, Joan, has lung cancer. She had a stroke last fall, and she survived her daughter, my aunt Julie who passed last year of what...

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I do not believe Patient S_ is schizophrenic. I believe he is autistic due to hard evidence in his discourse. I bring an Elrond Hubbard book in and he says, Dianetics. I say to him I am fasting, ...

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I have just put my 2 weeks or the equivalent in at the Hibachi Joint. The Pervert is back and basically stalking the place like a wild animal. I’m no prude and have worked with plenty of guys who...

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Psych class is going well. It looks like I’ll be getting an A. My advisor is pushing for me to go ahead and apply for The Nursing Program earlier than projected. One of my lead Nurse Supervisors ...

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Upon my own Journey, I embarked on a pilgrimage through the dark and dusty roads into a desert where I found The Tree of Life. I found Yoga, and I found Rawism where David Avocado Wolfe once dwel...

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I have recently been back in touch with an old commodore of ours. My old droogs and I were making an excursion cross-country by thumb back in the summer of 2009. We three, Adam, Corbin and I had ...

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That stupid cunt did it. Please excuse my venting, but that stupid cunt put him in an early grave. Why do I know? Because I was there. I felt her wrath to. She envied his position. Walt growled ...

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I have been training as Supervisor of a Ward at the Mental Hospital. It feels good. I like what I do there. It’s posh in the sense that I ride my bike or walk there. I can see myself buying a hom...

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Though I still was working, there was an exceptional peace of mind to clearing out the space outside of work. I have taken this semester in my Psych class to finish up some looming, untied ends i...

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I am finally rested after using some much needed Sick Leave. The new Mental Health Worker, A_, is quickly becoming a favourite of the more sensible workers. My first impression I had of him after...

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“Melville found answers in the darkness of Lear. Not in the weak goodness of Albany who thinks to exclude evil from good by a remark as neat and corrective as Eliphaz in The Book of Job: Wisdom ...

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I haven’t really felt like writing much recently. Things have been good. I have been working a lot and making sizable leaps in my personal-life, careers and just more or less Life all around, up ...

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