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| Sunday, October 26th, 2008 | | 11:20 pm |
On what I want to do when I grow up
I want to help people who are suffering from depression or other psychiatric problems to improve their overall health and well being through methods other than drugs. I want to do this because I believe a significant number of people who are suffering from depression, anxiety, or related maladies are not exhibiting a disorder; rather their bodies are reacting in a perfectly reasonable way to the stresses put on them. Giving a patient antidepressants to treat problems ultimately caused by lack of exercise, poor diet, or social and professional strains is like giving painkillers to a trauma victim- the patients symptoms are temporarily gone, but the causes of those symptoms are still there and will continue to worsen without proper attention. I'd like to say at this point that I am not in favor of denying trauma patients painkillers, nor am I in favor of abolishing the use of antidepressants. I merely use this analogy to point out, that in no other realm of medicine are we so willing to accept treatment of the symptoms without concern for the underlying causes of those symptoms. My problem is this: the way I would approach this falls somewhere in between the job of a psychiatrist, a personal trainer, and perhaps a life coach. I have no idea what you would call such a person, or what kind of education you would need, or even if I'd be able to make a living doing this. | | Sunday, June 1st, 2008 | | 2:15 pm |
Anybody know how to go out and meet people besides guys who want to fuck me? Seriously I'd love to figure this out. Current Mood:  lonely | | Tuesday, May 20th, 2008 | | 11:34 pm |
Raleigh is still weird. It is weird precisely because everything is so similar. It is Lexington an order of magnitude bigger. It is Lexington if the state of KY actually did things to encourage businesses to move there. It is Lexington only the college radio station is actually enjoyable to listen to. It is Lexington with very different soil makeup (although I didn't realize this until I went out hiking in the state park and saw huge chunks of quartz sticking out of the ground everywhere). It's Lexington except my friends aren't here. The sameness makes it better and worse, because sometimes I forget that everyone is so far away. Sometimes I forget that I'm calling someone rather than seeing them face-to-face out of necessity rather than preference. I'm so looking forward to going home this weekend. Current Mood:  restless | | Saturday, February 23rd, 2008 | | 11:08 am |
...and signing on in Raleigh. | | Friday, February 22nd, 2008 | | 8:23 am |
signing off from Lex Vegas... | | Sunday, January 13th, 2008 | | 11:56 am |
photographic evidence= the win
It's really easy for me to just convince myself that no matter what I do I'm not going to make any progress in things I want to accomplish. Finding a new job, getting in shape, straightening out my personal life, etc. So it's good to realize that a) I always think that and b) I have actually made progress even when I felt like it was impossible. A fun illustration can be had from my old & new driver's licenses. The old one is from right after I turned 21, about the heaviest I ever was.  At the time, even though I knew I'd been, at one point, much, much thinner, I really didn't think I could do anything about it, at least not without very drastic measures. I'm not even sure why I tried at all, with the attitude I've had about it, but roughly four years of trying to kinda watch what I eat and in the past year even going to the gym semi- regularly and  That's a 40-pound difference. It's still not where I want to be (20 more pounds and I'd be smokin' hot) but it's progress. That's kinda where everything in my life is now... not really where I want but getting there. So, no resolutions this year, except to keep doing what I'm doing and not to give up. | | Thursday, December 13th, 2007 | | 1:31 pm |
Sorry I'm just getting this out...
... but it's been a little crazy. Hopefully a lot of you know about this anyway, as I've told everyone I've run into lately: We will be going to Mi Pequena Hacienda on Saturday at 8 for my birthday. After that, we will be going to an as-yet-to-be-determined bar for continued festivities. Everyone is invited, feel free to bring whomever, just please let me know roughly so I can call ahead to the restaurant. If you can only come to part of the festivities that is also fine; call me and I'll be able to tell you where we are. Current Mood:  excited | | Tuesday, December 11th, 2007 | | 6:58 pm |
Please help me become gainfully employed!
Okay, as some of you may have heard, CompUSA is going out of business and I need to find a new job. This is one that sounds really cool, fun, beneficial to my career, and all around awesome: working as an account exec for Coors. Basically I'd go around to local restaurants and try to get them to stock Coors product, handle their orders, that sort of thing. In the application process they ask you to get recommendations from friends, coworkers whoever, so help me out please! Go here: http://www.jobster.com/outreach/jobs/jobDetails.html?i=Au3BKY56-w%3D%3Dand click on "recommend a friend". Here's my info: Carrie Rowlett carrie.rowlett@gmail.com currently an Account Manager at CompUSA Thanks so much guys I really appreciate it! | | Friday, December 7th, 2007 | | 8:47 pm |
Man, it figures...
Find a job you love, with the potential for you to learn something that will help you advance in your career, where every one of your coworkers and even your bosses are awesome, and what happens? The company gets liquidated. Best guess is I have about 6-8 weeks before I'm out of a job. Operation Goddamnit I'm Not Going to Wait Tables Again is officially in effect. Current Mood:  pissed off | | Wednesday, November 21st, 2007 | | 10:14 pm |
Birthday Planning
So my birthday is December 15th, which is a Saturday this year. For the first time in, um, EVAR, I don't have school OR a gawdawful irregular-hours job to interfere with doing something fun. (last year I did get to go out but it was sorta last-second because i had to beg someone to take a shift for me at work). So. This year. Aaron and Graham and I might do something all together, since their birthday is two days after mine. It may be broken up into two parts, as there will be some people who are underage in attendance- maybe we'll get dinner and then the big kids will go out to the bars or something ;) Let me know if you'd like to come, and if you have any ideas/ preferences on something to do. PHILLIP GREGORY ULRICH- I drove up for your birthday straight from work and drove straight back at the asscrack of dawn to go to work again. You are coming to my birthday Big Brother. This is not a discussion :-p | | Monday, September 17th, 2007 | | 10:54 pm |
I'll say it if no one else wants to
Dammit Robert Jordan! I have continued reading the damn Wheel of Time books, even as they descended from pretty okay to mediocre to oh-my-GOD-why-wasn't-this-supposed-to-en d-four-books-ago?, because I knew, deep within my nerdy nerdy heart, that eventually there would be a conclusion to the story, a point at which all the many disparate directions in which the narrative had ambled would come back together and there would be some sort of meaning to all of it. And then you go and die, Robert Jordan. You die and leave us with, at a rough estimate, eleven thousand pages that lead nowhere. Perhaps, as Eric said, you were simply unable to find a way to wind up your meandering epic and just died to avoid the legions of rabid fans who would devour you whole if you tried any other route to avoid finishing it. Wherever you are, Seth McBurney, I hate you for being charming and handsome and smart and appealingly anti-authority in my naive and incredibly socially awkward fifteen-year-old presence and for telling me how great those books were, thus leaving me no choice but to pick them up in a blatantly adolescent attempt to have something to talk to you about. I place my current ire and frustration squarely on your (broad, well muscled, gorgeous... ahem) shoulders. Current Mood: RARR! plus teen angst relapse | | Sunday, September 2nd, 2007 | | 1:42 am |
I need...
... something new in my life. I'm not sure what exactly. I just know I'm in a never-ending-cycle-of-the-same-ol'-shit funk and the best way to pull myself out would be to embark on some dramatic but reasonable course of life improvement or at least alteration. Last time it was (FINALLY!!!!) getting a new job, the time before that was becoming single. I don't want to do either of these things, for all the reasons you can imagine. But I need something. Some goal, some aspiration. Some inspiration. Ideas? Current Mood: discontent | | Sunday, August 12th, 2007 | | 3:19 am |
would someone please tell me when it became acceptable to take me for granted? i don't think i'm being subtle about how i feel. i think i've been unusually patient regarding certain things. how is it okay to pretend like everything's normal and fine about the way things are? like i'm the crazy one because i don't wanna get screwed over? | | Friday, May 11th, 2007 | | 10:44 pm |
| You Are Ani Difranco! | 
Honest, real, and well liked.
You're not limited by any boundaries.
"And you can call me crazy
But I think you're as lazy as white paint on the wall" |
| | Friday, March 23rd, 2007 | | 11:51 pm |
sometimes i think people post stuff to their journals just to make me worry. | | Monday, January 29th, 2007 | | 12:26 am |
maybe we prefer to fall for unattainable people, because in the end, when it doesn't work, we can tell ourselves we knew from the beginning that it was inevitable, that we couldn't have done something different and made it all work out. we opt out of culpability. or maybe the unattainables seem safer because they don't lull is into a false sense of security. with people you trust, the disappointments are always sudden, shocking; with an unattainable its easier to remember to stay braced for impact. until you don't. until you let yourself trust and it's like fate was just waiting for you to relax that little bit before it stabs you in the gut. it happens over and over again. Apprehension. Trust. Relax -Stab!- New Apprehension. Slower, Warier Trust. Exhale -Stab!- Even more Apprehension. Apprehension that lasts a long long time. Relax a little. Spin around, peer into the dark corners, expecting the sudden pain. Wait. Relax more -StabbityStabStabStab!- it's over when you can't make yourself relax again, not even a little. or it's over when the impact doesn't hurt anymore, when you don't even bother to brace for it Current Mood:  drained | | Monday, January 15th, 2007 | | 3:23 pm |
It's Livejournal, you're practically obligated to be emo sometimes
I really should update this thing more often, or at least pay attention to who's friending me... realized a while back that a couple people I know had added me, and that I hadn't written a thing since they'd done so. oops. Of course the reason I don't write much is that my life is inherently really boring. Well, it keeps me entertained, generally, but I get the feeling that nothing I could write about is all that unique, and that people will be bored reading it. Maybe I shouldn't give a shit what other people think, but there ya go. Lately I've been switching back and forth between hypersocial and everyone-leave-me-the-fuck-alone. All I'm going to say is, there are reasons, and you don't need to know them. It sucks though because I've been totally unmotivated to go do a lot of things, and as a result have blown off at least two gatherings this weekend. So, apologies to Anne and Jessa, and I swear I'll come back out as soon as I'm feeling up to it. Which will no doubt correspond with some period in which nothing's going on. | | Thursday, December 14th, 2006 | | 2:57 pm |
My Birthday!!!
well not quite yet... b-day is tomorrow. and in honor of the 24th anniversary of putting my mother through excruiciating pain for a full 24 hours, everyone is invited to come drinking with me (sorry for the late notice, wasn't sure if i was going to have to work friday night... grr). anyway, i'm thinking we'll start at mia's around 10 and go from there. if you want to come late, that's fine, just call me and i'll tell you where we are. hope i get to see a lot of you!!! | | Wednesday, November 15th, 2006 | | 10:29 am |
Once again, that time of year...
What does everyone want for Christmas? (please note that, just cos I'm asking, doesn't mean I will be getting you anything. Sorry, I'm somewhat broke these days) (also, please keep it PG-1- oh what the fuck do I care, go crazy, it'll be more fun) | | Saturday, November 11th, 2006 | | 1:56 am |
As promised
a real update. no really. soo... single life is treating me relatively well, with a few exceptions that aren't worth discussing. Eric and I are still really close friends... it's primarily the distance (and the fucked-upness of our schedules, which kept us from even visiting each other more than once every couple of months) that's keeping us from seriously discussing getting back together. Since that's basically what fucked the whole thing up in the first place. I have a new job! It's still on the shitty side, but it's in a hospital!! and that's progress!!! Anyway, I start in a couple of weeks, it's as a surgical nurse aide at St. Joe's. I'm uberexcited, as you can prolly guess from all the exclamation points. Currently the plan is to stay at Bella and work two jobs, at least thru Christmas moneymaking season, but given how angry I've tended to be upon leaving work lately, that detail of the plan may have to be revised. Finally, a quote of the day: "When your karma brings Godzilla rising up out of Boston Harbor..." okay, maybe you had to be there. |
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