Benefits of being 21...

Being able to go to Richmond and buy my own booze...

Benefits of having been 18 on a dry campus:
Knowing I need to take two towels to muffle the bottle of alcohol I'm bringing into the dorm so I don't get caught...

There's a satisfaction to drinking alcohol I bought myself in my own room. *toast*

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Today was a day of a bit of clarity. Ya know, I like my life. I like where I am and where I'm going. And if I want it to work out I need to get off my ass and make sure it happens. I did my homework today for my history class. This is the first time this semester. I feel the need to start doing homework kicking in. Yeah...I want to go forward so let's do it.

In other news, I've been thinking about my friendships. I set a goal a bit ago to learn how to develop deep, intimate friendships without sex. I think I've actually made it. I can think of more than one person that I feel very intimate and close to as a friend who returns the feeling. I don't know if that has ever happened before. It's amazing. In reality, I want to make it happen more often. Apparently this intimate friendship business is addicting.

But thank you to all of you who love me for who I am and appreciate my quirks. Thank you to those who have restored my hope in my ability to let my guard down and thank you for not staring and pointing when you saw me naked. A lot fewer people see me naked than you might think.

Allergy Frustrations

I am going to have to make an appointment with my primary care physician this coming week. I'm taking Allegra again and it worked for a good two weeks. Now, I'm sneezing again and waking up with burning itching eyes. I'm seriously hoping this doesn't mean that Allegra doesn't work for me anymore because nothing else I took worked either.

Medical Question: So if I put in allergy eye drops and they burn like the dickens but sometimes make it better and sometimes makes it worse, should I keep using the eye drops?

*sighs*

The problem with starting to care about your homework is that if you aren't getting it done in a timely enough fashion you worry as opposed to just assume you will get over it later on in the semester.

In other news, organic popcorn popped in butter on the stove and salted is one of the best foods on the planet.

I'm sleepy. I think I'm going to head to bed. I'll get up early and see if morning sheds some new perspective. I will not skip CSC 330 tomorrow *begins to chant to herself*. Also, since I didn't go to Richmond tonight, I didn't get koolaid. This is bad because I have nothing to drink but water. And the water here can give you cancer.

Also:

I heard from my mother today that my grandmother and company are fine. They don't have electricity or phone service, but they have plenty of water, gas and food. The only fear is that the freezers will defrost before the electricity comes back. Thanks to everyone who prayed, wished and thought in their direction.