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I was 21 and rail thin after a two month bout with mono. My hair was bleached platinum. I was a size 2. I wore a royal blue wrap dress. I had a silver bangle that reminded me of a snake on my wrist. It was the last semester I spent in college. If mono wasn't the death of me, it was the death of...
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How does it happen that people simply fall out of your life? You remember them when you hear a song or catch a clip of a movie, but their memory no longer fits in the daily routine of your life which is building a full-time career that includes 14 hour days and expense reports an trips to fancy conferences. Something resonates with me. I was...
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Does everyone lose their sanity at the same time?

Too far, too far, it could all get too cheap for me.

I have been working like crazy. Good work though. I cannot believe I leave for a "business trip" in two weeks. It would appear as though I am an adult. And a semi-independant one at that! Scratch that - I am. I finally make enough money to pay for myself! That's exciting. So is the weather. It's beautiful here and I am going to enjoy...
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I realize that I can no longer put a new picture up here. My images are too recognizable now becasuse of my tattoos. If someone wanted to notice me on here - they definately could. So strange.

Work is a way to distract yourself from your life. It's devastatingly effective.

Trial by fire. FIrst Official week done. Over fifty hours of working and socializing. So yeah.

Just tell the universe what you want. It's listening. It works.

If you aren't "us, then you're them". When did I become us? I don''t think I mind. In fact, I thnk I like it.

Ink can absorb lyric and song
because I can feel myself willing
not to dial you
after sitting beneath the needle for hours on end where they play songs
that are so much a part of you.

But you don't satisfy a part of me.
Your negativity was exhausting.
I choose to be positive
and if I choose to attract positive I cannot choose you....
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I spelled strange incorrectly in my last post. Can I get a witness? Wow.
Taxes are complete. 2007 is so much sweeter than 2006.
Last day of school.
Sleeve finished next week.
Online shopping is more fun than shopping in "real life".
That profile pic doesn't even look like me.
I'm reading four books at the same time. I should just quit.

"So if she...
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I stated this starng trip over two years ago. April 2005. And now I am nearly completed with it and have been handed a career. Literally. Handed a career.