Hello all
Long Monday. Ah well. It seems like things will finally start getting settling around here.
My B-Day was on Saturday (thanks again for all the comments, guys!
). I haven't done much on my birthdays since I turned 14 and prefer to not make a big deal of them, usually just a dinner and something during the day. Went to see "The Brave One" with my mom and brother. Being a huge vigilante/revenge fan, I loved the film - and it was nice to see a decent ending for the film.
As for gifts, not a bad haul. Gift cards always come in handy. Nicest one was a new iPod (last one broke- something in the hardware).
My roomate finally came back today. She says she's on medication now and that's helping, she's finally started taking classes again. Her parents wont let her move back into the dorm yet but she's hoping to soon. We had a long talk today while she was here. She told me she'd been depressed for a long time and suspected she had some sort of mood disorder. Then she mentioned how her mom had been giving her a hard time. I took a guess and asked if it was the "Get over it, it's all in your head" kind of attitude, which is how my own parental units have been with my SA. She looked suprised and said yeah. The I did something I don't usually do, I told her about my SA and how hard simple things could be. She seemed really relived that I could relate to her and asked me some questions without seeming creeped out (thats the reaction I tend to get when I mention SA).
I'm looking foward to officially joining a search and rescue group chapter on my campus. I'm going to do that as a project for the program I'm in at college, it qualifies enough under natural sciences. Some wilderness survival/tracking training, CPR and first aid certification and then it gets interesting from there on. Hope I know what I'm doing...
Also hoping the experience will count in paramedic training (another future goal of mine I hope to accomplish).
Later
