I recently turned 32. Which bastard appoved that?

Dissatisfaction and boredom and rent can be excellent motivators.

SO, here I am in a Dallas suburb, trying to figure out why I felt so compelled to come here, or, I should say, trying to find what was calling me from so far away. I was pretty happy in SLC, and busy too, but for the past year or so, I noticed my reasons to stay slipping away from me, walking out the door, when I was thinking of something else, or in the bathroom or asleep.

I now live with a very young 20 year old roommate in Lewisville, TX. And I have no freaking clue what to do next... I need a job. That's definitely Step 1.

It's amazing how often we function out of habit, how much we do because we have done it for so long...

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Atlanta = Home, but I currently live near-ish to Dallas, a move which will hopefully start making sense sooner than later.

You're Space Ghost and the world is your Zorak. --Abby

Other stuff...

B.A. in Literature/minor in Creative Writing from Oglethorpe University.

Currently reading/Recently Read/Recommend:

JPod by the ever-brilliant Douglas Coupland

The Book of Mormon (sometimes in Spanish, usually in English

and

Women Who Love Too Much by Robin Norwood.
This was a very difficult read for me. I was shocked to find myself over and over again in her pages. I highly recommend her book to anyone, particularly women, who seems to often follow the sentiment of "The more you suffer, the more it shows you really care." I wrote I will not, for anything, repeat the past out of rage and fear from the repeated suffering, desperation and denial I have seen and continue to see in the lives of so many women I know and love. I think this book will help me to actually break the cycle of self-sacrifice turned self-mutilation in my own life.

The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
Intimate, gives elegance to familiarities of everyday and to the common milestones of life. I felt like I was listening in on real lives

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver. What a gift she has. Some sections of the book are written in such palpable Southern accent that I've had to read them out loud to enjoy the sweet, mellow smoothness of my Southern tongue. Beautifully written, thoughtful, honest enough to break your heart. Read it.

Why is it so hard to tell the truth sometimes?

Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now,
lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words
that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have
much sadness and difficulty...
Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words.
--Rainer Maria Rilke

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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other? --George Eliot

"Have courage for the great sorrows in life, and patience for the small ones, and when
you have laborously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake."
--Victor Hugo

Loves: good music (alternative..in the old school sense of that word, bluegrass, some classic rock and old country), Harry Potter, Harry and the Potters, Draco and the Malfoys, The Office, The Dead Milkmen, Violent Femmes, Cat Power, The Arcade Fire, contemporary poetry, travel to anywhere, kindness, homemade food, homemade art, dogs, sassy, savvy, interesting teenagers.

Not so greats: crappy pop music, poor parenting, cats (allergic), dairy products (also allergic), high fructose corn syrup, partially hydrogenated oils, beef, meanness, hair metal bands, when flag waving replaces democracy.

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"Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity, and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom" --George Bernard Shaw