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Paramore. Lady Gaga. James Hetfield. Slipknot.



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I met someone who felt the same way, but I remember him more for being strong enough to change. From him I learned that people are more than their mistakes.


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Many years ago, an older man that I trusted had inappropriate sexual contact with me. Twelve years of therapy and a suicide attempt later, and I still live with it every day.

A big part of me will forever be defined by the worst thing that ever happened to me.

























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I am a prisoner of my own indecision.




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I really hate it when people ruin a perfectly good icon with textures (see post below) but this icon in particular really hits a nerve..

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I'm graduating college next semester. I don't know where I'll be going. I've been applying to grad school. UCLA is in, USC and Columbia are next, Boston University is in February, I'm still on the fence with Florida State University and I've been advised to apply to a few more schools. I don't want to go to NYU anymore. I'm looking into Georgetown University and UC Berkeley. I'm wary going to any UC because of their recent funding problems, but we'll see.

On December 1st, when I get the major grad school applications in, I'm applying to a lot of jobs for possible work. I'll be applying to San Francisco/Bay Area, Los Angeles area, Chicago, Boston, Manhattan (I'd live in Jersey) and the DC Metro Area. I've also been advised to look into London, Prague and Germany, but I don't know. I'd like to stay in the country, but again, we'll see.

Next semester classes have been chosen. I'm doing well in my classes this semester, even though I had to drop microeconomics. The other four are doing swell. I don't like my internship anymore but it's shown me that I have an aptitude in marketing/design, public relations and promotion. My classes have also opened my eyes to producing over filmmaking. I haven't felt this inspired in awhile.

Currently I'm writing a new novel for NaNoWriMo, one that has a niche market and will be easy to sell. It's coming out well I think. It's completely out of my comfort zone since I'm talking feminism, gender politics and male privilege, but it's turning out to be a fun challenge and I'm enjoying it. I enjoy that I'm learning who the characters are the more I write the novel. It's a great journey. I'd also like to say that writing this new novel is turning out to be another purging for me, so I hope that proves to make some good writing.

I'm still trying to sell Child in Time. My professor gave me a lot of encouragement into keep trying to sell it. It took him ten years to write the novel he's now getting published from a publisher in San Francisco and he had about twenty-something rejections until he finally got accepted. A good inspiration and I am happy to call him a mentor, especially in my last year. I'm also looking to get a documentary idea off the ground. Now that I have the mountains of research, the next step is to find a crew who would like to dedicate themselves to this idea and to get the assistance/allegiance from the non-profits I need for the documentary. Once that is done, it's onto the funding aspect.

Metallica at MSG in a few days and honestly I'm not excited at all about it. It's probably because I'm so busy thinking about other things in my life that are more important and pertain more to me that I just don't care anymore. Or maybe I'm depressed. Probably both, considering the late hour. In any case, I'd just like to say I really miss Hoan a whole lot and I do hope I get to go home for Thanksgiving. I miss my best friend more than words can say.

As the year comes to a close, I've learned a lot about myself. I've grown up a lot. I've gained a few people, lost others, reevaluated my life and myself and I can say I like where I'm at right now. It's scary, because I don't know where I'll end up or what I'll be doing. I've always been a future-oriented person and I always like to have set plans, set goals, set anything. But life did butt its head in and now I feel absolutely clueless. I have no idea what my dreams are anymore. But I'm learning. I have goals and aspirations and I am making myself a damn good support team so I can be a successful person. I'm learning how to reign myself back and learn to listen. I'm becoming more responsible and owning up to my actions. It's all a learning process. I'm young so I gotta learn.

A great thing I've learned is that in the field I might want to get into (television/film producing), it's all about bringing yourself out there, taking risks and making things happen. If there's anything from my childhood that at least is coming true, it's the fact that I am fulfilling my dream of finishing college in four years (the first of my family to do so), that I'm at least trying to go to grad school after college and that I know what I am good at doing. It's a scary time right now but unlike senior year, I won't let myself freak out no matter how desperately I want to. Throwing myself into the unknown haphazardly and without second thought for my undergrad was possibly the greatest thing I could do to myself, the greatest gift my mom could give me, because I can flat-out say that if my mom had told me "no, you're not going to the east coast, you're staying home and going to a JC and then transferring to Berkeley," I can say with confidence that would've happened. So thanks mom, you did the right thing. Instead of me freaking out like a worry wart ala high school, I'm excited for the unknown. Because I know I can not only handle it, but adapt well and excel in my new foreign surroundings and make it into my home.

In closing, my paid LJ will run out soon and I will not renew it. Time for me to leave and open my own blog with my portfolio and other work on the site. More info coming soon. :)

Just a reminder that our current challenge is due Tomorrow at midnight and only one person has entered. If we don't get more entries I will postpone it.