June 2nd, 2009
It’s been a few days but I graduated from university last week – Thursday! I’m so glad it’s finally over. My overall GPA was a 3.455, for my major it was around a 3.804 which isn’t bad considering my upper division grades were stronger than my lower division ones so it all balanced out. It’s been a long and bumpy road, one I wasn’t sure I was ever going to get to the end of. I’m still surprised I’m here, that I walked across that stage, that I finally did something worthwhile.
I’m also happy to say that three of my poems have been accepted for publication in a magazine! It’s a quarterly one and I got an acceptance letter a couple of weeks ago. First publication of anything that I’ve sent in. I’d been too scatter-brained and certain of rejection to really try before.
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May 13th, 2009
I got sent to a semi-lockdown (ok, ok, if you got near the doors you’d get tackled) because some dipshit therapist thought because of my past history I was a danger to myself. First visit, he’s asking my past history, a 1-10 scale of the likeliness I’d off myself (I give a 3, 10 is the likeliest). He tells me I need to be hospitalized despite the fact the day before my psychiatrist, who I’ve seen for years and years, didn’t feel I was in need of hospitalization.
I missed a day of school and my brain was ready to kill itself out of boredom. It’s not Girl, Interrupted in there, it’s dull. I never realized how dull it was before. Happy Mothers Day to my mom, I guess, I got put away for five days.
So today I’ve been studying and catching up and eating normal meals. The food in there is shudder-worthy and I missed out on three and a half days of study time.
I did indeed cancel the appointment the hospital made with the guy who got me locked up. I know I should have put up a fuss but he made it sound official (he’d call my mother and the hospital and whoever necessary to make sure I was there). Next time I’ll say unless the police have me in cuffs I’m not going to go in over completely garbage reasons like that. I was not going to do anything. He didn’t even ask me if I’d contract for safety. Ugh.
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