XerkyleReizem

my mom committed suicide last night

More excuses from me, lol... Well, things haven't been going very well at home: family issues are either staying the same (terrible) or getting a little worse each day. It feels like I'm living with a dementia patient fused with a control freak/suicidal hybrid. Sounds funny but it's not. I kinda feel like I'm scraping my emotional energy off the pavement just to make it through the day. Don't even get me started on getting a job or anything "normal" people do after college... I suppose the good thing is I finally got the graduation present I've been wanting: a new, desktop-replacement laptop! :excited: My old laptop was going critica

Well, I had a few modest ambitions for the summer and the time before I get a job... Alas, family life is much worse than I had anticipated. I don't know if anyone read the journal entry before last, but the family member in question has been... hard to manage. I feel like my entire family has been reduced to hospice nurses or caretakers of the mentally ill. The situation is basically such that I can't really do anything without supervising that person, and I'm super stressed because of it. It's really hard to write anything with long-term cohesiveness. On the plus side, I got an email from my Department Adviser and learned I was awarde