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An ending and a beginning.by Colleen (all) Tue 17 Jun 08, 10:03PM 0 responsesI am officially on summer break, following my first year in college. This year has been incredible, truly the best of my life. No other year can even come close to having been this amazing. I have met so many fantastic people who have impacted and shaped my life and who I now consider basically f...

I almost diedby Colleen (all) Sun 11 May 08, 6:52PM 16 responsesSeriously. Yesterday, I went canoeing on a lake with a bunch of my friends. I'd never been canoeing before, but we got off to a good start. I worked out quickly how to steer and everything, and of all three of our canoes, ours was doing the best. Unfortunately, the lake we were in was way the ...

I'm going to do it...by Colleen (all) Sat 26 Apr 08, 6:26PM 18 responsesWell, I vowed to myself after high school that from then on, if I met a girl and found that I really liked her, and I thought I stood even a small chance with her (i.e. she wasn't definitely straight or in a committed relationship or...both, lol), I would tell her. Thus far, I haven't been put in t...

I Rememberby Colleen (all) Sat 26 Apr 08, 3:10AM 5 responsesThis is an exercise we did in my Creative Writing class. I was pleased with the results and thought that I would share. _______________________________ I Remember I remember many summers, hot and dry, stained with the scent of smoke and wood from the forest fires that always burned in the...

Losing my best friend ... againby Colleen (all) Sat 29 Mar 08, 9:20PM 11 responsesTo sum it up succinctly, I hurt a lot. More than I have in quite a long time. It seems to me that I always lose the friends I get close to. They move, I move, they ditch me, we grow apart ... something happens to sever the bond. I can count on one finger the friends I've had that have lasted y...

An exercise in persuasionby Colleen (all) Sat 15 Mar 08, 3:41AM 4 responsesSo, this is the letter I wrote to my senators/representatives last April when two bills (one to allow civil unions in the state of Oregon, and the other to add sexual orientation to all discrimination policies in the state) were up for vote. I had intended to read the letter to them as a testimony...

Life's Fragilityby Colleen (all) Mon 3 Mar 08, 11:37AM 5 responsesLife is truly a fragile thing. Everywhere we look, we see it being broken, discarded, shattered. It can disappear as quickly and as entirely as it arrived, without warning, without suggestion. One moment it is here, and the next, it has gone. Death and hardship seem to surround me lately, test...

Growing up is hard to doby Colleen (all) Sat 26 Jan 08, 10:27AM 12 responsesLife is always shifting, always changing. The minute you get settled in and comfortable, something gets thrown it to make you move again. This isn't necessarily a bad or a good thing, but it can definitely be scary. For those who are resistant to change, it's terrifying in its inevitability. T...

Not settling for "enough"by Colleen (all) Mon 21 Jan 08, 2:35AM 15 responsesForgive me if this doesn't make a great deal of sense, and if the grammar/spelling isn't quite up to par. I've been awake for nearing 35 hours straight. Last night, I was hanging with a group of new friends in one of their rooms. We did a multitude of random things, and before we knew it, it ...

A painful lossby Colleen (all) Fri 11 Jan 08, 4:33AM 19 responsesThis won't be any long blog full of philosophical ramblings, or even me asking for advice. I just need to let it out. I just found out my cat was put to sleep today. I got her when I was 7, when she was just a kitten. When my mom moved, she didn't take it well, and my mom couldn't find a place...

A lost art?by Colleen (all) Wed 26 Dec 07, 8:37AM 1 responsesAll during middle and high school, I was known as the girl who wrote a lot. I would write fanfictions, stories, I'd occasionally attempt a poem, but inevitably, I was writing SOMETHING at any given point in time. It was my greatest talent, my favorite hobby. Somehow, without my realizing it, I'...

Reflecting on a life worth livingby Colleen (all) Fri 14 Dec 07, 9:34AM 10 responsesSomehow, I got sidetracked tonight into looking through the immense pile of photographs I've accumulated over the last term. One term, mind you, a mere two and a half months, my first at college. For me, getting to college was a longer process than it is for most. I graduated high school a year...

Will it ever change?by Colleen (all) Sun 18 Nov 07, 6:10AM 9 responsesThings have just been bugging me a lot the last week or so. I thought I'd found a niche here, that college was perfect, but now things are getting rocky again. Which is normal, of course; perfection can never remain for long. But it's really been digging at me. To begin with, my grades are not...

GRRRRAAAGH! Going insane!by Colleen (all) Wed 24 Oct 07, 7:55AM 14 responsesSorry about the title, but I really need to just scream, and there's never really a good place to do that when you live on a college campus. I warn you now, this will likely be long and make little sense. Here we go. So I thought college would be the place where I'd finally date. I pictured it...

Regression?by Colleen (all) Wed 10 Oct 07, 6:23AM 24 responsesIt's been so long since I've been bothered by my sexuality. Seriously, it's become something of a non-issue for me. I'm gay; all is right with the world. But lately, aspects of this are really bothering me. In one of my classes, we do forum discussions online regarding chapters in a book calle...

I'm baaaaack! Well, kinda. :)by Colleen (all) Thu 4 Oct 07, 7:42AM 14 responsesHello, everyone! Yes, I have returned. I know I've been rather absent of late. Many of you probably think I fell off the edge of the earth, having discovered in college that the world is flat after all and that going bunjee jumping off the edge is generally not a smart move. But no, I have retur...

A temporary farewellby Colleen (all) Mon 17 Sep 07, 11:28PM 29 responsesI just wanted to let everyone know that tomorrow morning, I leave for college, and for a few days, I won't be able to access the internet at all, and for a week or so thereafter, I won't have time to log on much. So, I must bid you adieu for a week or two. Hehe, I rhymed. :D I'll keep in t...

Surrealby Colleen (all) Wed 12 Sep 07, 5:10AM 12 responsesI guess this blog entry is kind of pointless, but oh, well. It's my blog. ;) It's 6 days until I leave for college, and I have to say that i can't yet wrap my mind around that. I'm in a weird sort of suspended animation, time moving far quicker than I would have expected, each second bringing ...

The power of memoryby Colleen (all) Tue 21 Aug 07, 9:29AM 3 responsesIt’s strange how strong memory can be. Certainly, memory comes in the form of thoughts, of mental pictures and movies of the past, but it also comes in other incarnations. Occassionally, you will have a memory that will bring you back to a certain emotion; not a nostalgic reminiscence of emotion, ...

When reality is not enoughby Colleen (all) Wed 15 Aug 07, 8:10AM 17 responsesAs children, almost all of us dream up fantastic adventures in far away lands, picturing ourselves as the hero in our tales. We live in books and movies that tell of epic journeys and accomplishments. However, as we grow older, we grow out of imagining these stories, trading them in for day-to-day...

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