identifying but not understanding April 28, 2009
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in my purse i have a pack of cigarettes, a lighter, and a bottle of ritalin.
i’ve discovered i love andrew bird and sia. i have a wonderful playlist that includes jay brannan and all of my new favorite music. i like using frostwire. i can’t help but wonder if aiden has discovered this open source program yet. he’s been on my mind a disturbing amount lately. i then get angry that he hasn’t contacted me in the last two months. of course i calm down when i remind myself of everything i have going for me. of course when i think of those things i’m omitting all the more negative aspects of my life at the moment. i still think i have a lot going for me though. rather dichotomous but oh well.
one thing that has been troubling me is my surge in mia. i think i can understand that stress can cause a relapse but when i did it three or four times in a single day i realized things were getting really rough for me. especially when i’d done it the day before and the day before that. once i became aware of what was happening i was able to try and break the pattern. only happened once yesterday and not a single time today.
i feel like i’m doing okay yet all the evidence would point to the contrary. how is that possible? how can my body and my behaviors tell me that something is wrong and yet my mind believes things are under control? i wonder if that means that in a few days my mind will have an epiphany and then i’ll pound my head against the wall as i fight a panic attack. i wonder if things get really bad if i would call aiden for support. i wonder if nick will rush to kiss me when we “reunite” after finals are over. i wonder if everything is really going to be okay?
confession April 24, 2009
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in theory my life might be a little out of control. there is of course the drinking. usually social with my amazing friends. we aren’t in garages playing beer pong but we do like our martinis, our seven and sevens, and our glasses of wine. i do drink beer occasionally by myself but very rarely do i get drunk by myself.
i bought my first pipe this spring and i’ve smoked more in 2009 than i have ever before in my life.
my psychologist told me i do in fact exhibit many symptoms of attention deficit disorder. yukon gave me adderall. next week i discuss the right medication for me with my doctor. i understand it’s popular in academic circles. i just want to stop struggling so much.
i’ve possibly found my next casual sex partner. he’s a man i’ve fooled around with half a dozen times before and clothes have even been removed before. we were young then and still in high school. i even met with him once while i was dating aiden. i felt no shame or guilt and while i wasn’t surprised i was also very curious about why it didn’t bother me that i technically cheated on my boyfriend. there was a night when i had a party and i kissed this random friend while aiden waited for me upstairs. strangely enough he’s yukon’s brother. apparently when he found out i’d broken up with aiden he told yukon “damn i’ve wanted to fuck kate forever.” he isn’t even close to being someone i would date but obviously due to our past definitely someone i’d hook up with. he’s generally discrete which is much appreciated. also lives in another city so that’s something i like and might take advantage of the next time i go home.
it’s been three weeks since i last kissed nick. we’re still talking almost every day but are too busy to actually meet. i keep fantasizing about when we are finally alone together again. i’m eager to sleep with him but also don’t think i’m quite ready. we need a little more time to develop intimacy and a relationship first. i almost feel as though this month doesn’t even count and may in fact have been a set back considering the pressure we’re both under at the moment.
i’m procrastinating when i have no right to be procrastinating. it’s a sickness i swear.
the past seven days i’ve bought a new lighter and pulled out my pack of cigarettes. i can’t stand to smoke an entire cigarette at one time but i enjoy the brief nicotine rush and the moment when i am ignoring that it is wrong and everything else that is wrong. it is absolutely horrible.
i met mike yesterday at a softball game. it was just the two of us. i wanted to kiss him. i knew i couldn’t. i wondered if he really liked me as much as dan told me he did. i think i only like him when i know i can’t have him. i definitely can’t have him now.
tonight yukon and i went to this american life live. i wanted nick to come but i knew he couldn’t. i’ve been thinking of aiden lately. i think he is truly over me in every possible way. i’m a little sad of that. i think it’s best for us though. obviously i meant it when i broke up with him.
i’m not proud of any of the things i just reported here. except for the waiting to have sex with nick business. i think that’s for the best. i’m a little delighted by the new pipe and occasionally getting high but i’m aware of the dangers associated with that activity.
i think my life always spins a little out of control. eventually i try to pull things back into balance but it doesn’t always work.
what did you find? April 15, 2009
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most of the random search terms that find my blog are sex related. not surprising. i was a little shocked to realize that other searches would find me too.
“i’m useless and a failure”
i didn’t realize how much of my writing was devoted to my depression, anxiety, and apathy.
a little fantasizing never hurt anyone April 15, 2009
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i survived my allergy attack and didn’t even need steroids. i’m quite pleased considering previously when my allergies congested my lungs i was in such bad shape that i needed prednisone. nobody likes prednisone.
life is uneventful. i’m struggling with apathy. i need to see a psychologist or possibly a psychiatrist. i really want to discuss the possibility of having adult add. it’s been on my to do list forever and yet i never get around to it. i think it’s highly probable that i have adult add.
i check facebook compulsively. mostly hoping nick has written me. things are kind of boring. we chat. i saw him a week ago with our friends but we slightly ignored each other. i feel it’s because the last time we were together with our friends some of them saw us making out. i personally don’t want rumors. i wonder why he doesn’t want people to know. i’m curious.
i want a relationship with nick and yet i don’t. i want the kind of relationship we have now except with more frequency and maybe a tiny bit more affection. i don’t want a public relationship. i don’t want a serious relationship. i don’t want commitment. i tell myself it’s because of grad school and i think that’s true.
i do want him though. i think of us spending time together this summer. watching dvds. going for moonlit bike rides on my favorite country trail. cooking for him. spending lazy saturday afternoons together in bed. i want something real with him. i think this summer i might be okay with dating nick. i wouldn’t really want to announce it to our friends and i would never make it facebook official.
i wonder if we’ll dance together at cage’s wedding. i assume we will. i’ll be very sad if we don’t. i wonder if we’ll each bring dates to the wedding. i can kind of imagine that happening and it being uncomfortable. knowing i’ve seen nick naked and he’s touched my body and we kiss whenever we’re alone and yet we’re still so secretive that we don’t acknowledge it whatsoever at cage’s wedding? that would not be a pleasant scenario. i’m okay with maybe a few whispers about us at the wedding where i will be a bridesmaid in a unique and gorgeous black dress and he will be a groomsmen. we’ll be in pictures together. i’d like it if we were paired together. i’m sure by the end of the night we’ll be tipsy and i hope we go to bed together. not for the first time of course.
i’m looking forward to the star trek premier. i’d really like for that to be an official date. he suggested we go together and i’ll wait until it’s closer but if he doesn’t suggest it i’m going to suggest dinner first. then maybe suggest a drink afterwards. possibly at my house maybe at his.
i keep thinking back to the night when i got on my knees. i really enjoy pleasing a man and take pride in my ability. i think back to what happened afterwards and i draw a bit of a blank. that concerns me. i remember him kissing me on both cheeks. i remember forcing him to kiss me on my lips. i remember getting back on the bed. but then what? i know we talked. did we talk as if nothing happened? it was dark but he was naked. i’m pretty sure i told him what time it was and reminded him he had to study. i don’t remember much else of what we talked about. i don’t think we cuddled. did we even touch? i think we did. maybe we did cuddle but i’m not sure. i would have taken note if we had not been touching because it would have reminded me of when my out of casual friend was in my bed. i do remember being the first to get out of bed and put on my jeans. did i do it suddenly? did i say something before i did it? why did i? was i uncomfortable just lying there with him or did i really think he should leave and study?
we got dressed and downstairs we talked briefly about my grad program.
we went out the garage door. kissed. i remember kissing. deeply. lingering. then one last quick kiss goodbye.
it was good. it was sweet. our time together feels meaningful and based on friendship. it doesn’t feel hollow and superficial.
i usually remember so many details. the fact that so many are missing with him confuses me. i almost think i might be so in the moment that my brain isn’t recording what’s happening. i do vividly remember before i went down on him feeling him so close to me that one slight thrust and he would have been inside of me. there were moments when he was so close that he could have been in me if he hadn’t had the self control. i remember feeling slightly delirious and hyper aware of our bodies touching. it’s amazing i didn’t raise my hips and push against him but i think i knew i didn’t want that to be the way we first had sex together. i want him to slowly push inside of me after we’ve mutually established we’re going to sleep together.
i’m definitely fantasizing.
nick came to visit me at my office this morning but i slept in a little and wasn’t there. he’s stopped by four times in the last month and a half.
i like him and want him and still want to keep this secret. i’ve only told my a few of my closest friends that happen to be his friends as well. some of the grad student girls know but their knowledge of the matter is inconsequential. it’s the “group” that i don’t want to know. at least not yet.
so if he doesn’t want to tell them either is it still possible for him to really like me and really want me? if i can feel that way then he should be able to too. yet somehow i keep wondering if he’s ashamed of me. i think he obviously likes me or he wouldn’t stop by my office or come over when he really should be studying or kiss me sweetly or write to me every single day. his friends are my friends so there’s no fear of them not liking me.
i think part of the fear is what happens if this doesn’t work out. i think that might be the real issue. if it doesn’t work out and no one knows then nothing changes.
except i’ve secretly thought of us having a future.
i’ve also thought of his income if he goes into corporate law which makes me absolutely evil.
except i plan on making my own money. i don’t want children. i want to invest the money and become a millionaire with my dream homes.
i don’t want to clean my house, i don’t want to talk to the faculty, i don’t want to call the psychiatrist, i don’t want to do my tables of evidence for class, i don’t want to face the fact that i’m utterly unprepared for finals, i don’t want to write my end of semester reports, i don’t want to register for fall classes, i don’t want to accept this horrible change in my graduate program that i’m chosing not to discuss.
i want to eat fruit loops and keep losing weight. i want my white teeth and my golden tan. i want my pottery class. i want my bike rides. i want my belly dancing class. i want my weight lifting. i want my art. i want my reading. i want my money.
this is my life. i’m keeping quite the record aren’t i?
reporting the facts April 11, 2009
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i am sick from my allergies. i wake up several times in the middle of the night because i can’t breathe. i spent thursday in bed. yet i went out for a drink with my friends on thursday night. i was the first to arrive at the bar. one drink turned into two. two turned into three. three turned into four. four turned into five and six was a shot of soco and lime washed down with my seventh drink. i emailed my instructors this morning to let them know i was sick and i took the day off and did absolutely nothing. i feel slightly feverish and like everything is filtered before it reaches my senses. i feel like i’m floating when i walk. i think it’s the allergy medicine.
everyone was there last night. i love our group.
fact is nick slightly avoided me last night. i never even had an opportunity to share a secret smile either. i was and am a little disappointed. yet i’m also glad. i hope his purpose was to be casual and not give any fuel to the rumors. i hope he is being purposefully discrete but isn’t ashamed of me. that’s the way i feel. how can i expect him to want to tell everybody what we’re doing when i don’t even want them to know? if i did want them to know i’d be upset he wasn’t being public about our relationship. i think we’re discrete because things are advancing so slowly. no need to jump the gun. i don’t feel like he’s taking advantage of me and i don’t feel like we’re hooking up. i feel like we’re developing something.
i sincerely hope that wasn’t rationalization for a fuck buddy. we don’t have sex but i’ve obviously thought about it. i do want a real relationship out of this. just not yet. not this semester. i’m not sure i could handle a serious relationship and grad school. i’m not sure he could either. am i still rationalizing something i shouldn’t be? i don’t think so. i just don’t want to think there is more there than there really is. because i do think something is there. i’m just taking it easy and taking it slow.
yuck what a mouthful. i also wanted to say nick and i have been in touch almost every day for the last month. i’ve never seen him socialize this much before and he said this semester is the worst semester of law school. something has definitely changed and i don’t know what.
my parents are coming tomorrow. my house is a mess. i have a lot to do that i don’t feel like doing.
i love roksopp and 3oh!3 right now. they are my favorite songs of the moment.
justin timberlake and london bridges will always remind me of summer 2006 when i first moved to my city. the bird and the bee will always remind me of winter 2007 and my christmas party that year. i was still with aiden although for not much longer. nick was at that party before i really got to know him. mgmt and mark farina will always remind me of summer 2008. i think roksopp will remind me of spring 2009 and i think 3oh!3 will be the summer anthem of the year. dream machine reminds me of a night i spent with aiden after a weekend with the girls. when he told me he missed me and my excellent and eclectic taste in music. when he asked if i still watched my favorite anime show.
allergy medicine is kicking in. my eyes feel heavy. hopefully i dream peaceful dreams and don’t wake up with my chest seizing up.
i technically have four people who are candidates to live with me this summer or fall. that’s good news. we’ll see how it goes.
the news April 7, 2009
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my lungs burn a little. i can feel spring beginning to irritate my system. hard to believe when it got below freezing today.
interesting news is that after a full month a relationship with nick is definitely developing. neither of us is ready to make things serious but we’ve informally agreed not to have sex which reassures me somehow. i like knowing he cares and isn’t just trying to sleep with me. i think it bodes well for the future. i think the longer we wait to have sex the better it will be. my goal is to wait a month maybe two. i plan on waiting until after we have been on a real date. i’ve also thought about waiting until after cage’s wedding.
the strange news is we got a little naked together. i was a touch tipsy after four beers in a little over an hour and i remember him falling back into the cushions of the couch. i leaned over and gently kissed his chest which was as far as i could reach. he asked what i was doing. i smiled and said i was kissing this general area and motioned to his chest. he reached for my hand and pulled me up on top of him and we kissed. it was sweet and nice.
after a little while i asked if he wanted to go upstairs. the beers made me bold and i knew what i wanted. not sex but definitely a little physical action. i pulled his shirt off. after we made out for a while i reached for his jeans. i asked, “can we take clothes off and not have sex?” he made a comment about exercising self control. when i unbuttoned and unzipped his jeans i pulled them off and accidentally took his boxers with them. he stepped away then put his boxers back on. i appreciated the gesture. he took off my jeans. i was more than happy to comply.
warm skin on skin felt nice. somehow this time i ended up keeping my shirt. i could feel him close against me. it was oh so tempting and i told him so. he had the self discipline not to though. i remember him right there and wanting him to move and not move at the same time. he touched me. i touched him. he asked me how i wanted him. i told him against the wall. he asked no questions and simply did as i said. i got on my knees and finally tasted him.
later he was lying on my bed naked and i had on my panties and t shirt. we talked. it was nice.
the boring news is because finals are approaching i fear our relationship will be interrupted. i accept this. he’s expressed a strong desire to try and see me but he acknowledges he simply must study. i should too. he did ask me on a date to go to the star trek premiere which is the saturday after finals. that’s one of the reasons why we’re friends. we both want to see star trek. in fact on friday when he came over we watched two joss whedon shows and drank a wheat beer sampler. yukon was jealous. it’s kind of a fantasy date night.
speaking of yukon i bought my first pipe yesterday. it is pretty.
