There is a new comic up. The story Chava starts reading is too long for one strip, so I'll put the rest in the next half. No, I won't wait 4 months to do another.
School is almost over, and I'm SO ready for summer. Though this has been a good semester for me. I think Ms. Walker is my favorite teacher of all time. Hopefully I'll do well on my finals and find myself a nice, lucrative summer job.
Lara's birthday is April 26th. It's hard to believe she'll be 17. She's so grown up, *sniff*. She'll be packing for college in no time.
My birthday is May 7th. I was going to see Tool in Dallas on May 8th, but even with Jeff, Josh, and myself logged into Ticketmaster we were unable to reserve tickets. LAME. I listened to a leak of their new album, and it's awesome. I'll definitely buy it as soon it comes out... unless someone buys it for me for a birthday present.
I've been trying to start exercising again, but I've had problems with headaches. Every time I go for a run I get a headache a couple hours later. Can't blame dehydration; I drink over a liter when I get back to the house. Last night I tried to sleep the pain off, only to awaken in tears. I actually woke up crying, and stumbled around the kitchen at 3am looking for an Ibuprofen. My aunt and mother have this heart problem, and my aunt gets cluster headaches from time to time. So here I'm thinking "Oh great, I got all the bad genetics working against me today". On top of that I've been feeling the aura of my panic attacks, and while I've thankfully not had more than 1 I really have no idea what could be triggering them. (I'm not feeling any emotional/mental stress at all. Is physical stress enough? They began 2 years ago after a day at the beach baking in the sun.)
I can run about 3 miles at a time these days, but maybe I should back down from that level until my brain stops hurting. Who knows? At least I have my poddish and my precious running shoes to keep everything else from aching.
Gah, you know what? I am happy. I am just fine. It's so easy to write about the bad things that take up space in your brain. But today I smelled the green grass, held a wiggly baby, felt the wind in my hair, ate chocolate mousse, spoke with my truest love, read philosophy, knit with pink yarn, danced around in my long dress, laughed with my family, and heard my breath as I inhaled and exhaled.
It really isn't that hard to see the beauty in the world. It's right there next to all the darkness, but the darkness just makes it brighter. Yin and yang, baby.
