[Claire Bear]

you can take classes just for fun.

before i decided to go for a degree i would take figure drawing at the community college so i could have access to a model and a teacher.

[Espy]

I, uh, urgh. I'm extremely creeped out by the prospect of having a kid. That is...really not for me, and I think my mom is slowly starting to get it. I've also been dropping mad hints that I'm more or less ace, so.

-snort-

Been trying to get a degree for the past five years. Hasn't happened yet. Thanks, mental health issues. Gonna try again at a different college starting next semester, probably, but boy do I not want to spend another three years struggling for a bachelor's in engineering.

[trystan830]

i went to college right after high school, and was on the "five-year plan" - i have a degree in journalism.... but my main job falls into the financial sector. i graduated when i was still 22, that was in May (1993). by july (1993), hubby and i were engaged and we got married when i was 24 - the following october (1994) which was two weeks before hubby was 24.

(oops, i should mention i met him his freshman year in college (i was a sophomore in 1989).

wow, now i feel old.

also: older daughter was born in august 1997, which was about 5 weeks before our 3-year anniversary.

[Glitch]

i couldn't sleep again last night ;-;

[mdom]

Glitch... will I have to go to the midwest and whoop some ass???

[trystan830]

bah, that's not good, Glitch :(

[Claire Bear]

i had a hard time with college because of my mental health, too.

i started at the college i'm at now as a sophomore, i had like a year and a half of credits. i only took 12 credit hours at a time and it took four years to get to where i am today.

all i have left is putting on my BFA art show and i'm taking an extra semester to do it with no classes.

school is hard and i had to go at a much slower pace than everyone else because i get depressed and anxiety. i thnk college was one of the best and worst things to happen to my mental health. i've had a lot of set backs, but i've also grown a lot in this process.

[Claire Bear]

gliiiitch, you're in the midwest? are we neighbors?? i'm living in downstate illinois right now, but I'm from Joliet.

[SparX]

Noooo she is technically with me in the pacific northwest.
but on the edge to the midwest XD
Don't take her away from me .-.

[Claire Bear]

lol ;-; i wont steal, i was just hoping we was neighbors lol.

[Mekatra]

Have you considered giving your kid Nyquil? (I am kidding, this is apparently child abuse and I was swatted for laughing while typing it.)

[Espy]

-snort- That' *barely* the midwest, mate.

I had a really bad anxiety attack this morning (started and worsened by THANKS MOM and the prospect of phone calls), but I'm a little better now and just finished a call to schedule an appointment with my (new?) academic advisor.

[Mekatra]

I dunno if it would help you at all, but sometimes when my anxiety is really giving me hell I will run my wrists under cool water for a little while. It helps lower your body temperature just a bit which helps signal to your brain that everything is okay.

[mdom]

goooo Espy!
also my therapist likes to say moms are 50% a blessing and 50% a curse xDDD

[Espy]

...mhh. I ended up going into the bathroom and curling up in ball on the bathrug.

[mdom]

It's ok. You're no longer there now.
I guess. Are you using your phone in the bathroom?