Nicole's MindSay Blog

Stop This Train

picketfences — 2008-06-03T09:06:41-05:00

This was first posted by myself on August 10th, 2006. I have just re-read it, almost two years later, and I still find it horribly relevant:

Nobody knows it but sometimes I stay awake at...

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Crosswalks are not safe.

picketfences — 2008-03-25T10:03:24-05:00

I was struck by a motor vehicle tonight. Now, readers, I don't want you to get the wrong idea; it wasn't that bad. My shoes did not fly off, there was no blood and there will be no lawsuit. Just some mindless person not...

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Reunion

picketfences — 2008-02-01T09:02:38-05:00

I'm one week into the semester and I am surviving. I may end up living off cigarettes, coffee and a few other choice items by the end of the semster though. My roommate was a no-show so for now I'm living the single...

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Christmas Party at a Place You No Longer Subscribe To

picketfences — 2007-12-20T11:12:02-05:00

Walk into the building and realize its been ages since you've been there. You stand in the doorway, feeling as if you should have knocked before entering. Not really remembering why you had decided to come, you walk...

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Don't Be Hasty

picketfences — 2007-10-25T08:10:11-05:00

I have been in a relationship for nineteen months. It has been going swimmingly (well somewhat). My issue is that his father strongly dislikes me. He can be quoted saying, "...are going to take up with that girl...

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I'm just another lush that's had one too many

picketfences — 2007-06-13T08:06:41-05:00

When drinking alcohol becomes something you do to drown sorrows or escape from life's complicated situations, you probably have a problem. At least that's what you tell yourself. And yet you continue drinking....

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Give Them Nothing, But Take From Them Everything.

picketfences — 2007-04-16T08:04:16-05:00

Sometimes I will be sitting in a room, surrounded by people. I will be engaged in somesort of conversation, possibly laughing. Inside I am dying. Inside I am screaming for someone to realize how absolutely miserable...

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Old Man Look at My Life, I'm A Lot Like You Were

picketfences — 2007-03-10T07:03:28-05:00

When you start partying past midnight you're bound to drink tilll dawn. You're bound to funnel three. You're bound to smoke nearly two packs of cigarettes. You're bound to catch a second wind around 4:00...

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This'll Be My Year

picketfences — 2007-01-27T02:01:48-05:00

January was a month for even more change. It started with the long awaited return of someone held dear. It ended with the dismissal of friends I wasn't able to keep for even a year. January came with the realization...

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Happy New Year, Bring it on 2K7

picketfences — 2006-12-31T12:12:45-05:00

I find myself sitting at my computer, thinking about where I was and who I was this time last year. I feel two worlds and lightyears away from who I was last year. I was ringing in 2006 with excitement for graduation...

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