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Saturday, April 28, 2001

DolusQuickUpdate:

• Graduation Countdown - 14 days


• Moving Status - Unknown


• Career Status - Unknown


• Personal Life - A Ball of Tension

I've been getting a lot of searches for "steven burns blues clues" and "glam dyke rescue unit" which were previous posts on the old pages that don't appear now. If you have been sent here by a search engine and are looking for info on either of these [extremely separate] topics, please click the appropriate icon in the Welcome menu at the top of the index page.

Posted by alicia @ 12:25 PM CST [Link]

Monday, April 23, 2001

Another old friend popped into my life recently. We had a lightning fast catch-up-on-our-lives conversation via ma bell, during which she succinctly reminded me that yes, in fact, life could be worse. That, and I saw Schindler's List for the first time last night. Yes, life could be much, much worse. And don't watch Dancer in the Dark. Just say NO.

....And the job situation may be shaping up soon. Message to any potential employers who happen to be reading this: My life is really going swell, seriously. I am a happy and stable person. I just make this stuff up. Promise. Please don't scroll down. Quickly visit my résumé instead. Thank you.

Posted by alicia @ 01:12 AM CST [Link]

Monday, April 16, 2001

DolusQuickUpdate:

• Graduation Countdown - 26 days


• Moving Status - Unknown


• Career Status - Unknown


• Personal Life - A Laugh Riot

Posted by alicia @ 10:41 PM CST [Link]

Wednesday, April 11, 2001

I got a message from an old friend recently - a high school confidante, a love-you-till-we-both-die sort of girl. It brought back a lot of memories, some funny, some painful. Perhaps we can work through some of the bad bits and get back to the happy ones.

It has also reminded me of the proverbial angst that we all seemed to feel back then. I have been particularly struck by the similarities between the primary characteristics of adolescence and the diagnostic criteria for Borderline Personality Disorder. This disorder includes some of the following symptoms:

• frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment.


• a pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships


• identity disturbance: markedly and persistently unstable self-image or sense of self


• impulsivity in at least two areas that are potentially self-damaging (e.g., spending, sex, substance abuse, reckless driving, binge eating)


• recurrent suicidal behavior, gestures, or threats, or self-mutilating behavior


• chronic feelings of emptiness


• inappropriate, intense anger or difficulty controlling anger

Well, that about sums up my problems from age 14 to 17. ;) It's mostly difficult to remember how my thought processes worked back then. I had some odd rationalizations for behavior, for example. Hmmm, might be nice to have some of those old skills back...

Posted by alicia @ 12:18 AM CST [Link]

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