The Order of Death

I kept waking myself up last night by rolling onto my left ear. Ouuuuuch.

I'm going to meet with an old friend of mine today around 12:30- Jane Phillips, a high school English teacher who I became very close to. She's looked at most of my writing, critiqued it, and has just supported me in every way. Phillip's actually a brilliant poet. She was made the poet laureate for our county last year. This is the first fall where she's retired from teaching a full-time class. Now she just tutors at the local community school. Mrs. Phillips, unfortunately, has MS, which I'm sure you've all heard of (if not, there's Wikipedia). In the past three years, it's grown much much worse and forced her to quit teaching.

It feels to me like great writers always end up dying young. Isn't that the truth? I don't know if anyone knows Rozefire from the Inuyasha section of FF.net, but I go over to her journal sometimes and I learned that she has MS as well and it's hardly dormant. Edgar Allan Poe died young at 40. Hemingway killed himself when he was 60. Look at this interesting article that I found. Creepy, isn't it? Thank god I stopped writing poetry.

After I'm done chatting with Mrs. Phillips, my mom and I are going college-shopping, probably at Walmart. I need a whole bunch of things, from toiletries to notebooks to rainboots and a heating pad.

Myth #6 Preview: Hikaris are intensely photo-shy. Yamis don't really mind the camera and tolerate it.

The arguments for either side are fairly good in this case. Does that fact that I've never shown a photo of myself mean I'm photo-shy, or it does it mean I merely want to remain anonymous? Does the fact that Marlie didn't want a picture taken of her earring mean she's self-conscious about the piercing or does it mean she hates photos, period. Comment away!