Hello there.

I didn't really forget about this blog per-say, but I just haven't updated it. I could say that it's because I haven't had time... but that would be a lie, I'm just lazy.

But I'm writing now! That deserves a pat on the back, right? No? Ah well.

Anyway, since I wrote last. I have started school at Columbia College Chicago, and I am now a week away from the end of my first semester. I'm loving it here. I love my fiction classes, and I really love living in the city. I've found that I really am a city girl at heart. Now I don't think I can ever see myself back in the suburbs... not that I really saw myself there anyway, I just have confirmation now.

Let's see what else is new...
I have a tattoo, a heart on my inner right wrist (my heart on my sleeve). I have wanted this tattoo for over ten years, and honestly getting it felt like finally seeing something on me that was supposed to be there all along. It feels natural. The whole idea of wearing my heart on my sleeve is something very important to me. Living honestly for the whole world to see. For me part of that means being outspoken about the important issues that affect my life, and that I know affect the lives of many others. Being honest about living with mental illness, about being a survivor of sexual abuse, about a struggle with an eating disorder. All of those things and more. It's not being proud of that, it's not being an exhibitionist, but it's being honest and open. It is being comfortable talking about it in your daily life.

I don't have much more to say at the moment, this post was really just to say that I am going to make more of an effort to write here. Perhaps I will make a second post sharing some poetry?