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Humid air hanging over everything, making the papers on my desk soggy and soft; worn out, beat up textbooks lined up like soldiers on the windowsill, having done their duty as weighing down backpacks; rows of empty desks facing me with the memories of profound and lighthearted interactions; fan c...

By 2002, I'd been teaching high school for seven years.  I had also been in a relationship with a narcissist, and I was also just beginning to come to terms with the revelation that my childhood had not been normal.  I was realizing that everything and everyone I'd ever invested my heart in had a...

Well, hello there. It's been a long time. In case anyone at all was worried, I did finally make it home to Texas again. In fact, it's been roughly six and a half years since my family and I moved home from Melbourne. Looking back, I was quite dramatic but I guess that's a part…

So I've ranted on and on here about the evils of my job. But wait, there's more. I am crying pretty much every day. I need this job to be able to pay our mortgage. Yet working here has me so beaten down and defeated I don't know how much more I can take. I…

No bites. At anywhere I applied. And I try to stay hopeful. But it is getting hard. I am leaning on my faith, trusting in God that I'm where I'm supposed to be now and will be where I'm supposed to be whenever its time. But the sorrow and depression coming to a tense, hostile…

I have been Mrs. G. for nearly four years. It's good to be back on Open Diary. I have to change my name, though. SO much has changed, as I'm sure it did for many of you in the past five years, who find yourself returning to the haven that was your online journal. I…

...fill in the blank with an expletive of your choice. I am SO DONE with where I work. So.Done. This diary is my place to vent. My place to rant. My place to let the pressure out so I do not explode. At the end of this school year I am going to have ulcers,…

It is finally November of 2011. I've been thinking about this month for years now. For a while, I considering having the wedding on the 11th; I'm glad I didn't, because we have been married for 3 months yesterday and they have been the most wonderful three months. I know I never actually posted a...