Library

I have been reading for the last couple days, but mixing this project with school and life's other unexpected challenges is going to be more difficult than I thought.

I did, however, finish A Slender Thread by Diane Ackerman.

Today I perceive the world much the same way as I did in my teens and twenties. But I process the world differently. the steep sensations don't frighten me. The intensity hasn't changed, but it has become familiar and manageable, I don't feel so much in its thrall, and at times I can summon or ignore it. If you can survive the first rapids of discovering you have a terrifyingly intimate relationship with the world, then you'll get used to it, treasure it, and life my eventually calm down. A Slender Thread- Diane Ackerman

I saw in the FSU View that Crisis Hot Line Volunteers were needed, and since that is what this book is about, I damn near called. What a fiasco that would have been. I am not the best person to turn to with your fears about life. I am sure the first caller having a panic attack would then send me into fits too and it would be mayhem. I can handle large scale crisis, but if you start asking the "what is it all for?" questions, I go into a tail spin.

School is going well so far this semester despite the health set backs and my dog is sick AGAIN! I am just trying to not think of the big picture. The big picture makes me nuts.

Whoa, I have been awake 3 hours, it is nap time.