Name: blue star IP: 64.69.254.25 Subject: virginia reel around the fountain Email: bluestarliz@hotmail.com Website: http:// lol, i felt so grown up when i set up a checking account. that feeling has long since passed... don't worry, was like "wow, i'm getting old!" a couple months ago. i mean, you've got a checking account...i'm making car payments! and it sucks when parents make you start paying for things like gas, food, and tires...i miss the days when my mom was always like "you need money?" now, if i don't have tires on my car or gas in it, i don't go anywhere. if i don't have money for food, i go hungry. she is loaning me money for this months car payment, but she wasn't even gonna do that. and yes, credit cards have their purposes but i still don't trust myself enough to have own. i'm not that grown up. so i got another job...actually two, since i was gonna work at west, but comet cleaners finally called me back, which is super cool, sinc i won't be working late and will have most of saturday and all of sunday off...yay! i'm itching for school to start...starts in a week. then i can go buy art supplies (i love doing that...nothing like sketch pads w/out a mark on them, unopened boxes of pencils, and fresh tubes of paint!), and get the structure i seem to need so desparately in order to feel like i'm accomplishing something. anyway, derek, how could you say you don't have a plan for your life? i mean, you don't know exactly what you want to do, but do any of us? i mean, you are very set on getting through college, you know what degree you want to get, you are prolly gonna go to grad school (hopefully not tech)...you know you want to be doing something creative with your life...probably writing. you definately know at least the direction you want to go in, and you are going in the right direction. that is better than many i know. as for shelley...you have left a very cryptic post...i'm not sure if you will even be reading this, so i'm not sure how much purpose there is in me writing this, but oh well...point being, jamie tells you that you don't talk things out and bottle things up, and yet you plan to withdraw from the friends that you don't see all to often anyway...i'm confused...how is this gonna solve anything? regardless, i hope you accomplish whatever you need to, and if you need to find a copy of maus II, my sister has it and i'm sure she'll be more than happy to loan it to you. the two maus books are the most thought-provoking things i've read in a very long time. --liz --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- ---