Nothing interesting going on around here. I just felt like making a blog entry.

My shower fell apart last week.  It just kind of caved in.  Actually, it caved out.

My boyfriend and I are renting an apartment.  We have one bathroom and, at some point (this is an old building), someone installed a jacuzzi bathtub/shower.  Of course, we've never actually used it as a jacuzzi tub.  A little over a week ago, the tile along the wall starting cracking.  I called the landlord and he said he would send someone over to look at it.  No one came.  Last weekend, the tiles cracked enough to fall into the wall.  I guess the tiles weren't attached to a wall themselves - they seemed to only be attached to eachother with caulk.  So, we had a hole in the shower wall approximately 1 ft. x 1 ft., along with more cracked tiles that were threatening to fall any minute.  The cats seemed entertained by this.  Luckily, they didn't try to crawl into the wall.

On Monday morning, I called the landlord to let him know that the tiles had fallen.  He happened to have the tile guy at his office when I called and he sent him to our apartment.  The wall was fixed that day.  Did I say fixed?  I meant temporarily stuck back together with some quick-dry caulk.  Hey - as long as it doesn't collapse into the wall again while I still live here, I'm okay with that.

I give it a year max.

Wow - lots of changes to Mindsay since I was last here!  Wiki pages?  Photos?  New themes?  Tons of new people?  People who used to update every day haven't updated in weeks or months?  People updating under new Mindsay names?  Crazy!

I guess I shouldn't be surprised, since it's been about 8 months since I last updated.  Things weren't exactly going well for me at the time, either.  Nope, I shouldn't be surprised.

Life has been pretty good lately.  My boyfriend and I have been living together for about 5 or 6 months, which has been great.  We went camping every weekend over the summer, which made living in Philadelphia more bearable, and since we both hate it here, there's actually a chance we'll move sometime in the next century.  I've been clean and sober for about 10 months.  Things are pretty good.

If anyone I used to talk to on Mindsay actually reads this, I hope you're doing well and I'd love to hear from you.

I can't guarantee that I'll be on here regularly, but I hope to stop by more than once every 8 months.

Ciao!

Hope everyone's doing well.  Long time no blog, yet again.

My last entry on 5/23 summarized my experience of walking smack into a wall.

**Update** It turns out that I broke my nose when I walked into the wall.  It didn't have to be re-broken and set or anything.  The bridge of my nose was fractured.  It was pretty painful, especially since I couldn't really take any useful painkillers (i.e. narcotics) because of recently getting out of rehab.  It feels a lot better now, but it still makes little cracking and crunching sounds if I touch it.  Ew.

**Update** I haven't had a drink or drug since April 2nd.

**Update** I got my tongue pierced last weekend.  For whatever reason, sobriety and piercings seem to go hand in hand with me.  From what I hear, it's not that uncommon.

**Update** I didn't get into grad school.  GRE tests suck.

**Update** My job is no longer ending in July, even though the main research study I've been working on is still ending.  My coworker quit and I've been assigned to her study because my boss REALLY wants me to keep working here. So, since I didn't get into grad school and my job isn't ending anymore, I no longer have a good reason to leave Philly.  Grrr.

**Update** I can't seem to do anything productive.  I can't read anything that takes thought.  I can't write anything that takes thought.  I can't do much besides get my work done at the office, hang out with friends, watch TV, listen to music, and maybe read something, as long as it's a book that takes absolutely no thought.  It's really frustrating.  Either I killed too many brain cells on this last run, or I'm just still recuperating and have a lot going on and it will take time.  I'm hoping for the latter.

That's about all I can think of at the moment.  Things are slowly moving along...