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unhinged jesus unhinged_in_seattle is becoming more real by the day, the hour, the minute. my stomach and my heart are starting to feel the affects.


i told work and have started to tell my students and their parents; there were many small girls crying yesterday when i told them i was leaving. even one of my adult student got tears in her eyes. (the thought of it just brought a serious rush of tears to my eyes) i realized yesterday how much my students appreciated me even if the ownership didn't. that i was doing good work that was positively impacting peoples' lives. and i wish i would have kept better sight of that when aspects of my work were overwhelming me.

several young girls crying and asking 'why are you leaving?' and i felt so selfish.

but upon a little further reflection, sometimes i have to take care of myself and make myself happy. i devote so much of my self and life to making others happy that i forget that taking care of myself is legitimate.

(how do you explain to a child that stress and anger have made your life unmanageable in some ways?)


he is already flinging it at me too. the 'if you cared you wouldn't leave' guilt trip. i agree; it is a cruel cosmic joke that we stumbled upon each_other now two months before i am moving thousands of miles away. so fucking cruel that i am already severely broken_hearted over it and i find myself crying when i am alone more often than not. i have never been good with ending, changing, leaving. i think maybe this time might be easier in some ways since i'm older and maybe wiser, but this is a situation that has always hurt my heart.

only compounded
by the tears of little girls
and brown knights
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lostgirl a change of location is just_what_the_doctor_ordered
for me

new_attitude
different_perspective
change_of_scenery

moving_cleansing_dreaming
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Raina this day will come soon and I will let out an eardrum piercing shriek when it does.

so long overdue
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unhinged you got to dictate the terms for everything else
i get to dictate the ending
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