The Diary of Jane

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I passed! It came in the mail and I have my beautiful, lovely GED!

I know it's silly, but do you know what kind of looks people hiring at the mall give you when you apply for jobs there without some kind of a diploma if you're not in school? Plus, now I can start thinking about maybe taking some classes at the community college, or even Purchase!

I am so excited, it's kind of ridiculous. I've already pulled up the SUNY site just to look and see what there is.

Gah. I have the most annoying cold in the whole wide world and possibly Mars. I think I spent all Friday and Saturday in a daze. :( :( :(

Anyway, I took my test! I think I did good! I won't know how I did for at least three more weeks, although the instructor said something about May which I am ignoring because the paper said 3-4 weeks! And then I will have my diploma! I hope! Yay! :)

Also, I'm going with Joplin, so Angel gets the cookies. :)

As you may or may not know, I've been trying out new last names because Doe is so blah. Plus, there are dead Jane Does all over TV and that's just not good. Anyway, March is 'J' month and all I can come up with are 'Jenkins' and 'Jones' and 'Jane Jones' is almost as bad as Jane Doe. So. IDEAS WANTED. And I'll bake cookies for whoever comes up with the name I use next month.

While we're on the subject of Chocolate: I managed to get to Target today and have all of these weird flavored truffles that I probably definitely shouldn't eat by myself. The truffles and I will be in the rec room if you want to save me from them.

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I think this is the first time I have actually been out of the country. It is both incredibly cool and incredibly weird all at once, but I'm having fun. :) The flight over was incredibly long (incredibly is my new word of the day. Expect to see and hear it everywhere I am,) but the hotel is really nice, and we've had some really good meals so far. I think I really like sushi. Or at least the kinds I've had so far. :) We've done a few touristy things so far, all of which have been neat. I think I like the people-watching parts of the touring as much as visiting the sites themselves. It's interesting just to see how everything is different, but still very much the same. Yvette and I are supposed to go visit this temple thing next. Should be interesting. Incredibly. :)

Hi guys! :)

Guess who's moving back in as of this morning? :) I guess I'm splitting with Rahne because that's where all my stuff went (and how weird is it to be in one of the 'adults only' rooms? Very weird. :)

Gosh, it has been a while since I used this thing. Did they change the way the journals work? It looks different to me. :)

Oh! Because I just realized I don't recognize half the people on the system, I'm Jane. :)  I used to room with Amanda and Paige but then I went  on an extended adventure and it just ended so here I am again. :)

Speaking of, who is everybody?  :) (Also where. I think I've only seen three people so far today. Ninja zombies did not attack the school, right? :)

(Maybe I should check my closet anyway. ;)

Hey, what am I supposed to put in this 'tag' field?

Last night was great! After Miles Batman vanquished Lorna Poison Ivy and I, there was much candy! :-D Yay, candy! And I got to run around giggling hysterically like a maniac and it was all in-character because I was "the sexy girlfriend of a psychotic clown" and stuff! I like Halloween.

And I guess today is sort of my birthday, or at least my anniversery, because one year ago, on November 1, 2003, I was found. I officially have one year of memory! Thank you to everyone here at the mansion for making the vast majority of that year so wonderful. Today, there will be a mad dash by me through the halls hugging everyone in sight. This is a warning: If you do not wish to have hugs, hide. *g*

I don't know how to deal with this. I'm afraid that if I loose sight of anyone, they'll disappear, too. And I don't want to disappear, either.

So, I've been thinking about music lately. Someone asked me what I liked -- I think it was Angelo? -- and, well, I don't know. I like some of Amanda's music, but a lot of it is not my type of thing. And Paige has some good music, but again, some of it I don't like. And I don't know what to call the kind of music I like, either. So I've been trying to find out more using the internet and I have discovered something REALLY COOL!

Did you know that you can listen to and even DOWNLOAD music from the internet!? Isn't that great!?!

I should be asleep now, I know. But I just can't. The last few days, all alone with Paige and Amanda gone was bad enough, but now I'm really worried, too. Amanda and Manuel are both sick and I haven't heard from Angelo and everything just seems. Dark. (Except for the glitter. It helps, and the glow-in-the-dark moon over my bed, too. Thank you, Clarice.)

It's scary out here, in the Real World. I didn't notice before, even with the fire and all, but it is. At the institution nothing ever really touched me because nobody really cared and I didn't really care about anyone else (and the drugs they gave all of us wouldn't have let us care anyway).

There are bad things in the world and I don't know what to do about it. I wish I could hug someone right now.

Doc Samson said that I should use this space to talk about my feelings of recent events and get feedback from people about what THEY think about those recent events so I can better understand social norms, thus making me more confident. And, some other stuff. I forget.

So, there was a fire and it was scary. But I got to help out and that felt good. There was a little baby horse that was hurt and I felt really bad for it. I hope it is okay.

It was fun going out clubbing! Paige was being all silly about what she was wearing before we left. Amanda was being all silly about me having to wear leather before we left. I borrowed stuff and got to be dressed up. It was fun. I guess I really never thought about how clothes are like an artform/communication-thing before. I don't know how to express that thought.

I went to the meeting and joined Red X! I will get to learn all sorts of things about helping people. I'm very excited about this, because I think that I want to help people as a job. Maybe?

I also got to go out to the movies with everyone! It was great. And I met Bobby and we had ice cream and I absolutely ADORE ice cream. It was really cool, like Bobby.

Today was something called Easter, and there was also something called Passover before. One is about eating chocolate and the other is about not eating bread? I think there was stuff in my history book about them. They are like Christmas and the lighting-candles-holiday-that-I-can't-spell, right? I remember those from the institution, because everyone was sad. But Easter and Passover seem to be more happy, so that is good. Plus, my roomies gave me a chocolate egg with a cream filling!