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A long hello and Many Apologies
Greetings Sisters,
It has indeed been a long time since I've been active on these boards. For that, I can do nothing but apologize for my sudden (and rather bad-timed) disappearance.
I've had a really interesting (and at times, incredibly difficult) semester (both personally and scholastically).
To put an incredibly long story short, the semesters over and I'm still alive (although barely at times).
To try to explain some of what's been going on, I was out of commission for a little less than a month due to incredible stupidity on my part. I was working on a research portfolio for approx a month, depriving myself of sleep and normal food, in order to get it done. The last 2 weeks of the project, I aided myself with Generic No-Doz and Mt. Dew. The day before it was due, the whole thing was lost and I had to recreate it in about 30 hours. That night was one of the scariest nights of my life, because in a moment of blind stupidity, I consumed 6 no doz, 3 cans of red bull, and a 2 ltr of coke in 3 hours. All on an empty stomach and no sleep. The next night, in order to celebrate having the portfolio done, I drank about 5 shots of vodka (once again, on an empty stomach and still with enough caffiene buzzing through my veins to energize a 12 year old for a week). Thank God for Ross, he took care of me through those next couple of days, letting me sleep, but making sure I was still alive. DO NOT do what I did....it was stupid, and I'm STILL paying for the mistake I made.
That was just one of the episodes that's kept me away from the boards....and away from you, my sisters. I was ashamed of what I had done (both with the caffiene and in other aspects) and I spent a lot of the semester thinking things through and realizing what was really important in my life.
There's a lot more I'd like to say, but I'll keep it brief, for the sake of your eyes. I've been reading the boards and keeping up with everything, and I'm proud of everything that everyone's been accomplishing. The formal pictures have been great and I can't wait to upload mine...Ross couldn't have been a better date, and I had a great time at ours as well.
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~*~Mandie~*~
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