Hi. Wow, it's been a long time - serval months! I had to take a rather extensive hiatus; I had a plethora of work piling up for school, and I was suffering from extreme exhaustion - which, as it turns out, was due to a sleeping disorder I have! A great blessing one can be granted in life is learning that he or she is not at fault for a problem that he or she suffers from, which he or she would otherwise believe his or herself solely responsible for (I'm sure there is a way to make that sentence read more clearly, but I don't know what that would be at this time - so I'm leaving it). An even greater blessing is learning that there is a remedy for said problem. Case in point: I have been extraordinarily tired for the past few years, and was led to believe, quite understandably, that it was due to a variety of factors, among them my own unwillingness to "do what needed to be done" (i.e. laziness). But, as it turned out, the perpitraitor was, in large part, a sleeping disorder! Ah, the wonders of mondern medicine! After spending the night with several wires glued to my head at a sleep clinic, I was diagnosed, and told what I needed to do to overcome the disorder. So, I'm on my way to good health now ^^. It will take a few months, apparently, but I think it will be worth it. Soon I'll be able to stop by here regularly and enchant you all with my scintillating comments, and thought-provoking artwork.

Now a high school graduate, I have no intention of moving onto college without a clean bill of health, though it may mean that I will be a couple or few years behind my friends in "higher education." However, I have resolved that a year, or perhaps even two, spent recovering and learning on my own is just as valuable as a year spent away at college. I am looking foward, now, to the future, and what life will be like to experience completely awake and in the moment.

Peace, Meredith