Mock trial, lunch with Talia, trivia + cheese balls with Liam, Ben, Cas, Lily

November 11, 2023:

I think this one really might be less groundbreaking. Lemme go through the day. I started off by going to mock trial in the morning. That was nice, and I enjoyed working with several students to write their direct and cross examinations. Before going to mock trial, I noticed that I’d placed the broken thermos lid on my cactus thermos, which used to be my favorite one because I’d gotten it pre-TBI. This morning, I wrote down that deciding to place my broken lid on that cactus thermos was kind of a symbol that the old me was broken in ways. I had never dealt with my trauma from having cancer, and realizing that has kind of led to the thought that my time at Fogo was actually bad, not good. It makes sense, because Fogo was literally always my celebration for getting on a cancer drug that worked. Oh well, at least I got like two good friendships out of it.

After mock trial, I went home and met up with Talia for lunch at Fusion, the restaurant less than a block from my front door. I told her about a lot of my important recent thoughts, and am not gonna summarize them all here again right now. I know we talked about potentially going to a new restaurant called Hot Plate next time, instead of going back to Fusion for the third time. We talked a bit about how writing my photo of the day has kind of turned into a form of therapy for me, and it’s really cool how I can write my life so much, especially given that I literally have a degree in journalism too.

Anyways, today after lunch with Talia, mom came over for a bit and we sorted some stuff out, and then I drove over to Liam’s house to attend trivia with him. Today I actually chose to come home instead of staying the night like I often do, and after I came home, I actually thought that it might be better that way. It’s just that I’ve been enjoying being able to be in my own house and organize things more than I would have enjoyed sleeping on someone else’s couch. Also a huge reason why I desperately don’t wanna move in with a parent in the future, even if that might guarantee me health insurance. I believe that as long as I stay on disability, I should be able to get health insurance through disability, and there shouldn’t be any need for me to have to move in with a parent to classify myself as dependent and needing help.

Going back to trivia, I got one girl’s number at trivia. She said she was thinking about organizing some clothing swap thing at the brewery, and I got her number and texted her too. I think her name was Vex. The other important thought I wrote down today was, “I’ve been through worse things than most people, but most of it was in the past.” Oh, we also won the cheese balls today for getting third place! I don’t remember anything I helped on a ton, but there was a whole round where every answer was a state capital, which is something I know a lot about.

I also succeeded in taking my meds at Liam’s house before I drove home, at 9:45pm with two 6g fat biscotti, or Italian almond biscuits with a little chocolate on them. It was a decent thing to take my meds with, and I had it pretty close to exactly two hours after I’d last eaten other food.