Hello, THIEF (Zelda reference, chumps)

First off, I'd like to comment on my Last.FM feed over to your right (stage left). I actually haven't listened to my Last.FM station since Christmas, and I haven't listened to my iTunes recently, either. Just ignore it for the time being.

Second, I'm utilizing the title of this post to summarize my 2008 in a nutshell:

While I spent the start of the new year with a few good friends, it didn't begin the way I had hoped at the time, regardless of the events that had occurred within the last 24 hours of 2007.

Feelings were rehashed, relationships were revisited, and I made quite a big mistake. I was lonely. I felt guilty. I still do.
The day after Valentine's Day was perhaps the worst day of my life.
And when spring break came around, I was scared shitless, pissed, and I was, yet again, lonely. Oh, but wait, that was all canceled out the following week.

I spent the second half of my senior year following the completion of my research paper doing near nothing related to the academic scale. I was harassed by my parents about college applications, but i didn't know what I wanted to do, and I still don't.

The weeks leading to Senior Prom sucked.
Senior Prom sucked.
The week leading to graduation sucked.
I got into a car accident the day I graduated.
Senior week wasn't bad. It wasn't what I had expected, but it wasn't bad.

I spent my summer working and thinking that I was in a relationship? Apparently I was not. I guess it was nothing in the end, and hell, she was right. I spent the next I don't even know how long being more emotionally fucked up, upset, pissed off, and sorry for myself than I ever have in my life, and all for nothing more than to realize that I should have seen this coming the first time around, not the fourth.

I met some really cool people, kept in touch with some high school friends, and now I'm just trying to go with the flow. This is what I've wanted for as long as I can remember. I've come to terms with myself and everything (sort of).

And I met someone new. Someone I truly relate with not only on a personal level, but on an emotional level, too. And all I really want to do is read comics, build forts, and kill zombies with her.

For the first time in a long time, I feel like myself again.
For the first time in a long time, I'm happy.