1. After a year and half of liking him, then a year and a half of dating, my boyfriend and I recently broke up.
2. I'm secretly jealous of extremely religious people.
3. I work in fundraising for a local nonprofit.
4. I just joined a dating web site.
5. At least 60,000 Iraqis and 3,125 Americans have been killed in the Iraq war.
6. Makes me nauseated.
7. I want to believe in a personal God. It's just hard sometimes.
8. Life in my thirties is much less emotionally tumultuous than it was in my twenties.
9. I'm applying to law school.
10. If I hadn't been born to middle-class, healthy, relatively normal parents in the U.S., my life (if I were alive) would be so completely different right now it blows my mind.
11. This is my first blog.



