It's been forever since I've updated this! I wonder if anyone checks this anymore? Anyways, a lot has happened since I last updated this. For one thing, I now have a boyfriend and it's not Tyler. It's Greg. The nice part about this, he's actually interested in me, and he's been good to me. He's very positive and optimistic, I really benefit from hanging around this kind of person. He believes in me, and he believes in himself - that's refreshing in some ways when compared to some of the friendships I've had over the years - as my mom puts it "you've had lots of friends that you were good for, but not very many that were good for you." Other people's attitudes really off on me for some reason, so I have to be careful. Greg wants me to join him in Washington for graduate school next year, I'm not sure if I will or not though - if I had to decide today I would though. This brings me to the biggest downside to this relationship - it's long distance (though I've seen longer distance relationships more or less work out...). I do miss him, but sometimes I worry that I don't feel as passionate about this as I ought to. Maybe I'm just afraid of getting too attached to people - but we'll see. This year is going to be very interesting, I have a boyfriend, I'm a senior, and I'm IWA president - who'd a thought I'd ever be president of anything back in high school and below? Okay, some of my middle school teachers had a lot of faith in me, but at the time I certainly didn't. I guess, that's something I need to work on. I also need to get over my over the top social phobias, it can be so difficult just to initiate things with people sometimes. I also need to make sure the IMA doesn't show IWA up on preparedness - this means I need to stop waiting for my council to be formed and start planning with our without them! Wish me luck! Hope you're all well! ~Amyelk Out