Want some good advice?

If you ever get interviewed by a counselor/psychologist, remember one thing.

They're all humans. And that means they love it when they don't have to work too hard.

Give them manageable chunks about yourself, and convince them that it's nothing much. They don't really need to schedule a follow-up appointment, because they think that's all they have to do.

And smile. Gesture. Joke a little. Be relaxed. Sit facing them. Maintain eye contact.

Convince them that you're being honest with those little hints. They want to think you're listening and you're interested.

Let them fulfill those little fantasies, and they'll shut up.

Yeah. I can now write a self-help book, after just one counseling session yesterday.

Take that, self-help authors!


But seriously, there are ways to keep sane. For instance, a blog. It's immensely cathartic to just write down your thoughts somewhere, where nobody can read it. I used to publish everyday. Then I realized it probably isn't a good idea letting the world know so much.

So I stopped publishing it.

So I started writing a lot, like a diary on my computer. It's buried under tons of files, inside tons of folders, arranged chronologically. It's way safer than Haruhi's one in Meet the Suzumiyas, that's for sure.

Anyway, I'm going off for tuition. Will continue typing once I come back, shower and have my dinner.

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Kelly is leaving tuition.

Let me repeat myself.

Kelly is leaving tuition.

Now, I don't really talk a lot about her, but that's justified. See above, and the fact that we do the same stuff all the time. Crack inappropriate jokes, create tons of implied homosexuality, whack each other like the VitriolicBestBuds we are, and joke around.

Still, she's leaving. Tuition is gonna become way less fun. I might lose touch with her, and I don't want that to happen. I've lost touch with way too many people, and I don't want Kelly to join that list.

I've maintained contact with a few classmates, mainly because we live near enough each other. But now, I'm also moving this month, and I'll lose touch with them. If Murphy comes along and invokes his law on me, I'll end up becoming the class pariah, in addition to losing all my ex-classmates.

I don't know what to do. She's leaving, and I don't know how to stop her. I can pour out my feelings into another story, possibly. That won't help a lot. Kelly did promise to keep in touch via Facebook.

So what?

FB can only do so much. We need to be online at the same time if we want to chat. Besides, it's just not the same as a face-to-face conversation.

Whatever.

I'm off writing somewhere else. I promised to publish this.

Mabel. Just Mabel left.