To top it all off my family drives me crazy. My mother keeps introducing me to people as her older, unemployed daughter and cutting out job opportunities out of the paper, as if I would settle down and work in OC. My sister is in the thrusts of teenage hood. She comes home from school already on the phone with her boyfriend, who she saw all day, and only takes a break for dinner. Her 16th birthday is tomorrow and she has taken it upon herself to be a complete brat.

I miss my apartment, Gretchen and Matt, who I have talked to once since I got here. I am lonely and depressed. But other than that�.