I'm in a very bad mood right now. My mom is upset with me because she thinks I was giving her attitude. She was talking again about all the things I have to be careful about in college, and I said, "I know, you've told me this before" and she got angry. Before that, I was already feeling apprehensive towards her because she had been insulting me about my taste in guys. "Are you blind?" is what she kept asking me. She thinks I don't respect her, and I honestly do, but it's hard to outwardly show respect for her when she doesn't show it to me. I don't know what I'm trying to get across here, but it's the place I thought I could use to vent. Every time I've tried to talk to her, she's just glared at me. Then she'd start talking to me but in the way that it's as if I'm not really there. "You think you can just talk to me however you want, show no respect. I do everything for you, you're only nice to me when you need something." was what she talked about. She was yelling at me in the car, but I was never given the opportunity to respond. BLEH, this sucks. I don't know what to do. This isn't the first time. All I could think about was the power imbalance. I really didn't appreciate her insulting what I found attractive in a guy. i'll update another time. It's extremely difficult to use nvc with a parent.

Helloo!

Life is going pretty well for me. I'm quite excited about spring break; I have a lot of simple plans, like running and visiting the museum of modern art in san francisco and whatnot. I just came back from a jog with a friend, and I'm feeling very refreshed and enthused about life. I do yoga when I wake up, and that always helps start the day off right. =)

To talk about what we're learning in class, I must say it's a heartwrenching ordeal. I was looking at a website earlier that had a lot of good ways to help in the campaign against genocide. I can only hope that we will really take action. It makes me wish this was a required class because I've learned so much from it.

I used NVC the other evening when my friend and I got into an argument. I caught myself constantly saying "I feel as if", and I had taught him about NVC and he also caught himself saying "I feel like". We were actually able to sort things out and it felt fulfilling to do so using NVC. Yay!