i'm watching miami ink right now.

and my brain is pretty much vacant.

completely blank.

all i've been doing all day is thinking and stressing and figuring out shit to do.

first, due to circumstances that i can't control (or something like that *sarcasm*), i have to go to a different place to cover the election night on monday...just when i've completely figured out where to go that night, now i have to change it and go to the opponent's campaign headquarters...now i have to do the process of calling them all over again...and i don't want to have to deal with that right now.

then i had to stress about finishing my stock profile assignment.

there are two things that depress me when it comes to the news--politics and business.

but this semester i have to deal with both these subjects.

i mean, i finished the assignment, but i'm not too keen and happy about it.

the thing is, it isn't so hard or anything else...it's just beyond my comfort zone...stuff i don't usually do just scare me to death.

but then i started to remember the day that i got my...

tattoo.

!

yes, that's what i've been hinting in the last few blogs...i'm not going to expose it to the world, i am VERY HAPPY with it, but i'd like to keep it a bit discreet...if you feel compelled to see what it looks like, click here, fool.

but back to the story.

it was something i wanted to do badly...but i found myself questioning the pain factor...and what people would think if i got one...it's just not something people would expect me to do.

but i knew i wanted to do it, and if i don't do it, i'll just regret it in the end.

the funny part is, when i finally got to the parlour, the most painful part of the process was the waiting...getting the tatt itself did not hurt at all.

now i've had it for a week and a half...and i still find it surreal...but it's there, on my shoulder, and it just reminds me that if i can do THAT, i can do other things too.

...

you know, writing this blog made me think about stuff...and maybe this whole thing with the elections and other stuff isn't gonna be so bad after all.

and you know what, i need to go sleep now...an early start tomorrow...and i'm exhausted.

this will be the first time in weeks that i'm sleeping this early.

who woulda thunk that sleeping at 10 PM was early?!

till then.

...peace out...