Sorry I haven't posted here in forever (if anyone's even noticed my absence...) Just haven't felt much like posting here lately =/.

Anyway...updates. I'm moving to my apartment this Saturday, starting the new school year on Monday! I'm excited, but also kind of nervous. Hoping this transferring schools thing works out okay. I've had some contact with my new roommates (I'm going to have 3), but not much. They seem nice enough, though. Hopefully they'll be okay and I can have more of a relationship with them than I had with roommates in the past, who were more or less ghosts to me.

Parents continue to cling pretty tightly, though -_-. I get that they'll miss me. I'll miss them, too. But they make me feel like I'm going to be grieved into coming home more often than I really want to. I want to have more of a social life with people my own age, want to do things other than sit around at home all weekend (Which is really all I'd be doing were I to visit home). I don't know how to tell them that I feel smothered without hurting their feelings, though. They already seem to interpret my wanting to transfer to a school further away from home as a sign that I don't like them. Telling them that I simply DON'T WANT to come home that often will just confirm what they think. I do love them, but home is just so incredibly boring and lonely. I need to break away from here, from them. Need to start my own, independent life. We never really do anything fun as a family. Maybe go to a movie once in awhile, but that's it. When we go out to dinner they'll often just stare at their cell phones and not really make much conversation. It drives me insane and makes the desire to get away from home that much stronger.