Hi there! Thanks for reading my blog :)
About the blog: I chose "Artichoke Heart(less)" as the title for this blog for a few reasons. One, because I love the idea of artichokes--how you have to get through these tough, prickly layers to get to the heart (like many people--OH HEY THERE BLATANTLY OBVIOUS SYMBOLISM). But in all seriousness. I am very guarded with my emotions, and outside of a few really close friends I don't like to let people in. I'm a disaster when it comes to dating (I've never had a relationship that lasted longer than a month), and I got so frustrated with being hurt over and over that I decided to just shut people out all together. I try to make myself feel nothing towards other people. I don't allow myself to love anyone in a non-platonic way. I don't mean to, but I've hurt several guys this year by being this way. I've been called a robot, a heartless bitch, and probably worse. But the truth is I do feel. I feel everything.
Another problem (and this one I can't even take full responsibility for) is that I always seem to become everyone's personal therapist. I get so many secrets unloaded on me, things I never needed or wanted to know. Friends need to be able to tell each other things, of course, but so much of the time it ends up being a friend talking AT me, unloading all their personal shit on me and all I can do is sit there and nod my head and make sympathetic noises and the occasional advice. I didn't realize this for a few months but honestly, that was killing me. Holding all those damn secrets and not being able to share my own. So that's part of the reason why I started this blog on a rainy Monday night, sitting alone in my school's theatre.
Also, artichokes are delicious. Mmmm.
OTHER RANDOM STUFF:
I hail from the kick-ass city of Portland, Oregon.
"Theatre" is the slightly less-conventional spelling of the word, but I write it that way because the university I attend offers a degree in Theatre Arts, not Theater Arts. But I realize that both are acceptable spellings.
I'm a vegan, if you care about that sort of thing. Have been for 3+ years.
