Famous Anxiety...

So, I have an anxiety disorder. I can't remember if I mentioned that in my first post or not... Well if I didn't, then I should've. (lol, blogger isn't recognizing my contractions as correct spellings)

Anyway, I occasionally visit this online support group site. Its called Daily Strength. The title is stupid, but the site is actually quite informative at times. Definitely interesting. :) Today I was browsing and found a discussion called "Famous people with anxiety disorders". So I clicked. Several people had replied to the discussion topic, but one user posted a lovely list that appears to be fairly comprehensive. I found this list to be both inspiring and worrisome. Because some of these people are wonderful role models. But some of them... haven't led the most stable lives... Oh well. Here's the list, see what you make of it.

Famous Anxiety Sufferers:

Isaac Asimov (author)
Kim Basinger (actress)
Roseanne Barr (comedian)
David Bowie (singer)
Charlotte Bronte (author)
Robert Burns (poet)
Barbara Bush (former First Lady - U.S.)
John Candy (comedian)
Earl Campbell (football star)
Naomi Campbell (model)
Dean Cain (actor)
Deanna Carter (singer)
Ray Charles (musician)
Eric Clapton (musician)
Dick Clark (television personality)
Cher (singer, actress)
Michael Crichton (writer)
Sheryl Crow (musician)
Johnny Depp (actor)
Tony Dow (actor director)
Jim Eisenreich (baseball)
Michael English (singer)
Edie Falco (actress)
Sally Field (actress)
Sigmund Freud (psychiatrist)
Aretha Franklin (singer)
James Garner (actor)
Barbara Gordon (filmmaker)
Shecky Greene (comedian)
Pete Harnisch (baseball star)
Anthony Hopkins (actor)
Olivia Hussey (actress)
Beverly Johnson (supermodel)
Naomi Judd (singer)
Al Kasha (songwriter)
Leila Kenzle (actress)
Nicole Kidman (actress)
Courtney Love (singer - actress)
John Madden (announcer)
Howie Mandel (comic)
Robert McFarlane (former National Security Advisor - U.S.)
John Cougar Mellancamp (musician, actor)
John Stuart Mill (philosopher)
Alanis Morisette (singer)
Edvard Munch (artist)
Sir Isaac Newton (scientist)
Lani O'Grady (actress)
Sir Laurence Olivier (actor)
Donny Osmond (actor)
Marie Osmand (entertainer)
Robin Quivers (radio host)
Bonnie Raitt (musician)
Burt Reynolds (actor)
Joan Rivers (actress)
Winona Ryder (actress)
Charles Schultz (cartoonist)
Willard Scott (weatherman)
Sam Shepard (playwright)
Sissy Spacek (actress)
Carly Simon (singer)
Tom Snyder (host)
John Steinbeck (author)
Howard Stern (king of media)
Barbra Streisand (singer)
Dave Stewart of the (singer – Eurythmics)
Nikola Tesla (inventor)
Susan Powter (tv host)
Anne Tyler (author)
Ricky Williams (atlete)
Ann Wilson (singer)
Oprah Winfrey (host)
W.B. Yeats (poet)

Famous OCD Sufferers:

Dan Ackroyd (actor)
Jessica Alba (actress / model)
Woody Allen (actor / director)
Natalie Appleton (pop singer)
Alec Baldwin (actor)
Roseanne Barr (actress)
David Beckham (athlete)
Ludwig Van Beethoven (composer)
Charles Darwin (biologist / writer)
Ian Puleston-Davies (actor)
Cameron Diaz (actress)
Leonardo Dicaprio (actor)
Penélope Cruz (actress)
Fred Durst (musician)
Albert Einstein (physicist)
Jim Eisenreich (athlete)
Harrison Ford (actor)
Paul Gascoigne (athlete)
Kathie Lee Gifford (TV host)
Jennifer Love Hewitt (actress)
Jane Horrocks (actress / musician)
Howard Hughes (producer / industrialist)
Dr. Samuel Johnson (author)
Stanley Kubrick (director)
Howie Mandel (actor / comedian)
Rose McGowan (actress)
John Melendez (comedian)
Michelangelo (artist / engineer)
Joey Ramone (vocalist / songwriter)
Martin Scorsese (director / producer)
Charlie Sheen (actor)
Mark Summers (TV host)
Billy Bob Thornton (actor)
Justin Timberlake (singer / performer)
Donald Trump (business magnate)
Warren Zevon (musician )

Facebook Fails...

*MY* facebook account is unavailable due to "site maintenance". WTF?? I am now desolate. :P

Anyway, this leaves me time to blog. :D

I am too busy. Waaay too busy. Sadly, I say this even though I'm less busy than I was last semester. Nonetheless, its true. I don't have time to hang out with my boyfriend. :( Bleck. Oh well, life is what it is.

This website is awesome. :D On the homepage there is a yellow button. When you click the button, sponsors donate 1.1 cups of food to charity, at no cost to you. I've signed up for their email newsletter and their daily reminders. So every day I get an email reminding me to click the button. This site also has an awesome shop with all kinds of free trade goods and organic clothing. They're all really reasonably priced. And unique. And gorgeous. So check it out.

Last week I tried out for All-Region. I didn't make it. But thats ok, because I didn't really expect to. It also served as our chair tryout, so I moved up to fourth chair (from seventh). That pretty much rocks. :D Especially since I still get to share a stand with Christie. (In band we take our stand partners pretty seriously...)

Oooh! More news. I met (via wonderful facebook and wonderful Setheran) a ninth grader at my school who is interested in starting a group to raise awareness about humanitarian crisises. Her initial idea was Darfur, but nothing is settled yet.

I got my first History Day interview! Jennifer Lusk was in town for the holidays. She is serving as a Peace Corps volunteer in Moldova. She keeps a blog about her experiences and was delightful in person. Definitely a lot of fantastic footage for my documentary!

A few weeks ago, I discovered a degree program that I never knew existed. Rural Sociology. University of Missouri, Columbia has quite the graduate program in Rural Sociology. They offer a Master's degree and a PhD. So my current life plan, brace yourself, is to get an undergrad degree in Sociology from UCA. Then I would love to spend two years with the Peace Corps. After that, I'll return to the real world and enroll in the Rural Sociology graduate program at University of Missouri, Columbia. Parts of this plan make my family happier than others.

I would still prefer to go out of state and get out of Conway. I'm not a Conway fan, but whatever. It doesn't look like its going to work out that way... Life will go on. I'm sure a dorm room and a car will give me any freedom I need.