Newcomer’s Pitstop

Welcome! Thank you for taking the time to visit The Trouble with Crystal, the cyberspace for my rants, reflections, debates, histories, and future plans. My story is complex, and there is a lot of past material to sift through to wrap your head around who exactly I am and what this blog is about. To make your life easier, might I suggest:

1. Drop all your judgments. I realize that much of what I say may be selfish, immature, whiny, and petty, but it’s what I’m feeling at the moment. I don’t filter my thoughts so that I will come out looking like the golden person. I just tell it as it is.
2. My Ego Page, where I briefly introduce myself and my mission.
3. The first post,  the night I had the inspiration to start blogging
4. Epic Fail, where I recap my main goals and also introduce my mood-rating system (the numbers you see on the bottom of my posts)
5. Follow my adventures in England, where I just finished a study abroad program. Watch my video diaries on youtube.
6. Ramblings about guys, to get a flavor for my stream of consciousness on a topic which constantly bothers me
7. Subscribe to my RSS feed to get updates when I make a new post
8. Follow me on Twitter to get more up-to-the-minute information about my adventures and mood ratings
9. Ask Crystal any questions you might have about anything (related or not to my posts)!

My writings fall into two categories. Depression is the more central one: What happened, and how I’m trying to get over it. These topics include exercising, eating healthy, improving social relations, personal development, improving my sleeping habits, academics, and guys. The second class is only peripherally related, and is me talking about topics of interest hoping that someone might actually read it (a type of ego-masturbation): current events that I find important/shocking/curious, sex (a topic I love to discuss), and other miscellaneous topics. I also often travel to China for personal or academic pursuits.

Enjoy!

Love,

Crystal