Moggett's blog

I have a friend whom I've known since high school. As far as I know, she's never been diagnosed with BPD, or at least, never believed the diagnosis, and she has been out of counselling for several years.
But if she doesn't have this disease, I can't imagine anyone who does.

I first heard of the disorder less than a month ago from someone who was explaining her relationship with her BPD mother. And something clicked. "I have a friend just like that," I said. (I had thought my friend was the only one like that.) Of course, I didn't want to jump to a pseudo-diagnosis from a single conversation, so I read books on it, starting with "Borderline Personality Disorder Demystified."

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I've gone to the same church for eleven years, and I've never become a member. At first (my family started attending when I was in high school), my lack of membership did not prevent me from being involved in anything. But now that I'm more or less grown, I feel like I'm not really involved in the church the way I want to be.

One of the reasons I balk is this: I know my beliefs differ from theirs on a few key issues.

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Ok, so today I called up the Funeral Director's Association and asked them what steps I need to take in order to become a funeral director.

The director, on the other end of the line, chuckled, which I take to be a bad sign. But he did give me a handy list of steps -- beginning with handing over my aspiring funeral director resume.

As far as that resume goes, the sad truth is, I have been unemployed for a month, during which time I have fretted and tweaked that resume until it has the thin, pinched look of an aging beauty queen, over-made up with unusual bullet-gifs from the backwoods of Microsoft Word.

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