It Really is Funny How We Feel So Much But Cannot Say A Word

I've been feeling very mortal lately. It's more than just being a drama queen too. It has to do with a few factors:
a: teaching people my brother's age starting in about three weeks,
b: I just graduated from college and am being thrust ever so abruptly into the real world (a world that involves such evils as repaying student loans),
c: the whole Scandal In The Episcopal Church thing is making my head spin at present (i.e.: Would I be so horrible if I chose to stay in the church despite my disagreeing with a gay bishop being ordained?), and
d: a man I have known for a very long time just passed away.

It's been a long day.