this morning i woke up in pula, croatia. then i took a three hour bus ride through slovenia and into italy. i spent three hours in italy and killed some time before my fifty minute bus ride to the airport where i took a two hour flight to london. four countries in one day. im exhuasted. i am sunburned. and i have three different currencies in my ( Read more... )

this is just something i want to say. i just got back from spending ten days in italy and it was amazing. however after visiting the vatican i feel a little weird. it was an interesting place. st peter's basilica was absolutely amazing. the entire building is made of gold, bronze, and marble and the most ornate and elaborate place i have ever been ( Read more... )

i just finished a three-thousand word essay on whether women had a choice in marriage in medieval islam. last weekend i was in scotland. two weeks ago scott and i were in paris. i've been in london for a little over two months now. life keeps sneaking up on me really fast. i keep feeling really old and it's weird. where i am now is a lot different ( Read more... )

on  wednesday i attempted to see radiohead for free, but had to settle for seeing ed o'brien walk by me in the street. i then met some random londoners who took me to get indian food for the first time and then invited me to some of their future gigs in the band they're in ( Read more... )

before i become an ash that falls into the dark shadows and never seen again i hope i'm an ember that will glow for a long time. long enough to be satisfied. long enough to do what i want. this only happens once so it might as well be the best it can possibly be. live without regrets and just accept what will happen. europe is here and waiting to ( Read more... )

In about nineteen days I will leave New York for a long time. In about a month I will move to London for a long time. Life is suddenly becoming very real and moving very fast. Where did everything go? I'm in school paying probably too much for my education and I'm not too sure what I am going to do with it after I'm done. I go to a school that I ( Read more... )

i've been feeling a lack of art in my life lately. i need to do something creatively stimulating and i don't know what. i'm used to having my entire life taken up by theater and music and since i've come to new york i've had a lack in both of those. i feel the need to design and build something. i know i'm in new york which is the ideal place to do ( Read more... )

in some of my classes we've been talking about the philosophes and Confucius. people who questioned their situation and had "radical" ways of thinking. they believed that people should be treated better than current circumstances and had ideas that sparked revolutions. i'm not saying that we need a violent revolution and an over throw of the ( Read more... )

i've been back in new york for about a week and a half now and it feels like so much longer. summer seems like the distant past and i think i'm ok with that. this summer was exactly what i hoped it would be. there were some rough points at the start, but over all i couldn't have asked for anything better. wedding in vermont. trips to new york. road ( Read more... )

the coals burned like the setting sun over the lake while lights of towns danced across the distant shore. the lights painted our shadows on the cold green grass and the impressions of bodies took shape. familiar melodies drifted off over the water as it merged with the black night sky. a gentle breeze rocked the hammock and our voices were carried ( Read more... )