what a day this has been, what a rare mood i'm in.
why, it's almost like being in love.
there's a smile on my face for the whole human race.
why, it's almost like being in love.Next Tuesday it will be two months with this boy, and I have yet to figure out how to describe him. He is Russian, by birth, but Iowan, by accent. He works at a non-profit ( Read more... )

I think this sentence may change my life:

"Expect to have your cigarette lighted."


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I think, although I am happy, I am also lonely. I long for the company & comfort of an understanding soul.

"My life will be sour grapes and ashes without you."

--- Daisy Ashford , The Young Visiters.

I think my iPod is dead. It won't charge, or turn on, or respond to threats or flattery or violent swearing. And I cannot get to the Apple store before Monday, maybe, if I'm lucky. The second you can't have music, silence suddenly seems deafening.

Tomorrow I start my new job, at 3:00PM on a Friday. Silly, but they wanted me to start during their ( Read more... )

I officially live in Alexandria, Virginia now. Well, pending the signing of the lease, which will arrive Monday. This is my third 4th of July in our fair nation' capital, and the first that appears not to be a cloudy mess. I have about 3 different parties to bounce between, and around 9:00 I will find a rooftop somewhere (the Hill? Rosslyn?) for a ( Read more... )

Flew to DC. Went to one interview with distinguished DC-based legal network to become the Assistant Director of their Student Division. Was offered the job within 24 hours. Secured cheap, cute, safe, metro-accessible housing within a few days. Am flying home tomorrow night and moving up within the next week to live in DC as long as my heart desires ( Read more... )

I miss Italy.


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Good morning. It's a cool and cloudy 8:28 a.m. here in Florence, and while I would normally be rushing to get out of the shower and get to class at this time, I am already showered, dressed, made up, blow dried, and even breakfasted. For some inexplicable reason, my body was eager to wake up and greet the day, and so here I am. About to leave 20 ( Read more... )

At this rate, before the semester is over I will have visited:

+ Pisa
+ Lucca
+ Sienna
+ Milan
+ Rome
+ Venice
+ Madrid
+ the Croatian coast
+ Budapest
+ Prague
+ Athens
+ Santorini
+ Capri
+ Pompeii
+ Sorrento
+ Cinque Terre
+ Frankfurt

And there is still so much more left to see.

What an enormous world it is.