Well, weather.com has assured me that in the upcoming week the weather here will finally behave normally, or at least consistently, instead of going from 73 degrees and sunny to 50 degrees and monsoon-ing over the course of 48 hours. I'm hoping that they're correct, because the weather has wrecked havoc on both my body and my mood. Between the ( Read more... )

Uh, does George Romero live in Georgia? Because I swear that driving home from campus today, he passed me in weird-looking red mini-van. Possibly a specially designed anti-zombie response vehicle, or maybe a Hyundai. I wouldn't normally think that there would be a lot of strange old men with coke-bottle glasses and stringy grey hair running ( Read more... )

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Blonde wig: $11.99

Devil horns: $4.99

Dressing up as Ann Coulter because I couldn't imagine anything more terrifying: Priceless


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Damn. I know you're supposed to be excited about your friends' successes, but it's a little hard not to be jealous when they're interviewing Gael Garcia Bernal and you're tryng to figure out how astrology fit into the ancient Egyptian construction of the cosmos ( Read more... )

So, this weekend was a very eventful one. I did not suspect that I could cram everything I wanted to do in this city into two and a half days... but I was wrong. Friday, Ben arrived, and after a quick lunch we came back to the house to relax for a little bit. That night we went to see a show with a friend of his, and wow, I don't think I have ( Read more... )

Oh, and by the way, I am going to be Ann Coulter for Halloween. All I need is a blonde wig and a pair of devil horns and I'm set. Well, perhaps not, but I don't even think that starving myself for the next week would get me that certain attractive withered-shell-of-a-woman look she has going on.

Man, I am glad that Project Runway is finally over. After today, Thursdays will no longer be known as, "Ugh, Hungover and Sleep-Deprived Thursday." Life is good.

oh boy. i knew that graduate school was going to be intense, i did not realize that it was going to leave me questioning whether or not i actually have time to sleep. and this is not an "up for three nights straight cramming for finals and writing papers" sort of thing (although i'm sure that is soon to come). this is more of an all the time ( Read more... )

so i am finally settled into my new apartment. for your enjoyment, here are a few photos...


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