spain is beautiful. i´m in this really pretty town called cadiz now, sleeping on a hostel´s rooftop terrace and riding bikes along the coast all day with nick. two days ago we were in jerez, a town where the air smells amazing because of the sherry they make there, and we wound up spending the night hanging out with these local kids in a parking ( Read more... )

this morning i packed my life and sleeping bag into a monstrous orange backpack and tomorrow i am leaving to celebrate independence in our nation's capital (sans backpack). i just can't stay here anymore; i am too restless and antsy and finally the nervous excitement has caught up with me ( Read more... )

my sunburn is doing that prickly pins-and-needles thing and it hurts but is also kind of funny. i've been at the seashore for the past six days. it was lovely but now it is nice to be home. this morning i watched about ten dolphins swimming but by the time i got into the ocean they had moved on. last night i saw a spectacular sunset - perhaps one ( Read more... )

today i realized that the oprah's book club edition of anna karenina is about a million pages longer than my translation and goes into much greater detail with extended dialogues on russian politics and communism and such. i'm pretty bummed out that i've been missing out on what tolstoy was actually writing. ugh i should have gone with oprah. or ( Read more... )

if anybody wants a braid ticket or two for monday's show in sayreville, let me know. please!

this weekend was like a trip down memory lane plus a very sad but awesome last-weekend-in-jersey. friday i went to jane's engagement party in PA and saw all my old high school friends, some of them for the first time in 4-5 years which is always weird. it was fun but totally bizarre. jane's dad got drunk and threw up in the backyard and i had to ( Read more... )

ughh worst day ever ( Read more... )

i'm completely in shock. i just checked my grades and it says "great ideas [that shook physics and the world]: A ( Read more... )

tomorrow tuesday may 11
7:30 pm $3
104 louis street attic new brunswick

the one am radio (on tour from CA, new album, great band)
crayon rosary (catchiest songs, cutest instruments)
huma (keyboards and guitars; sweet covers/sweet kids)
brian bond (i think he is playing ( Read more... )

i'm going to try really hard not to write ridiculously sentimental journal entries over the next few weeks. i'll probably fail, but i can at least confine them to private/friends-only as per yesterday's, so now is your chance to add or drop me from your friends list. suffice to say my life is very much in limbo mode right now, and its both tragic ( Read more... )