We drive by in the little white bus the rows and rows and rows of colorful shacks, sheds, pieces of tin somehow stuck together to make some sort of a room, a house. But I still cannot comprehend that this, this tiny building, all of these tiny buildings, if you can even call them buildings, are where people live. Real people live there. Children ( Read more... )

I have a lot of work to do. How can I do all this work when I'm in South Africa? And now I only have less than two weeks. Less than two weeks to go. I will be glad to get back, but aren't I supposed to get something out of this? Supposed to. What does that even mean. I feel like there is a lot undone, unsaid, unfinished, but then I have all ( Read more... )

I find that I have mixed feelings about being here. It's beautiful and I'm having a lot of fun and getting different perspectives on things. BUT ( Read more... )

So awesome

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I am totally getting dicked over at my job. Not only will I be laid off soon, but also...well, so I kinda run the office. I don't get commissions from renting apartments because I am not an agent. If I take an application while the agent is not here, she gets the commissions even though I am the one doing the work ( Read more... )

karaoke kept me up last night a bit too late. i was belting out "shadows of the night" when i realized my voice was starting to fail. evan said it was almost three at that point. i bolted. i am having to work today, which is more than mildly annoying.
it snowed a teensy bit last night.

MIDNIGHT ANGEL WON'T YOU SAY YOU WILLLLL

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i went to a meeting last night. it was about going to cape town for 4 weeks. there are two slots for people from my program. i hope i fill one of those. it's exciting and makes me nervous. but i would love to go. LOVE TO GO ( Read more... )

mockingbird don't sing

and it don't either

there are somethings we do and somethings that just happen to us. it is hard to change those which just happen.
but sometimes if we try real hard and concentrate real good, we can.

it doesn't always work.

and that can suck.

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