The stress of finding a job is finally gone - I will be a summer employee at Gelaterie Stam on 42nd.  I think I should open some sort of official savings account for college instead of just cashing my paychecks and stuffing 20-dollar-bills into an envelope ( Read more... )

She would love me even if I didn't have limbs.

I got into all of my colleges.  I still don't know how I'll pay for it but it feels good that I am accepted.

If you still don't believe in global warming, step outside.  It shouldn't be 60 degrees in late December in Iowa.

Here are some of my pictures from Mexico.  That's only a small fraction of the pictures I took; I'll put more up when I get home.

Hey yous

Mexico was amazing.  As soon as I figure out how to link to my photobucket album without requiring a password, I'll do that so you can see pictures if you want.

Right now I'm sitting on the porch at my lake house enjoying the feeling of the breeze on my bare skin, listening to my uncle play the fiddle, and taking in this beautiful cloudless ( Read more... )

I´m at the beach and it rules.  I'm gonna party tonight, surf tomorrow, and party tomorrow night.  This is fabulous.

So I am writing this entry from an internet cafe in Mexico City.  All of the websites are in Spanish and the keyboard is strange and kind of hard to use.

We've done so much shit in the past few days I don't even know where to start.  Some highlights:

--Mexico City is neither as dangerous nor as dirty as I thought it would be.  We teenage girls can ( Read more... )

If you wish to receive a letter or postcard from me while I'm in Mexico, leave a comment with your mailing address!

I'm just a little bit terrified to be going to a different country for a month to live with total strangers. I've always been independent but I've never done anything like this before. As soon as I get on that plane, I'm essentially on my own. Not that I'm without guidance or support, but once I'm down there there's nothing my friends or family ( Read more... )