yesterday was my first day of public museum work ( Read more... )

why is everything in my life so hard?

because i'm totally batshit fucking insane, that's why.

although i seemed to have come to a point where it's just funny again. and that's ok.

jeeesus.

this has been

a very good weekend.

not having to work, and not having to drive to charlotte, is amazing. as much as i like seeing the nieces and my friends and doing lots of things in a weekend, i don't think i realized just how valuable being at home is to my sanity. saturday i got up and walked to the art store on franklin and went to locopops ( ( Read more... )

it's almost 1 am and i am only halfway through a german paper ( Read more... )

so, in the interest of debunking that all i do in my lj is gripe, here's some happy for ya ( Read more... )

i am so stupidly happy to be living in carrboro proper. and i am in love with my little duplex with its big kitchen. but being set up for happiness doesn't always work out . and this is lame.

today staples made me cry. which is probably less than surprising, really, because i am a big emotional baby. but the absurdity of coming home to my happy ( Read more... )

today is our last real day in peru. tomorrow is all travel and airports, and then we arrive in charlotte in the morning on the second. so today is the last day that i have to correlate every waking moment with another human, and the last day for trying spanish, and the last day for soaking up this south american atmosphere, to enjoy this place that ( Read more... )

so i was totally wrong. and cusco is the perfect way to end this trip because it´s fucking gorgeous.

more later.

i´m in lima...

becky has decided that we´re done with the internet, though, so i´m not sure how many minutes i have to post.

pretty happy that field school is over. not the work part so much, but definitely the living with 20 other people part. except now i´m traveling with just one and that has its ups and downs, too. mostly i don´t think i´m going ( Read more... )

today was our last day in the field. i drew some beautiful profiles and then beck and malena and i walked into town and gave the kids there a soccer ball. it was kinda awkward, but pretty cool ( Read more... )