i loove the feeling of rain, the smell of it, the sound of it...i just love the rain. and when you live in a country that relies on the rain as much as israeli does, you really learn to appreciate the value of it. i don't have an umbrella but luckily i have that 2-in-1 jacket my parents bought for me last year from the LL Bean outlet in ( Read more... )

earlier, as in prior to this blog being written, hillary and i were rocking out to 80's music...but 80's style rocking out...bobbing to the music and jut being slight freaks...but it's okay. roseanna was laughing from her room (she has a self imposed quarrantine placed on her b/c she is sick...hillary nor i can afford to be sick. i bought her ( Read more... )

so, i know i haven't written in awhile, and this seems to be my MO...up until about 3 weeks ago, it was really b/c i had nothin of interest to write about unless you wanted to read about the countless hours i spent sitting in the livingroom, watching canceled tv shows on various streaming websites (but no new shows that are still running, i already ( Read more... )

i have debated on writing a blog for a bit now, and those who know me know that, as per being jobless, i don't do much these days - i leave the house to go to volunteer work, the gym or some various errand that needs to get taken care of. other than that, i've become quite the hermit. some days it is nice, other days, i realize i am alone in the ( Read more... )

mmm...so is there anything new in the life of shira? not so much. though i did get my furniture on the 10th, that was massivly exciting. so now i am sitting in my room, on my bed, surrounded by things i haven't seen in over 2 years, bringing you this blog. of course, i have boxes that i haven't been able to unpack, b/c there is no room, so i ( Read more... )

so i've been on a downloading kick and today i got 3 cds - 2 breaking benjamin cds and........the latest goo goo dolls (which is like a year old). i know that when people typically define what music i listen to, they don't think of this band and A) i can't be defined by the music i listen to...or maybe i can b/c i, like my music, is ecclectic but ( Read more... )

yea, that's right..pro-cras-tin-a-shun. i want to get at least half my paper written today and it's only a bit after 1pm...i think i am good to go. eli is closing at the base this weekend even though he could go home but i'm working on a paper and his mom is in the south so he is going to stay at the base w/ his army buddy, jared. there's a ( Read more... )

took my last exam of my undergrad career today - the moed bet (second chance) exam for israeli foreign policy. it's a bit more pressure to take a moed bet b/c there are no second chances here - people who take this exam are people who failed the first, people who missed the first (like me) or people who passed the first exam but want to do better ( Read more... )

back at school for day 2 or my research extravaganza...i am getting all the websites this week so i can read them all over the weekend, take notes and print out notes to write a rough draft by a week from thursday. sounds like a plausible plan..of course. but, as we all know, shira is a procrastinator...a big one. but it will get done..it always ( Read more... )

so we are finally moved to raanana - we don't have internet yet though, the bezeq guy said it would take up to 24 hours, so hopefully by this afternoon, we will have internet in our apartment. so in the meantime, roseanna and i are sitting here, enjoying ice blendeds (mine is sunrise - it tastes like a creamsicle...it's amazing) and not looking ( Read more... )