Just so everyone knows, this entire computer is completely in German. All the menues, little thingies that pop up with messages, and even the buttons you hit to log in and cancel and everything are COMPLETELY AUF DEUTSCH. It's slightly out of control ( Read more... )

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Financial aid is making my life miserable. They have lost my tax forms and W-2's TWICE. AS IN TWO TIMES. I've faxed them. I've taken them in person. And yet they lose them. And they are now giving me shit about not having my account in order. No one is friendly. No one apologizes for losing my information. No one says "oh yes, we made TWO mistakes ( Read more... )

I had this teacher once, who always said, "Write what you feel, Bri. If you do that, you'll always be the writer I know you are." She always had more confidence in me than I had in myself. She always told me I was the best writer she's ever had. Her confidence inspired me to try, to stretch, to look at writing as something more than schoolwork. ( Read more... )

The clouds were absolutely beautiful this evening. I just wanted to find an isolated hilltop, lay down and stare up at the glorious sky. Huge puffy clouds, thin whispy ones, ominous dark ones in the distance. All shot through with the yellow, orange, pink, red and blue of the setting sun. It was a Monet sky, as perfect as any painting ever could be ( Read more... )

This past Tuesday was the two week mark. All summer I've been telling myself I did not have permission to panic, freak out, or in any way get out of sorts because of leaving for Austria. For the past four months, when any thought of a negative or scared nature crept into my head, I said "Nope. Haven't reached the two week mark. Chill out." And I ( Read more... )

OH MAN. The greatest time of this summer occurred on Friday night, and lasted from approximately 8:10 PM to 11:30 PM. THE DAVE MATTHEWS BAND CONCERT. IT WAS SO AMAZING. Words just cannot do it justice. All I can say was that every single song was SO MUCH better live than on their albums, and I was actually IN THE PRESENCE of freaking DAVE MATTHEWS ( Read more... )

Pain is cool because it means I'm not going to die ( Read more... )

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Driving down Lancaster Avenue today, my mom and I both stopped mid-conversation, as the same sign caught our attention. We stared, mouths agape, and then burst into fits of uncontrollable laughter ( Read more... )