I am sitting in a coffee shop in Vietnam watching teenagers in the park across the street play a game that appears to be kind of a combination of soccer and badmitton with a roadblock for a net ( Read more... )

Today I ate a lot of bizarre but delicious fruit for breakfast, went to Angkor Wat for my history class, and then had dinner with some French kids who told me that my French is "ahh, OK" and that I look like Grace Kelley.

It was a good day!

Alright, I like my African Politics teacher, but having EIGHT possible essay questions that we are supposed to prepare for is a little bit much.

Also, can anyone tell me what the current google icon is supposed to be?

Today:  "Linda always says, 'Griffin, you have such a dry sense of humor' and I'm like 'Linda, you don't even know me.' "
~My roommate ( Read more... )

Can I just take a minute to express how many good things have happened to me in the past week ( Read more... )

I have more or less embraced the fact that anytime I have to perform any permutation of those things called "errands" in the adult world, I inevitably turn into Lucy Riccardo and the result is something that is fairly embarrassing at the time but that in retrospect I can appreciate as good physical comedy ( Read more... )

OK, as far as I can tell there is some kind of an inter-apartment complex corn hole tournament going on. I have never seen so many Keystone Light cans in one place. I am a little annoyed because we are on hour 3 of the game going on directly outside of my bedroom window and I am trying to write a paper, but it's also finally nice out and they're ( Read more... )

Okay, in retrospect, borrowing LOST on DVD from Jamie was one of the worst ideas I've had in a long time. Especially when I have to write papers on vocational education training in Tanzania, the Canterbury Tales, and, please kill me- the role of the individual with respect to society in utopian literature. I am so ready to be done with utopia. I ( Read more... )

Oh birthdays oh myyyyyyyyyyyy.

I get a kick out of the fact that the serving size on my chocolate rabbit is "1/4 bunny."

I am experiencing acute study abroad envy from having friends in Peru, Nicaragua, Senegal, France, Spain, and Taiwan right now. I really need to figure out a way to visit at least one of them.

Dear school,

Please end now.

Love,

Becky

It's about to get cold again, it's never going to stop raining, and oh great, we're in a recession and we've been in Iraq for 5 years this week and I'm never going to be able to get health insurance or afford a house.

And really, does my childhood friend have to be a cocaine dealer?

Blahhh I hate mid-Marchhhhhh.