My dream is still to live in one big house with everybody I love and not have to miss anybody. Not one person.

I am reminded at the moment of how all my one-day-after-declaring-peace-studies-major election day idealism came crashing down in a fog of halloween candy and watching Tim Russert be a douchebag two years ago. I feel much better about the situation today. Whether or not Congress changes dominant parties, people are calling for change, and I think ( Read more... )

To all my brilliant friends who are taking the GRE tomorrow, I wish you the best of luck. Audrey, may your mind be transcended by all things uselessly calculus-related for one day, Amy CTY, may you be able to channel the very souls of every author throughout history, except for the creepy ones, maybe not so much channel their souls as to be able ( Read more... )

If anyone has the ability and/or willingness to exorcise the gremlin that has taken up residence in my right lung, please let me know.

In other news, I love my classes like whoa.

Life is full of having to move on from things and places and people, and my own life has been characterized by a lot of not wanting to do that. So I guess it's good that it's starting early for this particular moving on stage of my life. And I guess, when I'm honest, I'm ready to move on from some of the struggles in this place. Some of the ( Read more... )

I have to say, if I'm disappointed about anything I did over the past 3 odd years, it's that there are so few people with whom I can share the things that are foremost on my mind right now. I'm not sure when and where I screwed up- and I guess I wouldn't say that I'm unhappy, either- just a bit disappointed. I guess the ability to forge on ahead ( Read more... )

Oh, the evil lady in the Languages office makes me so ANGRY! You can't just say to people that the dean, THEIR BOSS, "wouldn't say" what she said to you! AND IF YOU'RE GOING TO BE EVIL, AT LEAST MIMIC MY IMPECCABLE POLITESSE WHILE YOU DO IT, ASSHOLE. I am able to disguise my loathing for you through my overly-high-pitched phone voice- YOU DO THE ( Read more... )

I might have just found something to do with myself next year. I figure I'm not going to get any kind of great job anyway, right? I mean, it might be a great job, but I probably won't find a lucrative one. So I probably won't really save any money anyway. So my only net gain coming out of the year would be the fact that I have to pay off my ( Read more... )

I may not have won the war with the Romance Languages and Literature department, but I got my Spanish class, thanks to the lovely professor at Saint Mary's. Ha! Who wants males in their Spanish class after all? Not me!

Now I have to figure out how to get my bike over to South Bend...

Ok, I have to say, the worst thing about being home and having enough time to sleep (both excellent things in themselves) is the dreams. Let's see- in the past week I have had ( Read more... )