In case anyone's interested that I didn't already let know, I'm keeping a blog of my Russian travels at

http://hobogoes.blogspot.com

That's right, folks--I got a call yesterday informing me that I've been accepted to the study abroad program. Never mind the fact that they said they'd contact me at the latest by two weeks ago ( Read more... )

It's been a month since I turned in my application to Smolny-Bard in St. Petersburg, and each passing day of silence on their end has left me in a greater state of restrained agitation and neurosis about whether or not I'll actually get in. Maybe I was just deluding myself in thinking I could do this, maybe even the Ivy League label isn't enough to ( Read more... )

The good news: the days are getting longer.

The bad news: the days are getting longer.

Why can't they just include the postage with the price of a postcard and save me the trouble of buying postage stamps, too?

--and I'm leaving tonight!

I'll be back in Ithaca on the 15th in the afternoon. See y'all soon!

From Amtrak.com:

Empire Builder

Trains 7(8) and (9) are canceled between Minneapolis and Seattle/Portland, with no alternate transportation. Trains 8(9) and (10) are cancelled between Seattle/Portland and Minneapolis, with no alternate transportation.

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Can they even do that? The tracks are apparently underwater, and I am marooned in ( Read more... )

I am swelling like a big balloon full of wind, color, and music.

Today I went to a sledding hill on the outskirts of Sandpoint--the real big one that all the kids go to, a hill that used to be a ski slope before the big resort opened--that I never knew existed when I lived here, and I took my nieces and nephew there.

It's today!