why vassar is shitty ( Read more... )

i should feel fantastic but i mostly just feel disappointed and unfulfilled.

sooo, i had an absolutely lovely weekend in galway and the aran islands and i think i need to express the wondeful things i'm doing in ireland here before i find something to complain about again. we had the most beautiful weekend ever, which was so lucky, because the weather can easily be awful out on the aran islands. but it was sunny and warm ( Read more... )

i'm having a really angry day ( Read more... )

i ALWAYS think that gay boys are hitting on me. and, as they are gay, they never actually are. this isn't usually a problem, except for this time, when i've developed a crush on said gay irish boy and thought that when he asked for my number it was a hitting-on thing before learning tonight that he fucking likes boys.

god damn it.

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so apparently this superbowl thing is kind of a big deal? huh. interesting that it took me going to ireland to be exposed to so much superbowl fervor...

it amazes me to find out how much american education, at least in high school, revolves around england and british perspectives of history, except for the stuff where we're better than them. no one told me anything about irish history, besides the whole potato famine thing and how it affected american immigration. why is it that i have english ( Read more... )

it's hard to be good about updating people about my life when i can't get online for more than an hour or so every day, and when even the freaking library doesn't have wireless in all of the building. in any case, here i am. hi! i really really can't believe that i've been here for more than two weeks already. part of me feels like i've been here ( Read more... )

hi kids! this is the first time i've been able to get onto the internet for more than two minutes in the past week or so. i am officially living in Cork, Ireland as of yesterday, and so far, so...overwhelming. the campus is beautiful -- it's really lush and green, and there's this big river that runs through campus. the city is really lovely, too. ( Read more... )