I think all's fair in love, but not necessarily in war.

I wish we still wrote with quills, like in Elizabethan times.  Getting ink on my fingertips seems more writer-ly than typing on a keyboard and spell-check.

So far this year, I have gained a black clutch purse, a new package of thank-you notes, and a copy of Franny and Zooey and lost the ( Read more... )

I think differently during break. Not necessarily more objectively or less, but less academically, like maybe everything doesn't have to make complete, logical, fits-like-the-pair-of-slippers-you've-worn-for-two-years-perfect sense. So I go back to Duke determined not to over-analyze and make the same mistakes and concentrate too much on this or ( Read more... )

A thunderstorm in January is just strange. At least here it is ( Read more... )

She always loved airports. Perhaps she loved the feeling that life was transitory, or maybe she just felt important having somewhere to go and strong having no one to wait for her. She could see herself in ten or twenty years as one of those briefcase-carrying travelers, flying off to settle some big, intelligently-fought case. And she wondered ( Read more... )

It was a nice Christmas- nice frantically wrapping presents and making cookies and not having to sing at midnight mass but going anyway. typical, perhaps, but nice.

although I really have a thing for buying presents, no Christmas would be complete without some sort of list ( Read more... )

Back in IA....It's crazy cold here. But it's been nice to see my mom and sister...Iowa is a really difficult place to re-adjust to, though ( Read more... )

I don't know why but I always manage to wake up late on sundays- wake up late and wear randomly-thrown-together outfits and I'm always afraid I'm going to miss the 10:45 bus but I never do and it's really getting monotonous for the love of god let it leave without me one day just for a little change of pace but then again i have too many of those ( Read more... )

I spoke too soon ( Read more... )

I've had an interesting week so far. Interesting is too dull a word but I'm honestly too preoccupied to try think of another ( Read more... )