this week i was really missing piedmont park and trinity. i've found myself missing random things here, like splenda and walmart.

i chopped all my hair off today. it's too freakin hot here for long hair.

and......... tomorrow is my birthday! woohoo. the big 22. i'm so old.

today was a day full of destruction and suffering... and i have realized more about humanity in the past 24 hours than ever before. i literally saw a marriage crumble, rescued a starving dog and her 10 puppies' lives, and witnessed the tanzanian government order that all of the dukas (doo-kuhs=tons of shacks you see on the side of the road that ( Read more... )

this is why i don't go on myspace for extended periods of time... i actually feel like i have less friends. because i just look at everyone's picture and think, wow, i really have no desire to talk to them. or if they are a group of people i used to hang out with i think, wow, i'm really glad i'm not part of that anymore. they can just have ( Read more... )

ah... a pumzika day. (pumzika=swahili for rest/relax ( Read more... )

so cool story... i'm in arusha now, near Mt. Kilimanjaro, and there's a few people here from the states and yesterday i ended up helping this lady Miriam pick out art for her showroom ( Read more... )

soo... i'm in africa. dar is an amazing place and i've been having a great time. i will start working shortly, visiting villages and such and i'm looking forward to that. logistically it's been for the most part uncomplicated. emotionally however i don't think i expected what i have gotten. i feel like i don't have anyone here, or that one person ( Read more... )

fuck. packing.

no way in hell my bags are going to be 50 pounds.

tonight was amazing ( Read more... )

griffin makes me want cigarettes.
i have boycotted packing for fear that when i start putting stuff in my duffels, nothing is going to fit.
i said my final farewell to daddy d'z last night with Holivia.
krater had a good ole time with some shoes in the garage last night. grrr.
5 days til the next chapter of my life...