( Got a Ways to Go... )

My friend at law school casually mentioned attending her college's 5 year reunion in May. The two of us first bonded over how hard it was when we got out of school--2003--so I realized that this is my 5th year being a New College graduate and my 5th year of writing this livejournal. On the one hand, it feels like I was just there yesterday. But on ( Read more... )

I kind of hadn't thought about this trip much, and now suddenly I am here. It is nice and cool out here. Wonderful. So far we haven't done much aside from have 2 delicious vegan meals (the West coast is so much nicer to my kind)--a fried "chicken" sandwhich and "steak" with Thai noodles--and we went to a taping of a Bill Mahr online show. It was ( Read more... )

I am still shocked by the news that I missed while I was gone. I've been listening to the news since I got home, but I really didn't find out much about what was going on while I was gone unless someone happened to mention it to me or it was big enough to make the tiny international section in Costa Rica that included mostly news from other ( Read more... )

Since returning and becoming somewhat reaclimated to my great, hot, concrete city, this is what I have done (in relatively chronological order):

• Artscape: My first thought, upon overhearing a college age kid bragging about getting her dog drunk, was that this was not the best first place to go on return to the States. But then Common was ( Read more... )

I am home. It is really weird here.

I am a little nervous about coming home. I started thinking about everything I have to do when I get back and it is overwhelming. It´s always overwhelming, but this is the longest I´ve been away so it´s the most overwhelming it´s ever been for me. I am trying to divert my attention by reading lots of The Brothers Karamazov, which is taking me back ( Read more... )

Funny things I have seen here that you don't see in the U.S ( Read more... )

Here in Esteli I have returned to the homestay life, which is fortunate because I spent the earlier part of this week combating a stomach bug. I took some enormous orange pills that my host mother gave me and they seem to be doing the trick. I suppose this sort of thing is inevitable when you travel for a while, though it really isn´t fun as I ( Read more... )

León!

I know, I just updated, but I got to León today and I am very excited about it. I posted pictures with descriptions in the midst of my excitement (and a much welcome rainstorm which has cooled things off quite a bit). Here´s the link.

I am down to my last 10% of free space on flickr, so I am not sure what to do when I run out of ( Read more... )