6/30/06: I walked out of the apartment at 2pm with my hair still wet from the shower. I didn't mind. I let Brooklyn dry my hair. My heart was in my throat as I watched the door close behind me; knowing I didn't have a key and the door locked automatically ( Read more... )

And just for fun, I'm applying to Columbia and Boston U...:-P

I vomit my sins from my mouth ( Read more... )

You know, in a past life I was Cathrine the Great's horse...

So I was in the middle of making this guy's drink today, and I forget exactly what he said, but he said something that made me think he was a Barista at another Starbucks. So I says to him, I says, "Are you a Barista?" ~as I'm pouring the steamed milk~ "No, are you?" ~looking up at him from the drink I'm making~ "No...but I did stay at a Holiday ( Read more... )

A little while ago someone asked me what I want to be when I grow up. Here's what I said ( Read more... )

I am going to the Ukraine in the summer! I will be in a resort facility about two-hours outside Lviv for the month of July. The Catholic University of Ukraine has a summer English immersion program for its English-learning students. The University offers volunteer positions for native English speakers to come and teach the language. Does the ( Read more... )

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I once lived at a monastery. It was in the Orkney Islands of Scotland, just south of the Arctic Circle. I can still smell the salt of the North Atlantic at three o'clock in the morning, when I would wake up for morning Mass. There was a hill at the mouth of the path leading down to the cells where the monks and I slept. The island was no more ( Read more... )

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