school is taking over my liffee. but in a good way, i guess? i love my classes, just finished my first week of workshops in my poetry class (which Gary Lilley's teaching!) and we'll be workshopping all semester. i'm excited to have to turn in a poem every week and get sixteen different people's feedback on it. and i'm planning on taking advanced ( Read more... )

short on tuition...maybe will work out soon? ended up putting $1,200 i'd saved up this summer towards it. birthday. 19, hoorah? classes again. i read Utopia by Sir Thomas More in five hours before renaissance lit 336. turned in a poem for workshop i could care less about. did poorly on a reading quiz and my phone rang in class second day of native ( Read more... )

busy day. and now i'm in the kitchen, trying to bake the brownies (which i will inevitably burn) that my mom thinks we should bring for the pot luck at the women's gathering (the one we still haven't left for so we'll be subsequently putting our tents up in the dark). my back is in so much pain from pulling it packing the car after having already ( Read more... )

being around my mom this much can't be good for me. or just being at home this much, which has only been five days ( Read more... )

so this was his reply, verbatum:

Dear Allison Jarrett,
We are looking for Englishi teachers who must be the native English speaker and
white people,and the age around 20, if you'd like to come, it's my pleasure.
Please tell me more about yourself.Such an birthday,sex,native or not and so on.
Thank you.
Wang Huaijun

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So- the following is an ACTUAL EMAIL that I sent today to an ACTUAL PERSON and I FORGOT TO EFFING PROOFREAD IT. I WILL NEVER GET THIS JOB IF MY GRAMMAR IS HEINOUS AND I LEAVE OUT VERBS AND I SOUND ABOUT 13 YEARS OLD. BLAHHH ( Read more... )

6 and 1/2 hours from cville- including the 40 minute ferry ride. 14 miles of wild, empty beaches, dunes, biting flies, some camping, not a mcdonald's in sight- with the ocean on one side and the sound on the other.
i want to go sooooooooo bad.

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nine o clock rain carried on wind ( Read more... )

god damn tired. completely packed, cleaned, and moved out of my room in dorland on saturday from 1-4pm and 10-11pm yesterday with an alumni reunion an hour away that i was at from four to ten. yeah. then got up this morning and went back to the event an hour away from 7am-4-pm. i want to dieee. and the event was ridiculous. let's say this- creeepy ( Read more... )