Over the past few years, I have become less easily bothered and upset by things-- I'm not unflappable, but maybe not-too-easily perturbable. This is good. I am still very easily flustered and distressed by boys and boythoughts, but this will change, right? I am assuming my steadiness in most other areas will seep into this one. I had a boyfriend ( Read more... )

I'm leaving the country in nine hours. Considering I never touch this thing anymore, I won't post here, but my family wants me to keep a travel blog, so here it is.

Au revoir!

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Oh man, every time I step into my room, I get so pissed that I have so much stuff, and then pissed again at the stuff I have. Obviously, books are to be kept, clothes are to be tossed, but mainly, I have got to get rid of all of the junk that accumulated through high school and college with memories or whatever attached that have made discarding it ( Read more... )

SC State Treasurer by day, coke dealer by... day, too.

My uncle told my whole family about this over dinner. We agreed that it was a shame that that "pig-lovin', voter-registration forgetting fool" wasn't implicated, too.

In other news, oh god, children are exhausting.

us --> my mom's coworker --> her scientology bigwig brother --> Tom Cruise --> Nicole Kidman --> Ewan McGregor
us --> other coworker --> coworker's cousin, awful author Dan Brown --> Ron Howard --> Tom Hanks --> Elton John --> Paul McCartney
me -->  Nick Neptune --> Ted Kennedy --> JFK, Barack and John and Bill
us --> grandad --> Gene Kelly ( ( Read more... )

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I had dreams all night about staying with a family in France during August doing au-pair work, but the actual email I received in response to my answer to a classified I found on Paris craigslist was less satisfactory-- they need someone earlier than I can get there, and for only 80 EUR/week? Nahhh, not for a full time job taking care of adorable ( Read more... )