I recently talked with a friend who was losing herself. She'd been away from her family for months, in a foreign country, and she didn't know who she was anymore. Her dreams had taken her far, but now she found herself in free fall because there hadn't been anything holding her down in too long ( Read more... )

In middle school my best friend and I talked a lot about love and relationships as one is wont to do when boyfriends are something hypothetical and shrouded in pink haze and fantasies of being 16 ("When we're sixteen and grown-ups...") and so, so different from the gross, lanky little boys you go to class with. She was always the pragmatist, and ( Read more... )

I remember always hating people who made melodramatic "Bye, LiveJournal" posts, but I also remember hating people who didn't, leaving me in a limbo of checking their journal in futile hopes for an update ( Read more... )

I do log on to LiveJournal on a regular basis, but then I start to think about what to write and get disheartened. I returned home from Athens a month ago and am now trying to get past the year somehow. Which sounds gloomy, and I'm not really gloomy at all. Thing is, I am applying for graduate schools in the US and don't really see the point in ( Read more... )

I'm sure I'll go on a big LiveJournal kick soon enough, but for now this place seems rather dead to me. I have so much to say there's no point in even starting. I'm in Athens. Dug for six weeks. Was awesome. Now waiting for internship to start. Trying to have my first relationship with someone who is a 19-hour flight (well, sequence of flights) ( Read more... )

Dear Internet, this is what I've done during the past month ( Read more... )

My BA thesis is going to suck. I've reached a point where I just keep typing although I'm using exactly two sources (which is, I don't know, about ten sources too few) and am making absolutely no sense. I really, really like my topic, but I feel like I need a few years to figure it all out - as it is, I'm just writing down random tidbits on ( Read more... )

So hey, I'm interested in ancient Macedon. Anyone who spends more than three minutes in my presence knows this. I also like the student life. Hence, doing an MA and PhD in Macedonian studies = great idea, no ( Read more... )

I'm high on caffeine again and avoiding writing my BA paper by surfing graduate programmes websites. Catch 22: if I don't finish by BA soon (like, right now), I won't be able to apply for graduate programmes. Yet, it's so much more fun dreaming about studying under Roger Bagnall than waffling about Macedonia and stuff we can't even know because the ( Read more... )

Okay, so I never post about fandom/bandom/slash because no one cares, I'm lazy and can't really contribute anything. I wish I was one of those people who write fabulous stories, come up with crackalicious scenarios for fic, make epic picspams, post reviews or concert reports...the list goes on. Alas, I am not one of them. As it is, I can only say ( Read more... )