is keeping old letters masochistic? what happens to sentiments no longer felt?

just points to ponder as i put my entire existance into boxes.

ps- how relevant is billy joel to moving out?

so i was in costa rica for two weeks and two days. when i arrived i spoke no spanish, and well that changed in exponential rates. i still speak very very little spanish, but i speak enough to survive. i lived with the nicest family, two brothers around my age and a younger sister, and a sweet mother and quiet father. they were very patient with me ( Read more... )

i am off to costa rica in a few hours. i can't sleep. i am aching with nervousness and excitement. it is now hitting me that i am going headstrong into a new country where i don't speak the language and i am unsure of some arrangements. i know it will all work out for the best, life often does. still i am very very nervous. what will it be like? ( Read more... )

well since my birthday was almost two weeks ago, i would say an update is in order. a few new things in life to report on...

i quit my catering job and took a part-time babysitting gig for a family in squirrel hill. they have two sons, ari age 4 and nadav age 2. ari is best friends with eitan, the boy i've been babysitting since his birth, so that's ( Read more... )

so for days i have been kind of nervous about my birthday and what the festivities will be like, but see, here it is just 30 minutes into my 19th year, and really if nothing else great happens, i had those good birthday moments. in the hour leading up to my birthday, i sat outside and read "on the road" and drank some rose tea. then with about 15 ( Read more... )

so ever since i got home right before bed i'd go out on my front porch and read a book. at first it was great because the weather was cool, so i'd wrap up in two sweaters and drink a cup of hot tea. but now it's hot and balmy all the time and there are mosquitos that buzz around my flavored tea. the reading is enjoyable, but i much prefer the ( Read more... )

i hate it here. with a passion, i can't stand being here. it's just too... depressing ( Read more... )

thank you daisy miller. you were a martyr for the progressive woman, a role model and idol i seek to perpetuate. you are an intolerable flirt and i am one too.

so like many others, i came down with the flu. sol got sick as well, and at just about the same time as i did. i came down with it yesterday morning. i felt bad, but i still went to class and wrote my hebrew in class essay and then went home for a nap. i made it to english, but that's when i began feeling like shit. i skipped jazz and took my ( Read more... )

i know, i am a loser and a follower, but i'd like to know what others think of me too....

so yeah, johari - http://kevan.org/johari?name=emmogood

ps- ghost world has a fuckin awesome cast