Hey there -- I was surprised to see how many of you are still using LiveJournal and so glad to read about your lives from my lonely 116th street temp room. The whole of Columbia/Barnard moved out just in time for me to bring my stuff down the hall and take to my bed for 48 hours with a nasty head cold, and the complete isolation I've been in - and ( Read more... )

I AM GOING TO BARNARD.

Greetings from exotic Poughkeepsie, New York! Vassar is beautiful, but the only thing I miss as much as my friends and family is air conditioning. If being trained to be a playwright means learning to live without unnecessary pleasures - and as long as, unlike the professionals, we can be guaranteed a place to live and dinner on the table - then ( Read more... )

My head makes a funny sort of creaking noise when I turn it. I'm pretty sure that's a good sign of sleep deprivation. I'm also pretty sure that over the last two months, I've brushed off not only my creaks and pains but also my newly-surfacing quirks with the wonderfully vesatile sleep-deprivation excuse ( Read more... )

Hi. First things first. I made this greeting for my host sister in Spain:
( Mis primos dice... )

Zah! I'm in such a rush, but I wanted to wish you all happy holidays before I left. I don't want to say that I'm going to Paris because then I might sound like one of those people who, you know, goes to Paris. And I certainly am not the kind of person who "goes to Paris." Heavens no ( Read more... )

Apparently a few of you read this! I'm really flattered. So I thought I'd start out with a rewarding little piece of information I obtained courtesy of reference.com ( Read more... )

If you read this, if your eyes are passing over this right now, even if we don't speak often, please post a comment with a memory of you and me. It can be anything you want, either good or bad. IRL-memory or e-memory ( Read more... )

Wow. That is wonderful.

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Back to work.

2:30 a.m. and my caffeine of choice is Silk Soylatte. I've cranked out two pies and twelve "tartletts," made a mess of the kitchen, and determined that sleep on the night before Thanksgiving is really rather unnecessary - after all, everyone consumes more under extreme exhaustion, and I may just save myself from that last turkey sandwich in mid- ( Read more... )