This week has definitely been a come down from the crazy happiness of last week. Partly, I think it may be a healthy thing - I can get back on my feet again after a bit of rushing headlong. But also it seems to mean a return of my random fears and feelings of inadequacy, which I could really do without. Fortunately, I can still take insane pleasure ( Read more... )

 Baking, laughing, sharing, fearing, dancing, drinking, thriving, kissing, sleeping. 
Those are last night's verbs, more or less in order.

 Olga filled in for Donna in Russian today. 
I am one of two people in the class whose names she knows - meaning I got to make a fool of myself 50% more often than anyone else!
But Olga (aka Mother Russia) is the shit. I want her as my Russian advisor.

To do this weekend:
Finally go to martial arts club
BBQ at Phi Psi
Practice adverbs and verbs in ( Read more... )

It's taken me a few days to find time, brain cells, and distance to write about this year's Eliot, my fifteenth. Of course, some things don't go well into words, and so have been left out. It's mostly an account for myself, so don't feel obligated to read. :)

( Almost heaven... )

Quotes of the week ( Read more... )

 List your favorite bands from A to Z (Also going to follow Martha and add my favorite song by that artist).

A. The Arcade Fire - "Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)"
B. Brigada Victor Jara - "São Gonçalo" 
C. Cindy Kallet - "We Rigged Our Ship"
D. The Decemberists - "Sons and Daughters"
E. Eliza Carthy - "Stumbling On"
F. Frank Sinatra - "Strangers in the Night"
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 the Class of 2009's graduation today seems almost scarier than ours last year - certainly more real. Last year, everything happened in a blur, and with the numbness of being thwacked over the head with something large and heavy (like college). It seemed like a dream, or like someone else's life, however cliche it may be. but today I have come so ( Read more... )

 Today was full of laughter, rice cakes, packing Elan, driving, bowling balls (well, really just the one), and unpacking Elan ( Read more... )

I was just reading old livejournal posts from last spring, when I was trying to decide whether to come to Beloit or not. I was undecided in large part because I had a negative impression of this part of the midwest, it felt "too brown". And then, too, Ian confirmed that worry by telling me that the midwest really does suck for much of the year ( Read more... )

 For the past 18 hours it has been pouring and lightening/thundering almost nonstop. It is just about my favorite thing in the world. This afternoon the second electric storm came through and it was raining torrentially, so I grabbed my umbrella and some flip-flops and went for a walk to the cemetery. Darrell and Tommy came to, so it was me and the ( Read more... )