Five years ago today, I landed back in the United States after nearly a year abroad in Australia. I hugged my friends goodbye at the airport in Melbourne, unsure if I would ever make it back there to visit. I went walked through security trying not to completely lose it ( Read more... )

When I thought about the idea of having my own apartment, I was really excited about all of the things I would be able to do, like pee with the bathroom door open. After over a month by myself, I think I might be losing it a bit. While living on my own does mean that I could theoretically walk around nekkid (although it's much too cold for that ( Read more... )

I do not want to be an innovator. Innovation and invention is very highly respected...and rightly so. It's just not what I aspire to do. I want to be the right hand person of that innovator; the person that helps the inventor get things done ( Read more... )

I don't know if it's because tornadoes scare the everlovin' crap out of me or what, but I think that these stormchaser guys are batshit crazy ( Read more... )

Apparently I'm not satisfied searching for regular jobs I'm not qualified for and I am now looking in the most...unconventional places ( Read more... )

My cousin Laura is engaged. Her mom told me that if I wanted to find a guy, I should pray. I think that if I prayed to my Catholic God for a man with which to have pre-marital sex, not get married in a Catholic church, possibly not have any biological children, and probably still not go to church on a regular basis, He'd probably be more likely ( Read more... )

One of the most ridiculous things I remember from growing up is cleaning the whole damn house before we had company. It was up there with the china cabinet full of plates we couldn't use and decorative towels that weren't for drying our hands ( Read more... )

It's been 64 weeks since my last update...I always want to update when I am nowhere near a computer and then forget all of the pithy things I wanted to say hours later when I have access. But some of my friends have been bugging me to start a blog because I am the "funny one" and I figured, why start one when I have one that I've had since I was a ( Read more... )

Graduation...job hunting...hiked Mt. Washington in a thunderstorm...Simon, one of my rats, died...been thinking about becoming an egg donor and being able to pay off a significant amount of my credit card debt if someone wants my eggs...then thought about whether or not someone would want my (25% unknown, 25% not well known and very possibly crazy ( Read more... )

I went to my first "Take Back the Night" event tonight. My team volunteers at the YWCA on Tuesdays with an employee, Dave, that is a CYNH alum. Last year for TBTN, they had some Heroes come out, so Dave invited our Devoted Heroes (high school students) and our 8th grade Heroes. Overall, I think we had about 12 come ( Read more... )