It's hard to sum up many months of your life into small perfect paragraphs. And while I don't feel like I need to write perfectly all the time, I sometimes wish I could vomit everything I'm thinking onto the page/screen and have it BE perfect ( Read more... )

Boys, boys, boys ( Read more... )

Oh and, hi LiveJournal; long time no talk. :)

I just went through and labeled all my notebooks from my first term at U of O until now ( Read more... )

I'm completely delirious and have 2 and a half pages left to get through before noon. It's sad that I got excited about seeing daylight after being in this flourescent hell hole all night. Oh well, I did it to myself!

FDGJFDNJSDNFJNADFFGKDFKGMDKANGIDFGIAKAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA kill me.

Life is unfair. Amelia was/is tremendous. More grace, spunk, confidence, and optimism than anyone I have ever met.

I can't stop staring at the cieling, hoping to see her again.

Sometimes, life is just so good it hurts. I need to do a real update soon, but I'm drunk and loving everything. Things are great; I love the world and most things in it. I'm so excited to go back to Africa one fine day. You should come with me...yes, you sir ( Read more... )

We put Maggie to sleep tonight. I feel terrible, but she needed to go; and I just hope she's in a better place. She was the BEST dog any kid could have had growing up and I could never thank her enough for being so great.

I love you Maggie Lynn...I'll never forget you doodleface.


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I wake up this morning and find myself wishing, just for a moment, that I was back in the bottom bunk in the humid house at Okpongolo Junction in Accra. I’m shrouded in fleece blankets and completely comfortable, but I want to be laying on the moss green sheet I bled and rubbed dirt on for 6 weeks, deciding whether decency by wearing clothes was ( Read more... )

This is the weirdest feeling I've ever felt in my entire life. Re-entry from third world conditions is INNNNNNSANE.

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