i have now been back on CO for 4 days. My room still isn't unpacked. I'm still jet lagged a bit. I went to Boulder yesterday. After living there for almost 5 years, it was the first time I had been back in almost 9 months. It was a fucking beautiful day. I got out of my car on the hill; the weather was perfect, fall; the trees were changing, reds ( Read more... )

I am back in Taiwan after a few weeks in SE Asia. I had a great time. I am glad that I went. The last couple of days have been a headache however. I don't want to go into it too much because I am trying not to dwell on the shitty things but instead remember the good stuff, like the friends that I met, the places I went, and the things that I did. ( Read more... )

my roommate is a cunt bag.

I have been somewhat-trying to get ahead on graduate school apps since I will be traveling quite a bit in the next couple months, and then when I get home, I will be looking for a job and also living the Denver high life (i.e. being lazy). I am not quite ready to undertake writing statements of purpose, but I have been working on writing samples ( Read more... )

no work tomorrow! Hooray ( Read more... )

1. Itunes tells me that I haven't listened to this Mirah album in over two years. Weird mind things are attached to music. Weird time-traveling-feeling feelings. Like, I get the feeling that I am sitting in my old room in my old apartment. The sensory feeling of it. What the light in that room looked like, what the summer weather felt like, what ( Read more... )

1. I registered for the Lit GRE today. November 8. That gives me 18 days past when I get back from New York to study. I think (hope) I will be fine ( Read more... )

I have started and stopped writing a new entry a few times already about the Wilco song that I have been listening to lots and lots as of late. It's a song that I have always really liked (probably my favorite on that album) and it popped into my head a few weeks ago, so I listened to it. I heard something that I had never really noticed before: ( Read more... )

i am horribly excited for the new podcast of this american life. i just listened to the intro and i am wishing that i weren't too tired to listen to it: jessica, "we have dan savage matching wits with a 6 year old boy"... yeah. woo. excited. once again.

yeah. really that is all. there is a lot of dumb bullshit but i am excited. eeeee