so i just got done hanging out with kelley. we had dinner in this very bustling gay neighborhood and talked. she went to wellsley, where she graduated in may and will start teaching english for a year. she was an extra in "mona lisa smile" and got to meet an alum who was the spokeswoman for grace kelley AND went on a date and was kissed by carrey ( Read more... )

today was my only full day by myself in madrid ( Read more... )

i got this as part of an e-mail from gwen and laughed so hard that the guy next to me stared:

anyway, i hope youre enjoying yourself. i slept in a
mushroom forest last night.

i need a SIM card...

i just got into madrid today. i spent the night at a nice hotel in london and got some shady fish and chips, finally ( Read more... )

right now i'm in belfast, ireland, at a hostel called "paddy's palace." i hopped on a train here from dublin this morning.
on monday, i got to dublin and was reunited with sheila, who was my mentor at my internship this summer. we saw each other at the airport and freaked out. i missed her ( Read more... )

in oxford at nick's. this city is so quaint. he lives with three others, including sofia from leon. i think they're all going to come visit me in spain--we've been practicing spanish.
his friends are so interesting. of the american rhodes scholars there's a girl named heather, an analytical philosophy phd student who's an athiest but goes to ( Read more... )

after that initial bout of lonliness, i've turned around and fallen in love.
i hope i get the internship in london, i have to live here.
yesterday evening i returned to my hostel and met nat, a 19-year-old drama student in london who was waiting for her apartment lease to start. we argued about the difference between biscuits and cookies ("that's a ( Read more... )

in london at internet cafe with french music, coffee, pasta and camera sales and repairs?
saw british museum.
bags dropped off at hostel.
lonely...

i started getting chest pains today because my dad keeps calling me or coming up to me, literally every hour, haranguing me about how i'm "going to get mugged and be homeless or miss my program" in europe. it doesn't stop. when he's at home, literally every ten minutes he walks over to me and says something. i haven't had the chance to actually be ( Read more... )

it was about ten years ago that kelly and i would spend hours playing imaginary, role-playing games in our front yards. i was in the fifth grade, she was in fourth. we'd been playing these games since we were in preschool, and i was getting to the age where i felt embarassed to be playing them, but still had this urge to play ( Read more... )