my, it has been A-WHILE ( Read more... )

kirsten gillibrand ( Read more... )

wow... i just realized, as i began writing this, that i have already been home for five days. that's a little crazy ( Read more... )

... because sometimes your conservative high school friends' facebook statuses are worth sharing:

Billy Joe* would be fine with the idea of Global Warming if there wasn't so much evidence against it.

HUH?

*names have been changed to protect the foolish

well, i'm all packed and ready to go. i managed to do just about all of it in just two days; i don't generally live in squalor, so packing up was not about cleaning, it was about sorting, stowing, and disposing ( Read more... )

all year i have been looking forward to watching at least ONE colts playoff game at a bar in NYC when i get home in january. ALL YEAR.

and they get eliminated in the first round.

ugh.

(go giants, i guess.)

tonight the kaigan-gays are going to our last "global kiss" (the monthly gaijin party for foreigners and the japanese boys who love us). it's a little sad. it's always a seriously raucous night that ends sometime nearing daybreak. my friend aaron and i figured out that we have been to every one this contract, with the exception of april. that's ( Read more... )

new year's eve was really fun. i think because i missed throwing my annual new year's eve GRAND soiree, i felt it necessary to throw a little pre-party in my apartment here. so we drank here for a bit, went to our local bar for the countdown (where i actually MISSED the countdown because two of my friends and i couldn't find the roof access where ( Read more... )

do i stay in "atlantic america" or move back to "the central north american republic ( Read more... )

so i'm really rather fine about being away from home for christmas. i've done it before and--quite frankly--i find the whole "holiday experience" less stressful when i'm away from home. no fault of my family or anything, but it just loses the pressure and anxiety when i'm floating on a ship or halfway around the world ( Read more... )