Thank you, Justin and Chris! It's Sunday afternoon here in Vienna and I have been working on attacking the piles of German homework (I guess Andrea figures that it's intensive and so we have nothing else to do with ourselves until classes start two weeks from tomorrow - wow, is it really already that close?) but I couldn't take it anymore. But ( Read more... )

Y'know, sometimes it's fun to be in front of a German keyboard just to have those extra letters of the alphabet at my disposal. The shortcuts don't work on my laptop except in Word, which is somewhat depressing because I do so enjoy them ( Read more... )

I have developed a bit of an opera addiction. *sighs* Last night was my second in as many evenings. Friday night was my first opera in six years (the last one was The Magic Flute when I was a freshman in high school). It was Tales of Hoffman by Offenbach. Pretty darn cool to see the State Opera Theater do an opera in the Vienna Opera house. I was ( Read more... )

Well good morning from Austria, everyone! Vienna's starting to feel less big and scary, so I suppose that means I'm settling in. Still no luck with my computer, but we know what's wrong now. Either my username or password has been put into the server incorrectly, causing everyone else to be able to log in on my computer except me. So hopefully ( Read more... )

Well, here I am in Vienna since Sunday. I guess I owe y'all a little bit of a description of what's going on right about now, so I'll do my best, and to keep it relatively short since there's a whole bunch of people waiting ( Read more... )

Well, everyone, I'm here. Not on my own laptop yet; have to wait for someone to set that up for me. But it's alright. Murau, where our orienation was, was quite pretty, and the dorm where I'm living here is going to be nice as well. I'm even living with an Austrian though she's not yet here. But this connection is miserable, so I'm going to have ( Read more... )

Forty-eight hours from now I will no longer be in the United States. Not even U.S. airspace, because I'll be about two hours away from Amsterdam. And there's all these things to get done before then! My head may explode in the doing, but it'll get done and I'm sure I'll have plenty of time to reassemble it on the overseas flight. Still can't quite ( Read more... )

I just spent the last hour chasing a two and a half year old around my Aunt Tracy's backyard. Brendan, her grandson (my cousin Chris's son) is over there during the day while his parents are working and so Mom, Gina, Karla and I decided that it would be fun to go and visit. That is an adorable child. Also mischievous. He decided that it would be ( Read more... )

I promise, promise, promise a real update sometime soon. There's a ton to say, too, so it'll be a good one. 'Til then, I leave you with this! I know, boring, but have fun. Comment and make me feel loved. :p ( Read more... )

You know what's nice? When one of your rec letter writers looks at the list of grad schools you're applying to and says, "You know you could apply to like...oh, I don't know, MIT or something." That makes me feel very good indeed. :)