Me, in response to South Asian customer at AMC:

"Yes. I know we're both brown, but that doesn't mean I can hook you up with food."

Margaret said I didn't need to explain long absences between updating lj entries, so I won't. :)

Alex (looking at my photo albums): I love how you have so different many pictures of all the same people.

It's good to be back.

(I saw this over break. It's written by SNL's Tina Fay and has a few cast members of SNL in it, including Tim Meadows as Mr. Duvall ( Read more... )

Back in Ann Arbor.

Wonderful Thanksgiving break. Thankful for family and the time I spent with Margie, Christina, and Nickie. Now back in Ann Arbor. Need to decide on classes/potential careers by December 6th. Tons of reading and writing. Little sleep. Caffeine.

Welcome Week at has come to an end, and classes start tomorrow. I'm looking forward to classes, because even though it's been great meeting new people and doing so many things I miss routine and knowing what I'm going to do each day. Sure, a little variety is fine, but I'm feeling disconnected from family and friends and with some routine I would ( Read more... )

So I'm all settled in now! Margie came to my house at 7:30a.m. to see me off. I'm glad she came; I needed that. Joby almost left for school without saying bye. Luckily, he forgot his lunch so he came back inside and I got a chance to hug him and tell him that he can call me at any hour of the day. Jerin and my parents helped me move in. It was a ( Read more... )

Nickie's been gone at Loyola since Tuesday, and Christina's will be at Eastern in 6.5 hours. It's finally almost starting to set in that I'll be moving away from home in less than a week. Almost. Are the personal belongings of three people, myself and my roommates, really going to fit in our 16x17 room? Christina, Margie, and myself were ( Read more... )

Christina and I attempted, with the help of mapquest, to figure out a route from EMU to Ann Arbor so that we could go to church together on weekends. Mapquest was of little help, and the increasing humidity made the trip a little frustrating, but we eventually made it to St Mary's Student Parish. I wonder if we would have missed it completely if we ( Read more... )