Hello cyberspace. I have decided that I work too hard. Everyday this week I have woken up early and researched for 6-8 hours, stopping only to eat, attend class, and run errands. It's all because of my seasonal affective misery thanks to these gray German skies. My sour mood prompted an attack of writer's block, which took a phone call to ( Read more... )

But only for a second. I've had yet another sinus infection, which is why I have been notably absent...now I'm scrambling to get my work back in gear. Will write more soon, just give me a sec to catch my breath!

Yup, I looked out the window over breakfast and saw snow...hopefully this time it will stick to the ground so I can go frolic like a proper Texan exchange student. We have a little plaza at the end of our street with a kiosk for buying coke and newspapers on Sunday, and there are some little play structures for kids to hang out on. I'll bet there ( Read more... )

Every so often, and usually while in grade school, I would decide that a new year called for a new journal. So I would purchase one of those frilly pink books sold by Hallmark for young girls to inscribe their amorous thoughts about the New Kids on the Block or whoever was popular at the time, and begin writing scrawled entries about the perils of ( Read more... )