I don't feel like 2011 has been off to a very good start ( Read more... )

In German, the time between Christmas and New Year's Eve is referred to as "between the years". It expresses a sort of floating-feeling, like being in limbo. I don't think that's ever been as apt as it has been this year ( Read more... )

I am burned out. There is really no other way to put it ( Read more... )

Leaving to drive to Munich in half an hour. Catching a flight to Birmingham from there. Rhi was going to meet me at the airport, but now it looks like she won't get out of class and I'll be taking a train to Nottingham instead and meeting her there ( Read more... )

I brought the supplementary materials packets for my applications to the post office today ( Read more... )

I've been feeling strangely melancholy since yesterday, even aside from the whole thing with B. I had a strange dream night before last in which I came out as a lesbian (again?), and I woke up feeling really bizarre. Then last night I dreamed, among other things, that I got a letter from Mr. H. There was more than that going on, but I just can't ( Read more... )

Was at B.'s last night. He told me about a manga he'd read recently, and the plot reminded me of the Princess Bride, which he hadn't seen. So I started to summarize the plot for him ( Read more... )

I made a shopping list for my parents. They are flying to Phoenix next month, and I wrote down the absolute essentials that I'd like to have brought back from the U.S. This is the first year since 1997 where I will not spend some portion of the year in the States. I'm really, really not thrilled about that, but people keep telling me I have no room ( Read more... )

Between our trip to Austria, spending last weekend at the parents' and my general inability to focus, I haven't really been working on my Thesis at all. I got back home Tuesday afternoon, and it took me until yesterday evening to get my life back on track. There was a lot of grocery shopping and laundry and general cleaning and puttering around ( Read more... )

This week, I haven't been as depressed as the past couple of weeks. Especially last week, I was simply paralyzed. I could not get out of bed, I could not focus for more than two minutes at a time, I could not get myself to do any work. A large part of me was panicking: worrying that I would not get my phd applications out in time and thus not have ( Read more... )