i'd be perfectly ok with staying here...

i leave for australia in under a week...next wednesday actually. i have made just about every list that one can make before travelling and the severe anxiety is starting to subside...thank god. its not the playing in front of 35,000 people that freaks me out, its the getting to the airport, packing, security, etc...that's what gets me ( Read more... )

i would be content to just hide for all of my break (which is really only until jan 4th), especially when i have people that just won't leave me alone, while another one has some kind of epiphany of believing him and i will get married. i've heard we're getting a snow storm...i will not be happy if this party gets ruined. i really want to enjoy ( Read more... )

i have found a wonderful group of friends, who i truly enjoy being around, and yet somehow, i still cannot help but feel that anxious dread before every gathering, even when the gathering is half for me. :-/

I'M GOING TO SYDNEY!!!!

Just because you're a rebel doesn't mean that you'll never ever be any good. Quite the opposite is true, as a matter of fact -- your unwillingness to take things at face value means that you can see innovations and solutions where others might just go along with the comfortable status quo. Just make sure you're actually a rebel with a cause, and ( Read more... )

i received a very positive email back from my advisor yesterday. she didn't say anything like "this won't work" but that she was "contemplating an action plan" and "would love to meet" so i am one step closer to getting myself to sydney!

a few weeks ago i received a text from a friend of mine saying that she had recommended me to go with the Middlesex County Volunteers in Sydney, Australia. i was beginning to think i wasn't going to hear anything, until today. tonight when i was leaving my jr corps practice the woman in charge of recruiting fifers for the trip called me!!! the ( Read more... )

my mind is done with summer...i need to get back to school and get back to learning. working in the kennel is fun but requires no thought. 2 weeks monday til i go back and i cannot wait!

is there ever really such a thing as "the exception to the rule"??