For the next six weeks or so, I am one degree ahead of Seth. Awesome.

To those that pray: please add my sister and brother to your prayers.

My parents went to St. Louis today to bring Laura home. Aside from worrying about her health, I'm afraid Richard will get lost in the shuffle.

Thank you.

Happy Thanksgiving from a country where there are more jokes than celebrations!

I'm cooking my first Thanksgiving Dinner this afternoon and celebrating with my English, Dutch and French Friends. And my Christopher. :)

Have a good day!!!!

K

Great big wet happy snowflakes this evening!! The kind that melt as soon as they hit the ground, but gradually build up on cars after a few hours. It's stopped now, it's cool and clear ( Read more... )

I woke up to Virgin radio dummies wondering how *at this moment* the American people were voting. At that moment it was 8ish am here. 3ish on the east coast. So I think the American people were probably sleeping and not voting just then ( Read more... )

Most mornings I get out of bed around 8. Sometimes Chris stays up and calls between 7.30 and 8. I wasn't surprised to hear the phone ring at 7.45 this morning. HELLO SQUIRRELFRIEND!!!! got my attention.

Thank you Rob for the jubilant, drunken, wake-up call. :-)

1st year students who don't know how to cook + res halls with kitchens instead of cafeterias = fire alarms going off 3 times today. Hopefully this will be contained to today and this evening instead of tonite when I'd rather be sleeping ( Read more... )

Pictures from England--my trip to London, Windsor Palace, Stonehenge, and Bath with Dad, the Yorkshire Dales and city of York with the other international students, and then some silly ones of the people I live with and my bedroom can be found at my DAD's yahoo picture site thing: Read more... )

8 October ( Read more... )

I'm not going to get into a political discussion. But I would like to mention that I'm much more comfortable talking about politics here than I was at home. Another bit of acclimating. Many people I've met here--English, Dutch, especially French--have never had a good chance to grill a real-life American about politics. Professors make ( Read more... )