So... Since I last posted I: had a lot of job interviews, most of which went well but the processes take forever; decided what I wanted to do with my life which was then foiled (for now) by these crazy eye problems; got a part-time job working with kids(!!) that I thought I'd hate but really loved to the point I would consider getting a master's in ( Read more... )

so... life is insane. i knew this year would be crazy but things started out with a bang when we lost 5 days, including 3 days of class, due mandatory hurricane evacuations. then we realized that all this career center stuff we never did had to be done ASAP because the career fair was last week and most on campus recruiting job deadlines are in the ( Read more... )

-two days of class permeated by the odor of the great dismal swamp burning over one hundred miles to our south

-an earthquake the day before classes started

-a gigantic hurricane that the college to make us all evacuate. now i am back home for at least four days with two of my out of state friends.

i guess this year wanted to started with a bang

had my 21st bday yesterday. pretty uneventful because mid-august birthdays mean almost everyone is already going back to school, but i had a nice dinner with some of my fave ladies ( Read more... )

-I started my new class, Globalization & Development, which is a refreshing breath of fresh air from Neoliberal Indoctrination Camp. I got an A+ in NIC, which is either a sign that I'm good at mimicking things back to people or that I fail at resisting conversion to other people's ideologies. I'm going with the former ( Read more... )

i chickened out on dying my hair red because mama was not into the idea and ultimately she wields the credit card, but i did get some red highlites. they look kinda ~funky~ because the red hadn't faded yet but anyway now mom is kind of into the idea of dying it all red so mission possibly accomplished ( Read more... )

My class finished last week, which was flawless timing because now I can sit on my ass for hours on end and watch Wimbledon. One of my friends from school who studied abroad in the UK apparently just watched the Nadal-Del Potro match on Centre Court! Jealous! It was a good match; I'm sad JMDP lost but Rafa was Rafa as usual. For some reason I ( Read more... )

so... i have a hair appointment on tuesday and i really want to dye my hair red. i've wanted to do that since my mom failed to pass the redhead gene on to me, and also since my hair color has changed so dramatically. tbh i don't even really know what my hair color is right now. i guess it's dark blonde/light brown where it's grown out. apparently ( Read more... )

i can't deal with how stationary i am this summer (also: this botswana paper, and my cold). morocco was a blessing and curse, really, because as amazing as i was now that i know what it's like to visit a different city every weekend and have juice and donuts for dinner in the square and get lost in the souk and spend hours drinking tea and watching ( Read more... )

uuugh i have to write a ten to fifteen page paper due next week for my class and i am finally getting around to picking a topic... kind of. we have to briefly explain our topic to the class tomorrow and i am writing... something about botswana (africa's ~success~ story) and how its good institutions re: respect for private property and lack of ( Read more... )