i  just made a new journal, specifically for life at the moment:

www.livejournal.com/users/forty_below

not sure if i'll use this one, or the new one, but we'll see.

if we're friends on this LJ, then i'll add you on the other. 

sooooo, just to recap: new york city is absolutely amazing, and i want to live there for at least a year.

my four days there were far too little to experience everything i wanted to: i never got to go to brooklyn for the day, i didn't get a chance to go to a lot of the restaurants or bars, i didn't go to the Met, and i didn't get a chance to see ( Read more... )

i have the internet in my new apartment finally!!  i'm so happy, it's pathetic.

my apartment (townhouse, actually) is insane.  it's so nice.  it's the nicest place i've ever lived in, and i am including the houses my parents have owned in that count.  everything is sparkling and new, and i'm trying to decorate it on my meager budget.  the problem ( Read more... )

so all my material possessions in this world can be packed into cardboard boxes and loaded into a four door honda.  i start my 17 hour voyage tomorrow at 6 am sharp ( Read more... )

i got back from new york today.  it was amazing, i didn't really sleep for four days straight.  i will post the whole story (including the tale of my international affair with a cuuuuuuuute austrailian boy) under friends' only later on.  gaaaaah i want to live in new york!!

i leave for minnesota in less than 48 hours.

i am going to new york tomorrow!  i am excited/scared!

i hate ( Read more... )

born today, July 18:

nelson mandela

vin diesel

ryan cabrera

and yours truly!

im getting in free to the VIP section at the durham bulls tonight!

spent driving around the less distinguished suburbs of north raleigh, trying to locate "club ambis", an authentic latin club with a real 'pachata'  band playing (...still not sure what 'pachata' music is...)  we find the right strip mall, roll through it in my honda, windows down, calling out to the hispanic men hanging out by the billiards bar "ay ( Read more... )

i had 3 glasses of wine at dinner and now i'm drunk.

i hate staying so sedentary for so long.  i feel like ive been doing nothing in raleigh for ages.  it makes me feel like i am wasting my life.  on the other hand, i am really nervous about going to new york by myself, and even more nervous about my upcoming move.  i keep putting off doing things ( Read more... )