it's late...and i'm sugared up on irish potatoes, so i'm going to write a journal entry. kristen came over tonight and we wanted to bake something exciting and complex....so after about 20 minutes of sifting through various cookbooks, we gave up and decided to just make irish potatoes, and harken back to our days as girlscouts. anyone who knows ( Read more... )

Dan and I broke up last night. As usual, no matter how hard I try to brace myself for this kind of thing, I never saw it coming. I don't really want to go into any more detail about how or why it happened, because it hurts too much to re-live it, and I still don't really understand it myself. I feel alone and scared (for both myself and Dan) and ( Read more... )

I got a new book today. It's a compilation of selected poetry by Simon Armitage, a British poet and really funny guy who came and spoke at Loyola this past year. I really enjoyed his poems, so I got his latest book, "The Shout." Currently I'm in the process of trying to put together my final portfolio for creative writing (5 poems and 2 short ( Read more... )

today I was watching Animal Planet (like the nerd that I am), and I've decided what I want to do with my life.....

I WANT TO OWN BABY PENGUINS!!!

I haven't thought through how I'll actually make a career out of this, but that's beside the point. the bottom line is this:


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My moods have been shifting with tidal consistency these days, but today I'm feeling particularly good. It's nice out, and I read two articles between classes that I found to be very inspiring. If you're ever feeling sad, I suggest picking up Martin Luther King's sermon on Loving Your Enemies (it's not particularly long) or the selected writings of ( Read more... )

Kathy tells me she worried I might've died/fallen of the face of the earth, so I suppose it's time for a real post :P

My life appears to be trapped in a perpetual cycle of blahness right now.  Granted these past few weeks have been jam-packed with work, but even so I don't think that's justification for how socially unsatisfying things have been  ( Read more... )

dooooo eeeet, even if you don't have LJ. give me something to do instead of this godforsaken paper ( Read more... )

I've been doing some serious thinking lately, and some things have been getting me down, but tonight I guess I sort of had a revelation. I spend a lot of time waiting for people to reach out to me, and give me something I'm hoping for, or help fulfill some need in me, but I'm rarely satisfied. and it seems that a lot of people share in my ( Read more... )

Dear Spring Break,

please be less boring?

<3 Lauren ( Read more... )

me thinks it's high time I did a serious update. I'll try to keep it short and to the point.

so this past week was the week from hell. 4 midterms + 1 paper + regular classes & homework + having my hand slammed in a door + figuring out housing for next year - sleep - excercise / koinonia, counseling, roommate drama, relationship tension. you do the ( Read more... )