I just bought the most amazing soap today at the farmer's market. It is Black Raspberry goats milk soap. The only drawback is, at more than $5 a bar, I think I like the Bee Lady's soap in Brunswick better. However, I think if I can find cheaper goats milk soap at home, I might give that a go ( Read more... )

I often forget that, in Maryland, twice as many people want to sleep with me than do at school ( Read more... )

My kingdom to just have my goddamn degree already... or apparently 2 ( Read more... )

About two days ago, I decided it would be a really brilliant idea for me to go to grad school at UMD. Since then, there have been a series of inner fenanglings over the fact that the program I want to do ( the one year intensive MCERT program), has a 50% acceptance rate. Yes, one in every two people get in. I don't like these odds ( Read more... )

Professor Boucher is about the greatest frenchmen ever...but writing papers for his class makes me want to cry. We have a hunk of our term paper due tomorrow for which I had done plenty of research, but not typed a single word of. granted, it's being graded for being there, not for epic literary value. But still. It's kind of a bitch, and it's ( Read more... )

Today I can't get into schoolwork. This tends to happen when I get things done on Fridays. On the other hand, having done no schoolwork thus far today, I have succeeded in doing laundry, cleaning the bathroom and kitchen, and fenangling myself into quite a pretty picture ( Read more... )

You know what really hurts? Sunburn.

Andrew and I are fairly serious students and have crazy schedules during the week which aren't completely compatible. Because of this, we often make plans a good bit in advance. Okay, so here is the dilemma: the boy's birthday is March 29th ( Read more... )

Spring break is pretty much amazing.

Just saying.

And my russian family is all kinds of amazing.
The other day, I was babysitting for them, and not only did they give me dinner, but on the way back from their date, Oksana and Peter stopped by the European market and brought me Russian cookies and chocolate. Epic Win.

299-- 4 pages on "What is Historiography?" ( turned into a rant about how history is all about researching what you get funding for... it was rather depressing to write, really ( Read more... )