Of ten applications, three responses - three rejections. They came in a cluster, all within three days. Now I'm obsessively checking my e-mail for new notification letters. Perhaps I should say that I'm checking more obsessively than before. Joy.

In other news, congratulations, navies of Britain and France. You achieved the near impossible.

"Doubt is the epistemological itch that we scratch using inquiry in order to reach the nirvana of belief ( Read more... )

There's something that feels very wrong about being forced back into the closet. This is especially true for someone who's never really been in there in the first place. One day the circumstances came about. She said "I fuckin' hate lesbians" and the lights went out, the door swung shut in my face.

It feels almost unbelievable. I'm comfortable with ( Read more... )

There's something about coming back to Burke in the fall that makes me think of marching band. I automatically start thinking about the people (who aren't home) that I'll see after the rehearsal that I don't have. I think I missed a football game last night ( Read more... )

"PNG'ed" - when a diplomat is made a persona non grata by their receiving nation. Basically, the diplomatic equivalent of getting pwned.

I need more zombies in my life. Supposedly there have been two zombie walks on campus in the last two weeks, and I've missed them both. Zombie walk: a staged event where people dress up like zombies and then, ( Read more... )

So, I'm back again. Hey, I figure the more I try, the closer I'll get to writing regularly.

Had my first failed blood donation today. As weird as it sounds, I just couldn't bleed fast enough. (Don't worry I'm fine!) I guess I was just really dehydrated or something - with a blood pressure of 98/70-something, they probably shouldn't have let me in ( Read more... )

One metro stop up from where I'm living is a village that seems to have grown up in clusters in the middle of a wheat field. The patches are interspersed amongst huddled townhouses. It happens to be sunny today, which is extremely rare around here. The wheat (or whatever kind of grain it is) is still young, short, once green and turning gold ( Read more... )

Failed at the two of the three official, specific tasks I was assigned today ( Read more... )

Some strange things about Belgium ( Read more... )

So not only did I forget the slip and the strapless bra... apparently the extra meds are at home as well. Damn it all.