what a summer. this is one of those nights of transition...but for the first time in a long time, i'm transitioning from something foreign to something familiar. it sounds way easier, but i feel like it's going to be deceptively difficult. over the past few months, i've had some incredible experiences that were so reliant on (and created by) the ( Read more... )

it's gotta be the weather that's getting me down. it's been rainy for the last 2-3 weeks, and that's getting in the way of me enjoying the end of my travels. it's even harder knowing that i'm (obviously) not at brandeis, and am going to miss graduation. i'm here, bored in the rain, and back home, senior week is going on and everyone's having too ( Read more... )

Things I'm excited for in France & otherwise need to do before I leave ( Read more... )

Just coming down from an horrendous, irrational emotional breakdown which turned out to be about (almost) nothing. Good to know that I haven't become completely French (I still posess expressable emotion), but bad that I wasted an otherwise beautiful Sunday holed up in my room not eating or sleeping ( Read more... )

i've come to the conclusion that motivation is a non-renewable resource. and i'm out. oh well ( Read more... )

post-thanksgiving, (slightly) pre-finals insanity ( Read more... )

ahhh i'm so aggravated right now. i just did a last-minute paper, and now that i've had a minute to breathe, i have to do another one. awesome ( Read more... )

it's 1 am. i have a midterm in 8 hours. obviously i'm updating my livejournal ( Read more... )

rip snoopy
5/1/91-10/29/06
he was a wonderful dog and i'll miss him very much.

the past two weeks have been, in a word, discouraging. i've been working really hard, and it seems like all of the things I can't control have been taking over. i'm pretty broke after putting down a deposit for an off-campus house that i'm not even sure we're going to get. i got accepted to my abroad program and that's great, but it's put a lot of ( Read more... )