I watched my friend's family eat chocolate covered cicadas yesterday.

Wow..long time no post. My most recent public post was almost half a year ago. Well, devoted readers, a lot has happened in six months ( Read more... )

Well, my last post was just downright depressing. I'm better now, for the most part. I wanted to write something new so that wouldn't be the first thing people saw if they read this. So while I was writing a few Christmas cards, I came across some torn out pages from when I used to keep a dream journal. These are baffling, hilarious and not in the ( Read more... )

Well, I haven't posted in here since...well, I'm not going to go check.  But a lot has been going on, and I've been thinking a lot.  So I'm going to indiscriminately spill my guts to the LJ public.  I'm fairly convinced that none of my real-life friends reads this, so if you'd just leave a brief comment to let me know you read this, I'd at least ( Read more... )

I love my job.

So if you've been in contact with me at all this summer, you know I've been uncharacteristically worried about my life.  It started when I didn't have a job at graduation and had to move home, which I would rather not have done.  I didn't understand why all the places I applied to wouldn't take me.  I felt qualified and employable.  So I went home ( Read more... )

Hi everyone.  I am indeed still alive.  And I am living in Illinois!  So here's the latest news (there's a lot ( Read more... )

Things to do before I die:

-ride in a limo

-skinny dip in the ocean

-see the taping of a TV show

-be published in Time magazine

-be someone’s spiritual mentor

-cliff jump into a lake or river

-own a home with flowering trees in the yard

-genuinely LOVE the way I look

-whitewater rafting

-marry my best friend

-make love in lots of cool places ( ( Read more... )

I just got back to Wisconsin today after a 24-hour train ride from Montana. (Long-distance trains are marvellous.) On a whim, Ben invited me to drive back home with him after graduation. Our parents thought it was a grand plan, so we did! We drove Ben's tinny car "Binky" all the way from Milwaukee to Great Falls, MT. There were several mishaps ( Read more... )

My eyelid keeps twitching.

I'm done with college!