I have the sort of sense of humor that's messed up enough that people (usually my family) see something really strange and say, "It made me think of you." Hmm. However, they were right on the money with these 2 commercials:

I'm pretty sure these were made just for me.

When my parents decided to move to Cape Cod, I had a lot of people ask if the transition would be difficult for me. To me, it didn't really seem like the move would make much of a difference, aside from the fact that it would take more time and effort to come home for breaks and holidays. Compared to studying abroad in London, though, how big could ( Read more... )

Note to anyone who thinks they don't need writing skills to get through life (and trust me, I tutor a lot of people who think this)..... right now, in order to contest a speeding ticket I was given about a week ago, I have to write an explanation to the District Attorney of why I should receive a reduction.

Persuasive writing beats going to court!

One of my roomies has the flu.... anddddd I just found out that my other roomie has MONO. Fantastic.

I'm arming myself with Clorox wipes and Vitamin C.

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Another nerve-wracking Italian class today... on Friday, we all took our first exam, and it was pretty difficult. I swear, my professor managed to find every bizarre exception to standard Italian grammar and put it all in the test. Toward the end of class, he began handing the exams back to us, with the warning, "The exams were.. really.. not good ( Read more... )

Whoops, I never got around to posting these...

My room:


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Before the haircut...


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From the book "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" by Lynne Truss:

"While [grammar sticklers] look in horror at the badly punctuated sign, the world carries on around us, blind to our plight. We are like the little boy in The Sixth Sense who can see dead people, except that we can see dead punctuation. Whisper it in petrified little-boy tones: dead punctuation ( Read more... )

So so sick of packing boxes. Thankfully, I think I should be able to fit everything that's left into one small moving box... I'm pretty much done. The moving company is coming tomorrow morning ( Read more... )