i'm leaving for paris tonight with my best girlfriend from school/roommate, mara. we're weekending in the city of lights and i couldn't be more excited. with march winding to a close, i find myself coming up on my last month in london and am both saddened and thrilled. this semester has been liberating and wonderful and has really shown me that ( Read more... )

never been happier.

saturday (tomorrow/today)-florence
sunday-possibily siena?
monday-late train to rome
friday-evan arrives in london
next tuesday-start my internship/notting hill hotel getaway
next saturday-my mom and nicole arrive in london

You know what this journal never fails to be good for? Procrastinating ( Read more... )

spent too much money on a great dinner before going to see an amazing production of chekhov's the seagull last night with kristin scott thomas, mackenzie crook (gareth keenan from the british version of the office), and chiwetel ejiofor (dirty pretty things, love actually, kinky boots...) last night. got to have a great little conversation with ( Read more... )

but the weeks fly by ( Read more... )

so, i'm in london and i must admit that the first couple of weeks here have not been exactly what i thought they would be. i suppose i thought that i would get here and everything would immediately be great and there would be no adjustment phase really because i would be with friends and it would pretty much just be like boston, but london. but ( Read more... )

my new address is 14 Queen's Gate in South Kensington, London. i am here for the next four months-ish. jet lag is a mild bitch, but not so bad as the fact that i got sick the day before coming here and am now feeling like absolute shit on my first full day here not having been on a plane. maybe i shouldn't have ignored what my body was saying to ( Read more... )

currently? i'm sitting at my desk listening to a mixture of the rain, the replacements, and the rockin music from the apartment below. sometimes, on thursday nights especially, they like to raise their music to so high a volume that the floor beneath my bed vibrates gently. it's the kind of night to smoke in my bedroom and type away by the ( Read more... )

so, i just spent the weekend in charlottesville with evan. one of the best weekends of my life, just thought i'd share.