I've been so, so terrible about updating. I've been here in Taipei for about 1.5 months now and things are going well. School is fantastic -- I have a very small class of all women, so it's a comfortable and relaxing class, and I think that definitely encourages learning. I have a set of friends here now, too, and my social life sometimes is (what ( Read more... )

But I just thought of the poem I've had in my LJ user info for 8 years now, a poem I first read in AP Logic and Composition in my senior year of high school:

somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond ( Read more... )

Is it too much to ask for just one thing I can be 100% sure of? (Other than knowing that it is not here that I want to be, whatever "here" is?)

I feel like every time I've closed my eyes and really tried to listen to my heart over the past 6+ months, it's clarity I've been searching for.

And I'm still looking ...

Instead of tackling my to-do list today, I decided to revisit my old LJ entries from when I was in Manchester. (I've been on an England kick lately and was trying to name all my flatmates while I was there, but the LJ entries really didn't help.)

I stumbled across this little bit, from post-Manchester, first semester senior year:

My horoscope ( Read more... )

How quickly the pace of life has changed! It's officially my weekend and I think I'm coming down with something. I woke up feeling like crap but dragged myself to work anyway. Chicken noodle soup for breakfast seemed to do the trick until later in the day, when my neck and throat started hurting. I am all alone in the apartment, GRE books ( Read more... )

I wrote this at work yesterday, during some downtime:

Three years. I've talked about June 1st approaching a few times in the past 5 months (clearly, it still hangs heavy in my mind), and I kept referring to it as "one year since I've graduated from college". I think that says it all ( Read more... )

I guess my lack of updates really reflects how little I like this month, haha. It hasn't been that bad so far, though. My weekends have been booked full with birthday celebrations ... last weekend was Su's 25th, the first of my close friends to turn a quarter-century old. I thought I'd be prepared for 25, not feel as awful about it as I did ( Read more... )

January is probably my favorite month of the year. That, or December, which is funny because they're consecutive months yet at "opposite ends" of a calendar year. And January is swiftly followed by my least favorite month of the year, February ( Read more... )

What a busy 2 weeks it's been! This past weekend, I took a bus up to Providence, RI to meet my friend Sue from Wellesley to go skiing in Vermont. The bus ride up was miserable -- 6.5 hours to get to a place that should normally only take about 3.5 hours. But we stopped in random places, like the two CT casinos and New Haven and New London ( ( Read more... )

I went home the week of Christmas and spent pretty much the entire week cooking and baking. I baked a buche de Noel, buttermilk biscuits, ginger cookies, Pebernodder (Danish peppernut cookies), and raspberry lemon thumbprint cookies. And I also made spiced apple cider, spiced cinnamon chocolate coffee and honey butter for the biscuits. By the ( Read more... )