Do not like the new layout.

My life is so fucking weird right now but I love it. Since most of my plans backfired and blew up in my face throughout my life, I am living day to day now. This won't be a permanent state for me, but I definitely needed to slow down and enjoy the present, rather than constantly thinking about the future. And I love it.

In 1906, a railroad worker stored some volatile chemicals used by oil companies in a warehouse just northwest of downtown Tulsa. Unfortunately for him, the chemicals caused an explosion heard as far away as Claremore and created a decent sized crater where the warehouse used to be. Tulsa officials turned the crater into a swimming hole, which ( Read more... )

All my hard work!

A lot has already changed in the last two weeks ( Read more... )

I am quietly going out of my mind.

Okay, well Manuel just talked to our liaison in China, and apparently we're still leaving for China at the scheduled time, but will not start training for a few days ( Read more... )

The exact e-mail I just received. Awesome. I might be sitting around for two months. Maybe we will go to Morocco and work our way over to China ( Read more... )

Oh my god I just got an e-mail for my Chinese host sister!

Oh my god!
I haven't talked to her in forever, and I might be able to see her when I go to China again!

Jake has made a new bed out of a shoe box. The box itself is about 8.5"X11. Jake is 13 pounds, and big. Very big. He spilled over the sides the first few times, but now he's bent it to make an almost perfect circle. He curls up in it and tucks his head, and spends about half the day in it now. He is so weird, and I'm going to miss him terribly ( Read more... )