Was it that I was incapable of being healthy at home or did I just ... outgrow it ( Read more... )

Yesterday he wandered around the dining hall looking lost, looking for a bathroom, and someone said, "Oh, she's over there." And pointed to me ( Read more... )

I am SUCH a little kid. I'm too excited to sleep.

The following is a list of productive, packing-related behaviors that will eventually result in your safe deposit in Chicago in less than 24 hours-Washing clothing ( Read more... )

Poll Take my money, my cigarettes/I haven't seen the worst of it yetAnd how many books is it appropriate to bring? I've spoken to some of you crazy people who are bringing THREE CRATES of books (wow) and I swore that I was bringing no more than ten because I'll have text books and an entire city full of used bookstores at my disposal, but now that I'm packing my stack of books that I can't imagine living without ( Read more... )

So today I was writing out a check and I paused for a moment and looked up and asked the cashier,

"What's the date today?"

I got a funny look.

Someone kick my ass and tell me to start packing.

So tonight we're talking about what to sign up for once we get to school. "We" is the lovely Elise and the inflatable Justin. Originally, Elise was going to be taking French to thus study abroad in - you guessed it - France, but French is so boring. And pedestrian. Justin never specified an earlier interest in a language, but has now expressed ( Read more... )

Tonight I went out to eat and then, being the head case person that I am, I decided not to continue on to the movies with everyone else but to go to the gym to burn off calories consumed instead. There aren't many people at the gym on a Saturday night; just the very thin, the very muscular, the very freakish, and the very lonely. And me ( Read more... )

"Hey Elise, I need you to go pick up the dry cleaning before they close." To most families, this wouldn't be a big deal. However, my father has picked fights with both chains of dry cleaners that service Eden Prairie and is boycotting them both (he actually leafletted parking lots last year) so we drive to Chaska, which is out in the middle of ( Read more... )