hm. i feel like journaling, but my real journal is all the way upstairs. livejournal can be reached from the comfort of this swivel chair i am sitting in. livejournal wins by way of convenience ( Read more... )

what a bummer of a semester this one was. i'm ever so glad it's over. i leave thursday to teach english in italy. the reality of that set in a few hours ago, and it's starting to feel a little overwhelming. i'm in the home stretch with all the things i need to accomplish before i go. i never thought i'd get to go back there so soon. sometime in the ( Read more... )

after weeks of leaving lamentations hanging out there for weeks, i thought i should mention that i am no longer binge drinking and passing out with my shoes on. i've been feeling more chipper. i plan to go see a psychologist of something ( Read more... )

i have given myself the night off. no friends. no homework. no plans or obligations. i have finally reached critical mass. i simply cannot go on like i have been all semester, so busy i can barely sleep and not enjoying anything ( Read more... )

i had a conversation with my dad last night about the possibility of the world ending in 2012. he seems to buying into this theory, since apparently all the planets will be lined up with the sun on december 21, 2012, and three ancient civilizations more or less named this day as the end. i figure as that time approaches, we'll see whether there's ( Read more... )

just found out some people i went to high school with died of heroin overdoses in recent months. more have had babies. more are in jail. is this an accurate representation of what happens to graduates from your typical american high school? the number of drug-related deaths and imprisonments seems kind of high. i guess teen pregnancies are pretty ( Read more... )

oh my. i haven't written since november. not that anyone at all reads these things anymore. but in my utter lack of things to do while home on break, it crossed my mind that i might be able to divert myself for an hour or two on the old lj ( Read more... )

last day in huntington until christmas. not that it's far away. it's been a good week. i've seen a lot of people from high school that i wasn't expecting to see. it's been a pleasant surprise to be happy to see them rather than hold on to the disdain i felt toward a lot of them during senior year. i think i'm still seen by most of my former ( Read more... )

hooray for tuesday. i did solidly on a test in music theory this morning and hot out of linguistics early, which is wonderful. no work tonight, which means i can go climbing at ramsey and maybe do some running. i took a few weeks off from the gym as i was getting settled in my new job, but when i went beck yesterday, i climbed my toughest face yet ( Read more... )

blargh. i am sickly-prickly, and the only person here to take care of me is my big hairy roommate nat, who is too busy on the phone dealing with girl drama to attend to me ( Read more... )