i am here right now, and i think that's where i'll be for a long time ( Read more... )

today i ate curry with my hands. it felt oddly satisfying in a way, because i know that's how i was raised. to eat curry with my hands and drink lukewarm water out of a tin cup and never refuse second helpings of foods i never quite got used to. and also because i know from now on, i will probably never do that again ( Read more... )

stacey put this in her journal and i stole it because i thought it was cool, even though she didn't put me in hers. so i thought i'd put her first in mine to try to make her feel guilty. tough love, stace, tough love :P (p.s., i'm kidding about trying to make you feel guilty. haha. you laugh too, now. i was really kidding, promise ( Read more... )

it's amazing how much stuff a person seems to have when it comes time to move. changes always require an inventory of some sort, whether emotional or physical, and of course i find this change no different. as the floor of my closet gets cleaner and subsequently free of my belongings and as the piles of the most random assorment of things clutter ( Read more... )

wow. for the first time in my life after finishing an hp book, i really feel the need to talk to someone who could understand. i feel thoroughly miserable, but mostly confused, even though i loved the book. wow. how come none of the other ones did that to me? i don't even know what to say. why does rowling do this to me ( Read more... )

this is the week i am housesitting for the rooneys, the family i usually babysit for multiple times a week and for this i am highly overpaid. john is 6, eliza 4, their mother julie inexplicably youthful and radiant in looks and character, their father patrick who never appears to wear the same shirt or drink a glass of wine from the same bottle ( Read more... )

You Know You're Indian When....

Your dad is some sort of engineer or doctor ( Read more... )

Three names I go by ( Read more... )

thank you mollie and ethan for tagging me :) too bad everyone else has tagged all the rest of my friends so now i have no one to tag :( how about i tag myself 5 more times? yeah, i thought so ( Read more... )

It’s nice to have some time to sit in the library and think...well, and update because it’s been sooo long since I’ve been brave enough to say something. I watch the journals of all my friends roll along by and I read everyday...not to sound like a stalker, but I really like keeping tabs on you guys, because the closer I get to graduation, the more ( Read more... )