so, hi friends! i am alive. below the cut is what happened while i was busy not writing here ( Read more... )

- failing to live up to my promise to myself to work on my dissertation is not actually a disappointment, because doing exactly zero academic-related reading has been absolutely blissful ( Read more... )

on sunday i acquired another stamped and fancily-scripted-upon piece of paper telling the world that i am a Master of Arts, though it does not include the part where all should bow before me, or at least look on my works, ye mighty, and despair ( Read more... )

so i can't sleep, but nor am i really inclined to move and do productive things such as pack. pack? for what? for my now-annual spring break adventuring with kim... this year, i get to spend my birthday skiing in the austrian alps ( Read more... )

old habits die hard, it seems... ( my year, summed: )

how can i sleep on a night like this? it hasn't hit me yet exactly what has happened - for the first time in my life, i can say with complete and absolute truth, that i am proud to be an american and that i love my country. hyperbole, perhaps, but i am so overcome with [insert adjective of joy here] that i cannot fathom speaking of it in any other ( Read more... )

i'm alive, and that was one of the - no, probably THE - most amazing things i've ever done. as the guy in the extraordinarily cheesy video we had to watch beforehand says, now i know why the birds sing... :D

i did some retail therapy today and bought some necessary items (a cardigan of some substance and a waterproof outer layer for skiing) and some completely unnecessary items (mostly, an adorable pair of brown heels that i could. not. resist), which i want to wear OMG NOW but cannot since i already have tonight's shoes planned. i'm going bowling in a ( Read more... )

[words you never thought you'd hear me say, eh ( Read more... )

sorry for the shouting, but chronologically you'll have to start with the entry below this one if the following is to make any sense...

( part six, dated july 8 )