reader beware: i still haven't lost my ability to write a lot and actually say very little... :)

( part one, dated june 5 )

huge difference #1 about this last stint in russia and my first stint in russia: i did not so much as LOOK at LJ while i was there, much less even think about posting. the sole reason for this is that i did my writing on facebook instead, so if you want to read the notes i wrote over there, let me know and i'll post them here in a couple of ( Read more... )

that whole posting-whilst-in-grad-school thing doesn't seem to be working very well. it's okay, since when i'm not in class i'm grading homework for eighteen children, or catching up on the piles of reading i have, or working, or skiing, or suffering through UVA's atrocious basketball season, or rehearsing for this play i've gotten myself into. ( Read more... )

- especially since today's freakishly warm high was, oh, 72 (and yes, i am looking forward to skiing in a t-shirt tomorrow). but! the exciting thing that has happened recently is that i'm going to st maarten in march! i've never been further south than key west, and i'll only be there for three days, but dude. A TROPICAL PARADISE AWAITS ( Read more... )

one of my unmade resolutions was to post more, and i know grad school life is terribly interesting, so we'll see how that works. i'm still on break, and will be until the 16th, and have still rather quite a list of things to get done before then. [going to ski at least once more is on said list, and will be done tomorrow, and probably next tuesday ( Read more... )

i kind of can't not do this, now, since it's sort of become the only way for me to recall a given year... ah, aging. what a gas. here you are! ( 2007: the year in revue? )

well, that's another christmas mercifully gone. actually, it was probably the best christmas i've had in a long time; it was genuinely good to be with my family for once, and i didn't have the primal-scream instinct i've had in years before. (maybe it's because school is over, but i digress.) i arrived at mom's on the eve; we went to a chinese ( Read more... )

i actually said, under my breath, as i handed in my last paper about 24 hours ago, "into thy hands i commend my spirit". but i have done it! i have survived my first semester of grad school! i am 1/4 of the way to my MA! and, um, 1/10th of the way to my PhD? i'd rather not think about that, so i won't. but it is nice to have a few weeks off before ( Read more... )

(not really, but that word does not cease to amuse me no matter how many times i look at it ( Read more... )

because if you can't laugh at yourself, what can you do ( Read more... )