So I hit an all-time low 2 nights ago. Seriously, I can't remember the last time I cried that hard for that long. Well I can, there have actually been several times...but it had been such a long time and I had been doing so well about getting things together and getting the better of my emotions. And then I completely crapped out. And it scared/ ( Read more... )

somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond ( Read more... )

Alrighty, well my second break-up of the year is not going much better than the first ( Read more... )

Shit. That last entry was DEFINITELY not supposed to be public.

I'm really glad Matt is here this summer; we are becoming really good friends.

I'm soooooooooooo tired tonight and a little bit drunk but I will write more later.

:- )

Yaay for good conversations and getting to know people better and discovering that they're really interesting and a little bit fascinating and having them listen to me talk on and on about affordable housing and being genuinely interested!

Well, it turns out Erin is in London until July 23, which would explain why I felt like she had completely disappeared off the face of the earth!! Now I know that I'm not going to hear from her for a long time, which sucks, but at least I know. I sent Patricia an e-mail explainin my previous terseness and telling her the truth...that I was ( Read more... )

The guys at work are so nice. Martin told me the other day that I "softened John up" because before I came, he was really mean and grumpy but now he comes out of his office and talks to us a whole lot more. That actually really meant a lot to me ( Read more... )

I came really close to quitting my research position yesterday, after spending 4 unsuccessful hours in Gelman. At one point, I realized that one of my sources was no longer reliable, because it mentioned that 11.5 million children under age 5 were vaccinated during the July 2001 National Immunization Day. Wow, 11.5 million kids--that's a whole lot ( Read more... )

I don't want to tell you my thoughts on Rumi's poetry or the war in Iraq or global warming or nanotechnology. I don't want to know what you think of poverty or the growing AIDS epidemic or Charlotte Bronte. All I want is to hold on to this moment as we tipsily hold on to each other (out of sisterly love and a need to regain balance), throw our ( Read more... )