work is bo-oring because no one is giving me any work to do right now. i went for wings with bill and his dad last night. i always think that i like wings, but then i get them and remember that they are kind of a hassle to eat. i have to eat them very slowly and carefully in order not to get myself all sloppy ( Read more... )

this weekend i saw (and petted!) some alpacas in the parking lot of wegmans. i also saw a tiger named reba, a mountain lion, and the saddest monkey i have ever seen in my life. the little guy really looked like he had no will to live. i saw all of these lovely animals at nay aug park. i also saw an unbelieveable amount of stuffed birds in the ( Read more... )

this past weekend i went to UVA to visit bill and celebrate his 21st b-day. all in all, it was a pretty good time. i had to ride a bus for 14 hours, and watch 6 hours of chemistry lectures, but it was well worth it. we ended up leaving a day earlier than expected, so we decided to stop in harrisburg on sunday night, and then spend the day at ( Read more... )

my mom gave me some pretty good advice yesterday. she told me "do what you want now, and ask for forgiveness later"...i mean, she said it in reference to me driving without actually having a license, but i think i might start applying it to everything i do. what the hell.

tomorrow is going to be a sweet day. i don't have to be at work until noon ( Read more... )

so, it's nice to be home. i miss spain a little bit, but not really too much. and i've only spoken in spanish on accident twice so far since i've been back. my parents didn't recognize me at first when i saw them at the airport. i had my hair in a ponytail, they said that's what threw them off. i almost cried when i saw my mom, but i held back the ( Read more... )

today is my last day in spain! i just took my final exam and i think i blew it but i don´t really care. i just want to enjoy my last day here...i´ve got a ton of shopping to do. and packing. and i´ve got to say goodbye to everyone. and there´s a big festival going on in the neighborhood i live in, it´s pretty crazy. lots of dancing and drinking in ( Read more... )

so, i was going to post pictures from my trip so far...but there are a lot of them and i just don´t have that kind of patience. instead, i´m going to post these pictures. i had them on my camera when i came to spain, and they´ve been really useful in helping to cheer me up whenever i´ve been missing people from back home. they were all taken during ( Read more... )

you know what kind of sucks? being in a foreign country and realizing that your wallet is gone. i´m still not sure if i dropped it (which is pretty unlikely, since it was in my purse) or if someone stole it. it doesn´t really matter, since the end result is the same: some spanish bastard has it, and i do not. pretty much everything was in there ( ( Read more... )

i returned from my trip along the east coast of spain yesterday. it was a great experience, and i got to see plenty of important cultural and historical sites. but i won´t bore you with any of that nonsense. the highlights of the trip were when i saw a german woman get mugged by a biker no more than 5 feet in front of me in barcelona. i drank a cup ( Read more... )

i´ve reached the halfway point of my time in spain. i´ve been having a great time, for the most part, but there are plenty of reasons why i´m looking forward to going home. i miss everyone like crazy, especially my family, bill, and my friends. and it´s been pretty difficult to keep in touch with everyone. i miss hearing people´s voices. and my ( Read more... )