2010? suddenly it's 10 full years since i graduated from high school, 10 years that flew from my hands faster than i ever could have imagined. 10 years that i can already only remember in bursts and flashes ( Read more... )

this morning in between waking up when jeremiah got out of bed and waking up for good i dreamt that a girl i went to school with in elementary school (the girl who always wet her pants and smelled like pee) lived in ethiopia with her family as some kind of royalty. i went to visit her twice in the span of a week and a half, first with my family, ( Read more... )

the combination of the emotional roller coaster that is so you think you can dance and the fact that tomorrow i'm moving, ending the nearly five and a half year run of living with my best friend and one of the loves of my life means that today i'm pretty fragile, like how an episode of "how to look good naked" made me bawl a little while ago ( Read more... )

today i took step number one towards not straightening my hair anymore and embracing how it wants to be on it's own, with an adult haircut (meaning, not one given to me in my kitchen in my pajamas, but rather at an actual salon) and a walk home on the streets of brooklyn where actual, real people could see it's curliness. this is a much bigger deal ( Read more... )

lately during the day i've been composing lengthy and eloquent things in my head that i'd like to write down - notes to myself, in my paper journal, here, etc, and then nothing ever comes to fruition. lets just say that i've been watching a lot of tv lately. and i mean a lot - tv on dvd, dvred stuff, things online, etc. i'm starting to think i can ( Read more... )

well, hey ( Read more... )

i've never felt particularly moved by an election before, considering that the last two i could vote in simply revolved around voting for whoever wasn't george w bush - in both cases for men who i didn't care much about anyways - and knowing in my gut that things probably wouldn't work out how i hoped they would anyhow. and now, suddenly this time ( Read more... )

( 2007 )

first, for anyone who's interested - some pictures from this summer, london/paris/italy/prague.
( there are seriously almost 80 pictures here. )

today everyone went to the beach (which my sensitive skin can't handle here) and i stayed home with stephanie's computer and bike. i rode around the entire perameter of the walls for the first time ever, and it was amazing and fantastic. my biggest regret of this trip, officially, is not shelling out the 65 some odd euro a bike would have been for ( Read more... )