After a particularly disastrous weekend, I made sure to call my mom multiple times to say thank you for the thoughtful things she did and remind her that I was thinking of her. The first time I called she hung up on me; the second time, she dismissed me in a tearful voice and didn't let me talk very long. Then, the third time she started sobbing ( Read more... )

Proof that I am still sick (beyond the obvious reasons): I just watched four hours of Project Runway.

Wearing my winter coat.

( La la la... the UNCOMFORTABLE SURVEY? )

( Where She Runs )

My mom is so good to me. She called me mid-day absolutely bawling because she was worried about me, offering to drive up right now in spite of being sick of herself. She was so upset that her baby was sick, let alone sick on her birthday, that she really was ready to march up here and save me ( Read more... )

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Gods-damn!

As soon as I got back from my Cameron Mitchell interview, which left my mind racing over whether or not I could juggle TWO internships somehow next quarter, I got an e-mail from TH EXECUTIVES saying that they'd seen my resume on FisherConnect and wanted an interview with me. And of COURSE I want to interview with them. Not only is their ( Read more... )

"You get a strange feeling when you're about to leave a place... like you'll not only miss the people you love but you'll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you'll never be this way ever again."

~Lolita in Tehran, by Azar Nafisi

This weather is making me so wild inside. I can't sit still, I can't concentrate, I can't quite understand what's going in my head. I feel like I am trying to swim in a river whose currents have gone wild from sudden rainfall, a river that is unknowably deep and bracingly cold and utterly impossible to swim against. How did I get back to... ( Read more... )

What an odd day.

I just realized that the hot, distinguished, interested Swiss boy I flirted with in Boston has a Facebook saying his birthday was in 1976. What? Could it be? Is European hotness really as timeless as I thought ( Read more... )