these pictures are mediocre. i have some from the trip on a website, but i think i'll hold out a tad longer before i put the link out here. for now. and. ( becuase i don't feel like writing words )

so. i write to you from the less-than-glorious land of hampshire college. i've returned for a jiffy to see the few lingering faces around campus, as well as to theoretically finish a twenty page paper on the commodification of art in berli (due on friday). so far, both of these objectives have proved minor failures but i've got a few days remaining ( Read more... )

all i do anymore is play pinball on my computer and do work. for serious. it's less than fun. i return to the states on friday. today is sunday. i return friday. the bad news is, i am going to miss it here. a lot. i thought i would be okay about leaving, i wanted to be okay with it, but you know it's always so damn hard for me. the good news is, i ( Read more... )

i mean, really, where can i begin here. okay. so. let's run with prague, because that's the last time you heard from me. prauge. was. amazing. just brimming with tourists, crawling with them. but i visited the city with nate and this woman rebecca, she's starting her doctorate on the relationship between kafka and the city. so she knew the city ( Read more... )

hey kids, i am in PRAGUE.

for all of you envisioning me in berlin, stress free and strolling the streets and partying basically every waking moment, well your mental image was quite correct, right up until this very point in time. now, i realize, i've something along the lines of fifty pages to write in a week and a half. that's cute. me and berlin, we're breaking up, i ( Read more... )

it's finally springtime but goodgod i'm somehow starting to slip. the botanical gardens near by house are spectacular, a day of total disorientation, no aim. just wander and walk off the hangover. so tremendously hungover yesterday that it still sticks. i didn't even drink much, didn't even mix drinks, just white wine but ouch i had not felt that ( Read more... )

i want to write to you becuase there is so much to say but the simple fact of the matter is it is far too nice outside for me to be inside dunkin donuts writing to you.

today i rode the sbahn with tear streaks drawn on my sunburnt windburnt cheeks. its funny how i can be drawn into the petty when i just spent nine days in a land where people worry such about simple survival and a young girl has to spend an entire month's salary on a bike becuase she couldn't go to university because she was a minority and didn't ( Read more... )

i am alive, and i secretly adore romania.