I usually don't do these, but this feels like a good way to kick off the new year ( Read more... )

Know what really sucks. Puking more than I ever have ever at the house of a woman who seems to find something wrong with everything that I do or say.

Godamnit, I want to come home now.

I have been in Mexico for almost an entire month now, and I think that I am finally beginning to feel comfortable. I have resolved a lot of the issues that I had been dealing with during my first weeks abroad. My host mom is wonderful, I have a new camera (it broke), I am healthy, and my relationship with David is on solid ground ( Read more... )

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Summer is going well so far. I just finished a 0 week class called Oral Skills (for Spanish), and it was really fun! I got along with everyone really well, and ended up with an A ( Read more... )

Birthday birthday birthday
I love sunny weather on my birthday!

8:20 someone knocks on the door, and it sounds like a bunch of people making a racket ( Read more... )

I have been volunteering for the Jeff Merkley campaign here in Eugene for 10-12 hours a day for the past week. He is the democrat trying to take Gordon Smith's senate seat. Anyways, my boss took me out to lunch and offered me an internship, unpaid for now because the campaign isn't putting out money until the primaries are over. She is basically ( Read more... )

Tomorrow I am giving a presentation on Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan.

I AM SO NERVOUS

giving speeches makes me shake...and fart

Positive self talk:
I look adorable when I am nervous because it makes me smile!
I know Thomas Hobbes back and forth
getting attention is fun
it is my chance to shine!
my gas is always quiet

I obsess over the way other people treat me, and today it is really weighing on me.

Anyways,
I am in love with David, my roommate, and the new friends that I am making.
This is all happening as i mourn the loss of old friends who have lost touch, and I hate to say it, but I am starting to give up on them.