i've hit a lull in the uber-paper writing that i've been doing recently, which is nice. i'm not going anywhere this weekend either. which means this weekend will be lazing about and thinking and writing. which i've been doing a lot of recently ( Read more... )

first of all, it's freaking halloween. sweet deal ( Read more... )

just came back from a delicious thai restaurant that's about five steps from my apartment and we pass basically every day. it was quite good. mmm...pretty much just what i needed ( Read more... )

went to london last weekend so of course i had to wait until almost a week later to write about it. meh ( Read more... )

so last night we were booking tickets for airlines and hostels and buses and such for our many excursions around europe. now i love to travel, so of course i'm like "oh, i want to go EVERYWHERE" so i start booking flights, and next thing i know i've spent 500$ or so just on airfares. curse you england for making everything so bloody expensive ( Read more... )

today we all got together and talked around what trips we wanted to take over weekends and such. it started with everybody (six of us) just screaming about where they wanted to go and everybody else agreeing (oh yeah, i want to go there!) until we realized we had run out of weekends to travel on. it's crazy, because i've only been here like a ( Read more... )

orientation here is over and done with. finally. it was schizophrenic type orientation, with parts of it wicked awesome (see visiting a freaking castle and running through the gardens) while the rest of it was pretty dumb (see being told how to write an essay here in england. apparently, you're supposed to use these things called "arguments" in ( Read more... )

it rocks being in england because that means my birthday comes five hours faster. so everybody else (by which i mean peeps in america) thinks it's seven, but it's really midnight. buh-ya ( Read more... )

england rocks.

our isp provider is horrible and thinks that my journal update page, my friend's page, one of my friend's blogs, and so on, is all pornography. so i'm on my laptop, stealing wireless from next door ( Read more... )