This morning it was raining when I woke up so I ended up watching 'The Notebook' because it was playing on tv ( Read more... )

Yesterday I took myself to see the movie, "Little Miss Sunshine," which was very funny. Plus, it had Sufjan Stevens' song, "Chicago" in it - hearing it blasting in a theater was pretty great ( Read more... )

Let me set the scene.

I'm sitting on my balcony. With just the dimmest light around me (from my neighbors' christmas lights). It's around 70 degrees. My neighborhood is dark with some traffic. A passerby or jogger.. or baby carriage.. every now and then. It's ideal. Crickets - the whole deal, really ( Read more... )

Institute is over ( Read more... )

Yes, I'm alive ( Read more... )

Today the guy who has been noticing me for the past few months came in to get a coffee refill, and he asked me when I was leaving, etc. ...and then went to a table for about five minutes - when he passed me on his way out, he put a folded piece of paper on the counter and told me to read it when I got home. I did, and this is what it said:

I've ( Read more... )

Yeah... as of Friday I've been having the worst week ever.

I think I'm going for a bike ride.. though maybe that's not a good idea since the only logical next step from here would be getting hit by a car or a meteor... or reindeer.

My thesis is finished. I turned it in today. 98 pages. So incredibly happy ( Read more... )

My brain is done. Done, done, done. I still have to finish my thesis and complete two take home exams.. but yeah, I'm still done. Today I gave the last presentation of my undergraduate career on the genocide in Darfur. It was much more interesting than my presentation on Tuesday about the Zambian economy (no one in the class cared that the kwacha ( Read more... )

I found out.

I was accepted by Teach For America to teach secondary history in Connecticut.

wow. I would love to teach history.

lots of emotions going on.