Sallie Mae is the devil ( Read more... )

I miss having more than one friend in the town where I live.

I haven't had class since April (excluding finals) and my classes here don't start until Oct 9 and then my language classes not until Oct 16th!! I shouldn't be complaining I guess, but (almost) 5 months is way too long for me to have no structured purpose to my life. If I'm not required by some higher power to get out of bed before 2pm I won't, ( Read more... )

I have been in Madrid with Alicia causing trouble for the last week. Tomorrow I go back to Paris and have to deal with the consequences. I'm so behind on all the administrative stuff I have to deal with to make myself official in France and at Sciences Po. It is so hard to take care of business when you have no internet, no phone, a language ( Read more... )

I saw Mt. Hood yesterday. My sister had been really upset that I'd been in Portland for two weeks and hadn't seen it yet and I thought, what's the big deal? It's just a mountain. There have been forest fires on it lately so all the smog has obscured the view ( Read more... )

I miss Tulsa, a lot.
I think I might cry.
I should stop looking at old pictures from the Language House.

PS It rained here today. I blame Melanie. :-P

I like Portland.
How about you?

PS It has not rained a single DROP since I got here and only for half of one day have the clouds dare show their face. Unreal. Beautiful.

One week and four days until I move to Paris indefinitely. AHH ( Read more... )

My first near-week in Portland has been very enjoyable. The first night here, Maura and I couldn't move into her dorm yet, so we were going to couch surf (couchsurfing.com, check it out if you don't know what i'm talking about) with this guy who goes to Multonomah Bible College, because we needed a free place to stay and because we were curious to ( Read more... )

Wow, it's been a long time since I updated this thing ( Read more... )