I got rejected from the apartment I looked at on Tuesday. It was the perfect setup and, clearly, I would be the best roommate they've ever seen if only because I keep my mess in my own room. The point is, I am feeling the pressure of the possibility that I may be trapped for all time with Hitler... i mean Geri. I imagine by the end of my time here ( Read more... )

In a land where the sun seldom shines, the wind often blows cold and cruel, and the natives rarely smile, lived a girl whose spirits needed lifting. It's not to say that this girl didn't like her rather hostile environment. Most days she reveled in the rain and cold and found the foreign frowny faces quite amusing and on the lucky occasions when ( Read more... )

My shoes aren't very pretty or even very comfortable for that matter. They actually hurt my back a bit because they have no raised arches or cushion-y insteps. The heart patterned laces, while ever so cute, are in fact a bit too sort and as a result they tend to come untied and loosen as I walk. The result being that I usually need to stop several ( Read more... )

Today, I go back to work after a month long vacation. I'm not excited to do this but I suppose I have to in order to keeping getting my stipend. To combat this stupid entrance back into reality, I choose to wrap myself in healthy, warm fantasy...sort of like a sweater. Therefore, today is not just the day I go back to work. Today is also the day of ( Read more... )

The fam arrived last night and my other cousins got here today. They live in Atlanta and we hardly ever see each other. It's sad really. They're black. Yeah, I have black cousins. This makes me giddy. haha. My 3 cousins...Christian, Frederick, and Jymile..."the boys" as they're more commonly called are 16, 17, and 18. I have no idea how Kim (their ( Read more... )

Last night I went to a movie with Nadja, her friend Lisa and their two "boyfriends." Lisa's boyfriend just found out he has a fatal brain tumor and will probably only live a few years more...ten is the max, the doctors said, and that's only if he's lucky. It was terrible of me i know, but every time I looked at him, I couldn't help thinking that he ( Read more... )

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
Norman Vincent Peale
Christmas came today...without pomp or circumstance. It seemed more like a friend who stopped by just because she was in the neighborhood and less like it was a long awaited guest who finally arrived. In Germany we celebrate on ( Read more... )

Today I slept until 11:30, showered and had Fruestuck. Then my Aunt and Uncle and I drove to France to buy bread. Let me explain. My family lives on the border of Germany and France so driving to France, while it seems entirely romantic to me, is actually no big deal. We went to the super market and bought bread (baguettes), scallops, six different ( Read more... )

these past few days have been a bitter sweet mixture of nostalgia, pierogis, old friends, and families. i had matt at my fingertips for days. he was there to joke around with me and coffee talk with me and i could hug him whenever i wanted and i didn't have to be "on," i could just be. and i could see him and smell him and slap his butt and ghetto ( Read more... )

alright alright. just woke up, made some tea, feeling pretty good. i have to spend all day running errands and shit. i have a huge list of stuff to erlaedingen. i feel like today, there is just not "enough time to do the things i want to do..." on the plus side i got my laundry done yesterday so packing should be easy enough. i may actually have to ( Read more... )