ok, my weekend has been too good to be true ( Read more... )

there are like 8 kittens living outside my mom's house. they're everywhere.


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we put up the christmas tree today. it looks very pretty. it's nice, every year we buy ornaments from the enchanted crystal, so whenever we unpack the ornaments, we get to remember who picked out the ornaments and who was with us. it makes here feel even more like home ( Read more... )

so i'm in croatia now at my mom's place in milna, which is a small old town on the island of brac (pronounced brach). it's pretty cool here. on the way to her house you have to pass a really small old town that has buildings that are hundreds of years old. some of them have stone shingled roofs. yesterday i went for a run by the sea. there was ( Read more... )

ok so those of you who think this is a gloating entry, it's not. i've been working nonstop (and by nonstop i mean an average of 6 hours a night of sleep, and the other 18 hours of the day engaged in some sort of academic activity - paper writing, studying, review sessions, etc.) for 5 days now. ok ok, minus friday after 10:30pm (and the recovery ( Read more... )

i will be the answer at the end of the line ( Read more... )

i think we're required to hate the world that the previous generations created, and then in 20 years look back and see that we've changed nothing, then spend the rest of our lives trying to cope with the fact that we've changed nothing.

rafting was really fun this weekend. it felt REALLY good to be around friends from SD again. this weekend also opened my eyes to how much i've grown as a person this year and this summer, and how independent i've become. i'm really a lot more content being on my own than i used to be. still, it was so nice to be around friends. i feel like i ( Read more... )

i have so much to find out about myself. so much to figure out. i need to figure out where my life is going. tonight i ended the first phase -- simplifying my life. now it's time to start making decisions about who i am and why ( Read more... )

went home this weekend, got to see the family and kate doherty, as well as some family friends. got to go to saturn :). am i a loser for hanging out with my roommate while we were home for the weekend? i had an excuse, she needed to meet kate, and kate needed to meet cristin and rich, and rich needed to meet kate and eduardo. my two lives are ( Read more... )