Ever since starting college, I've spent a lot of time away from home. And it feels like every time I leave, I'm getting a little further away -- in terms of distance, in terms of emotions. The sequence is logical and natural, I guess: as the years go by, you just get more and more wrapped up in your new life. College is the place of the present and ( Read more... )

i am expanding my web presence in the usual highly disorganized fashion:

probably lost in prague: a photo/updates blog chronicling my adventures thus far

life list: my list of things to do before i die :)

please visit and leave love!<3

Take it, please? I think it's a fun one :)

True or False
1. I made you a birthday card. You still have it.
2. I _ _ _ _ you.
3. You secretly hate it when I say "Tell me a story!"
4. The "brown and sticky" joke is HILARIOUS.
5. I'm terrible on the phone, it's better when it's us all alone (tell me if it all works out)

Multiple Choice1. I am ( Read more... )

I've been obsessed with lists lately, from things to do before I leave to things to do before I die (found at my videoblog and life list blog, respectively). But one thing I feel like I've .. repeatedly discovered this summer is that I'm irreversibly, unbelievably old. Of a different generation. Especially when I talk to students younger than me ( Read more... )

one of the most beautiful nights i ever had in irvine occurred in junior year - i was driving home after the christmas journalism party. it was not cold enough to be crisp but not warm enough to be balmy, just a mild cottony softness that hung in the air. at the intersection, there was one car in each turn lane from each direction (back then, i was ( Read more... )

one of the things i've missed the most, i think, that i haven't realized i missed until i got home was the simple pleasure of sitting outside on these warm summer nights. for much of the year, it's entirely too cold in new york for that to be possible, and when its warm enough, the courtyard is much too clogged with smoke and the surrounding ( Read more... )

It's my sister's last day of school tomorrow, so she's been bringing her work from the school year home. Included in her writing folder was a silhouette of George Washington's side profile, with an attached "informative" "essay" (or, at least, what my sister considers informative).

Her summary of his life's most salient points is as follows:

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So I'm currently procrastinating on an art paper for tomorrow (about bronze vessels from the Shang and Zhou dynastic periods, boooooo! aksd;jfksdl;gjka;as) and a midterm on Wednesday. And I figured .. what better time to put down some thoughts? They've been floating around for awhile, and they're pretty jumbled -- apologies in advance. Apologies, ( Read more... )

christmas eve: worked 11-8:30 ( Read more... )

i'm trying to write my paper for historical epics, so i may just have asian lit on my mind, but ..

i'm finally listening to the spill canvas after getting "no really, i'm fine" off ruckus when it dropped in .. october? anyway, i put on "all over you," a pretty emo anthem about unrequited love, which begins:

yeah he's a looker but i really think ( Read more... )