It has been difficult for me to maintain multiple blogs between school and work, so although I will keep my LJ, I am going to do almost all of my recreational blogging on Tumblr ( Read more... )

Today is my last day of being a teenager. I'm glad to have those years over with because I was just wasting them anyway. I'm just worried that nothing will change in the next decade.

Honestly, I had thought that by now I would have gotten drunk and/or laid at least once. I spent my adolescence rebelling rebellion, and I did everything so right ( Read more... )

The good news is the site and semester I’m applying for has a “generally good” chance of placement, and my advisor said I have a “fairly strong application” because of my GPA.

The bad news is I might not find out if I’m accepted until November.


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That awkward moment when you're applying to study journalism in Britain and the Rupert Murdoch scandal makes any praise for their media institutions seem sarcastic.


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Today I found out I have to write two essays for my study abroad application in addition to the two I already wrote and meticulously scrutinized for weeks ( Read more... )

I'm relieved to have finally started reading Catch-22, because that's what I've been telling people I've been reading for the past few weeks as I finished up Irvine Welsh's Porno.

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I had the quintessential summer day ( Read more... )

I discovered I was part French today, resulting in another afternoon spent surfing Ancestry.com.

German: 34.375%

English: 21.875%

Scottish: 15.625%

Polish: 9.375%

Bohemian (Czech Republic): 6.25%

French: 6.25%

Irish: 6.25%


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I was hired at the movie theater today!


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My jazz professor was explaining the gruesome effects of heroin addiction in class on Tuesday. I found myself in a slightly awkward position because I did not share my classmates' disbelief and disgust.

Well, I did five and a half years ago.

Nothing my professor said was anything I hadn't already read about in Trainspotting. Perhaps I should have ( Read more... )