I can think back to about three or four precise moments when I feel that the world has drastically changed. These past two days have been one of those moments where I feel the world is no longer the same and some how everything has become so different ( Read more... )

This was a pretty successful semester in several ways. While academically I don't think I've learned as much as I have in the past, I've definitely made many personal strides ( Read more... )

We had our final Xhosa exam today. It was a lot harder than I thought it was going to be, but I should've expected that since I feel asleep at 8pm and had to wake up at 5:30am for school. After the Xhosa exam, we watched two videos, one on Steve Biko and one on South African rural life. It was really hard to understand the first video because of ( Read more... )

Read this article "Seattle Nearing Record for Rainy Days ( Read more... )

Has it always rained this much in Seattle? At least I'm retreating to Arizona for a week! I'll be in nice 70-80 degree weather, aka Seattle summers and Poughkeepsie Springs. (Can you pluralize the season "Spring"? ... strange) Anyways, Arizona will be great. I'll get to hangout with my best cuz D-lauer, my favorite/least favorite uncle Bobby, and ( Read more... )

Emergency averted. It actually wasn't such a big deal getting to the city after Vassar realized that it might be tough to get to the airports and offered an emergency transport shuttle. So I just took all my stuff (80lbs+) to Main Circle, loaded it into the shuttle, got off the shuttle at JFK, and then waited around (the latter of which should be ( Read more... )

How am I going to get home?? :(!

The MTA workers are all on strike. There is no way to get to New York City and JFK!

I don't know what is going to happen if I can't get to JFK! AHHH!!

There are talks of MTA (public transit) strikes in New York City:http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/nyc_transit_talks;_ylt=

I've reached a point in my life where I really hate overeating and am pretty disgusted by the feeling. I just ate way too much these past two days and it is making me feel really sick. I also hate people who peer pressure me into eating more than I want. I don't think I will tolerate it anymore - so please, stop it ( Read more... )

Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes,
how do you figure our last year on EarthThe heart may freeze or it can burn. The pain will ease if I can learn. There is no future. There is no past. I live this moment as my last. There's only now. There's only here. Give into love or live in fear ( Read more... )