Packing, Underwear, and Earthquakes

Moving out of my apartment and heading off to Morocco meant more time with one of my most despised activities: packing. I’m sure I have blogged about my hatred of packing a lot before. Or, at least, I am sure that I have thought to myself, “I should blog that,” many times while mentally drafting […]

June 4, 2012

Moving

Yesterday I moved out of my apartment. My apartment saga has been something of a character in my life in Paris, so it seems necessary to mention that here. I am actually a little sorry — regardless of what my last post says — for all of the introspective endings and beginnings and life in transition crap that is […]

June 1, 2012

A blog birthday and a “graduation”

Saturday was the second anniversary of my first post to this blog. I feel like I should do something to mark the occasion, but I am not quite sure what to say. That is sort of a running theme with me lately. When I started this blog two years ago I had just graduated from […]

May 22, 2012

Finals & Being A Real Person

Yesterday I woke up and decided, “I am leaving the 7th today. It’s time to be a real person.” To clarify: I had to leave my neighborhood regardless, I just decided that this meant that I should also be a real person. When a friend complimented my dress I was a little taken aback by […]

May 9, 2012

Cold showers, complaints, and a bucket

Do you know what is quite possibly the most miserable thing out of all of the things? Cold showers. They are a special kind of torture. My advice for cold-shower-taking is to begin frantic humming before you actually direct the water onto your body. That way, you are already warmed up for the squeal-like noise […]

May 4, 2012

20sb Vlog Day: Tour de Mardi

Given the fact that I have given 20sb its own frequently used tag, coupled with my recent obsession with vlogging, it was kind of inevitable that I’d participate in this year’s vlog day, isn’t it? The theme is “Give us a tour,” and I just couldn’t give another “tour” of my shoebox apartment. I don’t […]

May 1, 2012

Letting go, moving on.

Placing oceans between yourself and your loved ones inevitably means that you don’t get to talk to them nearly as much as you’d like. Phone calls from my mother are always welcome, and usually contain some new words of wisdom that I really needed to hear in that moment. I inherited the GO ON ALL […]

April 30, 2012

Vlogging conversations and identity chatter

It very well may appear as though I have fallen disturbingly in love with vlogging. As in, it is bordering on “a problem.” That might be true. Over at this collaboration channel we have been having these fantastic conversations, and it has been so much more interactive than this blog. Granted, part of this has […]

April 22, 2012

The Expat Chronicles, Saint Malo, and Accomplishment Math

My brother came to town for nearly a week to help me celebrate my birthday. Over the weekend we went to Saint Malo. I have amassed a ton of things that I want to eventually put together videos for, which means that I’ll probably throw up a random video of my brother’s visit in September, […]

April 10, 2012

Stories From Ghana: Kakum (video)

I am finally taking the time to go through all the random, weird videos I took on our trip to Ghana. I have considerably more video from Kakum National Park, just north of Cape Coast, than any other place we visited, so it merited its own full video. There will be more of these later, […]

April 7, 2012

The Expat Chronicles: Change, Family, and other Adult-like things

HI. It’s now Wednesday and I uploaded this on Monday. If it feels like I am essentially spamming my own blog with videos, I should add that I am also doing VEDA, which means that this could be so much worse. But since this is part of a collaborative project, I feel a certain obligation […]

April 4, 2012

Glitter Face

The amazing Shelly sent me the greatest birthday present ever, and I had to document it. Also, it is clear that I need a new hobby, because my quest to get the most use of this video camera before I’m forced to give it back is getting out of control. And a photo for posterity: […]

April 1, 2012