Road Trip Stories: Gasoline, Strangers, & Being Resourceful

I have been road tripping and have stories to share. Many stories. I realized that this blog was started well after the bulk of my road trip adventures, so I think I am going to start some sort of weekly thing where I rehash some of the better stories. Mostly, this is a way of […]

September 25, 2012

in-between times

I have started unpacking. “Finally,” you might say, if you are the responsible sort. Of course, if you are the responsible sort, you probably wouldn’t be back in your parents’ house. Or maybe you would — that’s a question I’m still sorting out. Of course, the post-tornado aesthetic still reigns supreme in my room. All I’m saying […]

August 29, 2012

Happiness and the law of proximity

Everyone knows all about the weird, “What am I doing with my life?” game that Facebook can incite. You sign on and your newsfeed is inundated with weddings and babies from your former classmates. Even though I have no desire to have any of those things now, there is sometimes this feeling that these things […]

August 23, 2012

Potential-Abduction Security Measure

My spring-break-travel-buddy and I have a remarkable flair for encountering awkward situations in foreign countries. There have been several moments on this trip that made me think, “She would be so proud.” I still don’t entirely understand what happened today, but I’m currently spending my final night in Split in some random Croatian man’s spare […]

August 3, 2012

In the jungle, the mighty jungle

“And who are you going to stay with in Croatia?” my mom asked me, at around 1am, Paris time. I was supposed to be packing or cleaning. I left my apartment for the very last time, and set off for the airport at 4:30 on Monday morning. “Nobody. It’s just me.” Knowing her, knowing me, […]

August 2, 2012

20sb Blog Swap: Summer Camp & Idiot Boys

Hello, dear readers. Today is 20sb Blog Swap day. Members of the lovely 20 Something Bloggers community have gotten together to write posts and trade blogs for the day. The assignment was to write about our favorite childhood summer vacation but I’ve never been good at reading the instructions and just thought we were writing […]

July 24, 2012

Visiting Rennes, a YouTube friend, and ZOMG I’M GOING HOME.

As my departure from Europe is now imminent, and classes are finally over leaving me on several weeks of actual vacation (ZOMG WHAT IS THIS?) before I start writing my thesis (EW), I went out to Rennes, France this weekend. The Thursday vlogger for The Expat Chronicles lives near there, and since we know my […]

July 23, 2012

Being a hot mess and making Clarissa proud.

The other day I was thinking to myself, “This blog is beginning to sound like I’m getting my shit together. Graduating and not falling in gutters? This girl is like a real person!” This is obviously false. I’m not sure what being a real adult actually looks like, but I’m pretty sure it doesn’t include […]

July 6, 2012

Vlogging Lions

You may have noticed a trend in my decision to post or not post videos from The Expat Chronicles to this blog, namely that my cross-posting decision is really a question of, “Do I actually like this video?” This week’s topic is kind of just us talking about us, so I’m not sure how much […]

July 2, 2012

Endings, Beginnings, and Transience

This morning I started to send an email to the other members of the Snark Squad about all the things that I was going to to do as soon as my life settled down and I stopped living like a transient. I realized two things (1) I have been living like this for a while […]

June 28, 2012

Let’s have relations.

I have begun to experience my life in tweet form, and it makes blogging feel a tad impossible. I end up with a few dozen stories that I’d like to share, each in 140 characters or less. Forgive me if this lack of focus is evident. As my final project for the course I am […]

June 14, 2012

Baby Spice in Morocco

I have a whole hell of a lot of super blonde hair that I do approximately nothing with. It’s an accomplishment if I brush it. This hair calls attention to itself everywhere. Even back in Missouri, some of the middle school students in my classes (during my stint as a substitute teacher) called me Ms. […]

June 11, 2012