“There are going to be so many people there who are happy,” I complained. I tried to add, “and not stressed out,” when I realized that I sounded like an asshole, but the pause was still there. My best friend laughed at my anxious student whining on our way to the 24-hour café near our […]
Oh look, it’s a blog! Hello blog, how are you doing? I’m doing great, thanks for not asking because you’re a blog and can’t do that unless I tell you to. When I first got to Paris I was required to blog twice a week as part of my program. In spite of the fact […]
It’s We Blog, We Vlog day! Woo! The prompt is to talk about how you’d spend your last few weeks before the end of the world. Here’s my answer. If you’d rather skip that whole video thing, I have a joint-guest post over at Democracy Diva in which we snark the cinematic atrocity that is […]
I have now been informed by a handful of people who are far away from me that this is the only way anyone can count on me to share things, and I have been sucking at it. Part of me is tempted to be dismissive and say that I haven’t been blogging due to a […]
California has become something of a mythical force in my life. I was in high school when we left, already filled with more angst than my poor parents should have had to deal with. Along with every high school kid who has ever been forced to move, I was not particularly pleased to move to […]
I am trying to keep the vlog and the blog separate, but it’s only working out about 50% of the time. I broke my arm a week and a half ago and I vlogged about it. I don’t feel like writing about it too. In other, unrelated news: I’m officially moving back to LA. I […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]