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Son of a bitch. Damn you, dollar! Can't you wait TWO MORE MONTHS?!?!

I realized yesterday that, egads, I'll be home in less than two months.

Two months!

Less than!Which is not to say I'm not excited to go home and spend time with my family, because I am. Totally! Especially for my NYC birthday road trip with Megan and my brothers ( Read more... )

I feel the end of my time in London looming. Ten-ish weeks remain before I'm back in Chicago. I'm excited about going home because I really, really miss my family. I'm also eager to finally begin the soul-crushing journey of finding a job in my chosen career field ( Read more... )

Well ( Read more... )

Blackcurrant will never be a suitable replacement for grape to me. Got that, England?

I've generally been in a nice, pleasant mood since the beginning of March. I'm not quite sure why (it's not like we are having a wondrous early spring or something). I'm trying not to look the good-mood-gift-horse in the mouth and just enjoy it ( Read more... )

So apparently England had an earthquake at 12:56 this morning. I must have slept right through it. I read that London didn't really feel the effects, but it was a pretty big one. Especially for England, which I never really think of as a big earthquake zone ( Read more... )

The beginning of this week/month started out dreary, chaotic, and depressing. It was cold, raining, galing (is that a word? gale-windy?), and there wasn't heat on in the house. My sinus infection progressed and on Wednesday I was sent home from work after < 1 hour because I sounded horrible. I proceeded to sleep through most of Weds and Thurs, ( Read more... )

I haven't written in here for almost a month, and while a lot of nice and crazy and exciting things have happened, including seeing Ricky Gervais and meeting two crazy Irish dudes, I do not feel like describing them at the moment ( Read more... )

I started this entry yesterday but it was too busy to finish it before I had to leave work. So I'm going to try to work on it now.

My paid account expires tomorrow today, and I have no money to renew it. Not that it matters because I never used the paid account benefits, really. But it honestly seems like just yesterday I was like, "Ah, what the ( Read more... )