I don't think I've mentioned it here yet, but I'm going to Korea this summer for a two-week study abroad program through Simmons GSLIS and Yonsei University in Seoul. How crazy is that? The motherland, from whence I sprung ( Read more... )

Though I was able to spend lots of time with my family and even meet some distant relatives, and eat like a hobo at a replicator, my trip to Japan this year can be summed up in two words: cat. cafe.


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Sorry about being so completely negligent in posting lately. Stuff has happened ( Read more... )

Spent a lovely Thanksgiving weekend with the Wheelers/Kolakowskis/Anne's brother-in-law's mom in sunny Bar Harbor, Maine. I did a lot of huffing and hawing beforehand about how long the car ride was going to be, but then we borrowed the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows audio book and 5 hours in each direction passed by like nothing ( Read more... )

At Anne's suggestion, I went to New York this weekend with my parents and my brother since they were going there after visiting me in Boston, and what do you know, it just happened to land on a long weekend, so yay! We stayed in their usual purple apartment very close to Times Square, and I had to walk many times through that horrible crowd of ( Read more... )