This is well overdue, but as they say better late than never! My travels and thesis got to me, and then my laziness since I’m so overwhelmed with what I have left to write about.

Ah, back to Milan!

On our second day in our overheated hotel, my mom and I woke up and went up to the complimentary breakfast. I love hotels. And I love their complimentary ( Read more... )

Obviously, drinking is a big part of our culture, as it is here in the UK. The difference between us and the Brits is we drink more heavily on the liquor side, whereas they tend to go out for a pint or so of beer or cider. We love our shots, here, not so much. I've become a huge wimp when it comes to shots. I really have to psych myself up for it ( Read more... )

"And yet the place (Edinburgh) establishes an interest in people's hearts; go where they will, they find no city of the same distinction."
(R.L. Stevenson, Edinburgh, 1878)

It's pretty much been a year since I left New York to come to Edinburgh. A day of running around and watching my sister take off to Milan, a last dinner with the parents and ( Read more... )

I don't know how or when, but I've been placed into the 'smart' group of classmates ( Read more... )

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It's been one of those days. Yep. Nothing bad has happened, per say. I haven't lost my wallet, or found out someone has cancer, or broken a bone. Nothing like that ( Read more... )

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the past few weeks and now due to:

• visitors
• moving out
• last assessment
• finding a place
• moving in

I said my last goodbye to my last visitor for a while today when I left my brother at the gates to go through security. As I left, I found myself tearing again. Ever since last fall, I've found myself tearing up whenever I see people come or go at airports. I don't know when this happened. Loser.

We also said goodbye to some other classmates a few ( Read more... )