home stretch now!! and this is a good one, because berlin may have been my favourite stop ( of all. )

on to ( china! )

so life has been a little up and down this year, but if nothing else, saigon was a resounding success!!1 mostly. i pulled an itinerary out of my ass two days before we left, so i'm just pleased it wasn't a total suckfest. the hotel was maybe a little bit of a suckfest for my parents with the traffic noise and the construction work going on at 2 in ( Read more... )

a couple of nights ago, i woke up and legitimately could not feel my legs. i rolled out of bed and tried to stand and my left leg crumpled like it wasn't even my own. that's the most terrified i remember being in at least the past decade. even though i knew, logically, that the chest pains were muscular and there was nothing wrong with my heart, ( Read more... )

i've been terrible at updating. i keep thinking about it, in the shower, on the train, at the cinema, but then i get home and i just--don't. so: cliffnotes, it is!

things that happened in my 27th year of life:

• i graduated. it was, very likely, the most important thing i will ever do in my life. i didn't get hooded by judy, which would have been ( Read more... )

you know that feeling you get from inadvertently doing an awful thing to someone you've grown to truly despise and then getting an unholy amount of joy out of it? i didn't either, until tonight! i laughed so much i thought i was going to be sick, and i'm not even sorry. if nothing else, tonight has taught me that being petty brings you much more ( Read more... )

leaving home gets harder every time i do it.

even when i know i have awesome friends and an awesome roommate and a lovely home and the best training of my career to come back to america to, it's hard.

if i hold out two more years - hopefully less, but let's go with the worst scenario possible - i'll never have to do it again.


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mostly i'm doing this because i'm trying to stave off the start of a panic attack by procrastinating thinking about school at all, but also i'd really like for there to be some kind of record about the amazing time i had when i got to go home for the first time in a year, holy crap. plus i got to spend my birthday at home, which--how awesome was ( Read more... )

crazy wonderful amazing whirlwind of a week, and i can finally talk about it without fear of ruining the surprise for anyone!

sunday:

• make it through 14 hours of flying (5 eps of friends, 5 movies, and a 2-hour nap), a two hour layover in dubai, 7 more hours of flying (3/4 a movie and 4.5 hours of on and off napping)
  
• TOUCHDOWN IN SINGAPORE!
  
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it has been a ridiculous (and ridiculously awesome) couple of weeks. new york was so much fun, even after the disaster that was my first evening. forty minute wait for a shuttle compounded with a two hour ride to a hotel on ten hours with no food is no one's idea of a good time, i'm sure. and the i wandered the neighbourhood hoping to find a place ( Read more... )