A blase entry, seeing as this is my break and therefore no extravagant places were visited. I'm still mulling over going to Pompeii, Castel San Angelo, and the catacombs, and for a while Capri was thrown into the mix, but I don't think I'll be going to Capri. A sign of encouragement for another trip to Italy sometime in my future, perhaps?

( A little bit about the apartment, I guess. )

.....to have everything come together ( Read more... )

So. My Italian visa. Which I've been griping and moaning about and probably making a lot of you roll your eyes at me from all the melodrama.

But once more, with feeling: I HATE VISAS!!!!!!!!!!!However, I recognize that had I been more informed and if I'd been made more aware of what all the components were and when they were all due, I would be ( Read more... )

50 Books in a Year ( Read more... )

After I got back from class today I checked my student page, and found they'd posted the next quarter's schedule up. And so, like the complete and utter dork I am, I went and tried to arrange my schedule about a month in advance. And I could very well make a schedule where I have classes ONLY on Tues/Thurs, but A) I would wind up having to make a ( Read more... )

A quick and easy way to show that, though I'm an English major, I have such a long way to go to be "well-read." And to also show that an obscene number of books that I have on my shelf are not read (even though a lot of them were required reading...oops ( Read more... )

I like sunny weather. It's even the good kind of sunny weather--not too hot sunny weather, but not bone-freezing cold sunny weather like Washington sometimes gets. And we even get some precipitation, so it's not like "OMG, we're heading into a drought!!! FREAKOUT ( Read more... )

And I shall say it again for those who missed it.

OMG IT SSSSSSSNNNNNOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWEEEEEEEEEDDDDDD!!!!!!!I was actually up when it started layering, which was around 4 A.M. because I totally misjudged how difficult my homework/test was, but I couldn't really appreciate the full effect because, hello, 4 A.M. doesn't provide the best of light. ( Read more... )

College Drinking Games Lead to Higher Blood Alcohol Levels - washingtonpost.com

SUNDAY, Jan. 6 (HealthDay News) -- The first on-the-scene study of college drinking behavior shows that parties with drinking games result in higher blood alcohol levels, while themed parties encourage college women to drink more heavily than men, new research suggests ( Read more... )

Pictures of Centralia/Chehalis floodingI knew Chehalis/Centralia were completely flooded, but I didn't think it was this bad, or that the land was this low. I hope my friend's family down in Toledo is okay ( Read more... )