did you know that a postgrad can only check out ten books at a time from the Trinity library's collections of 4.5 million? (undergrads are limited to 4 ( Read more... )

my phone just rang ( Read more... )

i love early nights with hot soup, warm milk, and rosemary polenta ( Read more... )

I've entered that difficult stage between euphoria and adaptation. This is going to be the hardest part of living in this new place.
I have friends here, but they're not close enough to be good friends yet. The really close friends that I have are on another continent, hard to keep in touch with and reaffirm my idea of selfhood. Avi's begun to ( Read more... )

I've been bad, way bad, about the LJ thing. And since I'm currently in a distract-y sort of mood, I'm going to sum up the past two weeks in bullet points rather than prose. At least, that's the intent. But y'all know me -- I can intend as much as I want and end up in a totally different place ( Read more... )

I haven't updated in a long time, and I don't honestly have the time to now -- class starts in 8 minutes, but it's right next door so here's a quickie letting y'all know that I haven't died ( Read more... )

Last night I dreamed that: I served time in the army in China
I was going to go to grad school in South Africa
I was hanging with friends, including ergood, who knew my face but nothing more. His memory had been wiped ( Read more... )

Today, Alon and I navigated our walking way to two synagogues. It took us an hour and change. The progressive one was completely empty and locked, but the orthodox one that we found (of three mentioned online) was recovering from some kids' event. We met the rabbi and his wife. First three questions: "Are you Jewish?" "Are you married?" "An ( Read more... )

I've got internet in my room. However, in my eagerness to re-plug in my computer, I may have blown out all of the power outlets in my room. Not even the Irish appliances work. Also, AIM isn't up yet.... but it's a start ( Read more... )

+ $257 tonight ( Read more... )