I'm home in Stalem until tomorrow evening or Sunday morning--woohoo! fatalism! no point in confirming return date when I'm stuck here until then anyway!--but it's not really worth recounting.  Merry Christmas, I guess?  I somehow transformed into 100% Grinch this year because all this holiday hoo-hah is failing to elicit any kind of warm, fuzzy, ( Read more... )

a) I finally have my license and a car. The car is a potential source of distress because I shouldn't have nice things--if I'm only now learning how to take care of my nice(r) shoes, I really have no business trying to take care of a several thousand dollar vehicle. My driving instructor was this totally avuncular Iranian-Paki dude who took me ( Read more... )

Ugh, I'm somewhat disgusted with myself--my idea of sleeping in is getting up at 7:40 am ( Read more... )

Lots of things are still up in the air right now.  Every now and then I think I'm okay with that, but that feeling of comfort subsides as soon as I have some down time and I just wig out again.  Some Swiss people put together a site called "Need a Problem" that seemingly operates on Schopenhauer's idea that boredom is the true enemy of happiness.  ( Read more... )