Hmm. Its been a while. At the moment, I am home sick on my few precious days off, it always seems to happen that way. I love autumn and looking at it out my window, and I'm finding this ill weekend a great excuse to start my reading for next semester. I'm taking a course on American women's biography in the long nineteenth century. Its funny to be ( Read more... )

this has been such a wonderful and productive summer, challenges included, I can hardly believe it. I'm starting to get a bit more freelancing work online, and lying here in my pretty and cave-like basement surrounded by cedar beams.. I could see just staying here, trying to really make something out of this work online, becoming a little ( Read more... )

In 2 days the zine anthology (aka book of my writing from the past 8 years, which happened to be released periodically in zine form) will be available for purchase. It kind of blows my mind- I never thought that I would have a 270 page "art book" to my credit. And when I flip through the beautiful proof that came to me in the mail during my ( Read more... )

I like to pretend I can time travel, or at least I say that I can suspend the moment. I do it by not thinking as much about tomorrow or the next thing. Its hard but a good challenge. I've worked over 40 hours this week and I still have tomorrow- but i mostly like what I am doing and feel good about teaching little kids art and art history- it ( Read more... )

I am lying in bed, playing on the internets next to the sweetheart that i love, who is reading about recipes with pimmcups for summertime fun drinks. We are in the UNITED STATES. which feels so good, almost as good as it will feel when we get back to Europe together in the fall. Back on foreign/home soil. But first we will both live through ( Read more... )

At work in Paris, teaching beginning French to Evergreen students on a cultural study abroad for their Spring quarter, and accompanying them to museums and concerts. Its a wonderful job, and in 3 weeks I will leave Europe and return to the United States for the summer. I'm also graduating with my BA. So looking forward to cats laying on my body, a ( Read more... )

It's been so cold in London. Everything is frozen. Fountains, sidewalks. I am hoping that tonight, as predicted, we will receive some snow. My sweetheart's birthday was yesterday and we had a wonderful evening of celebration despite trying to move around on cold public transport between warm places. Now he has gone on a trip to Paris, and I am here ( Read more... )

happiest of new years to any lingering readers.. I think that this where I come when I don't know where else to put what I have to say. I arrived back in London about 4 days ago, and it seems like a good place to start my new rotation of the year. I love it here, and feel inspired to write and send out writing and get to work on my thesis. The ( Read more... )

sometimes I forget that i can make things, that I can create stories and ideas even after so long of having it be a part of my life. and if I just readjust my mind and loosen things up, I can start again. Right now I am working on what I think might be a novella.. its a fictional piece that sort of accompanies all the research I am doing in ( Read more... )

I am feeling pretty stoked, but also relaxed. I've been working so hard since I arrived in France a couple of months ago. I'm sick of my language school, but I only have to conjugate advanced grammar for one more month and then I will be free. I've sent off two out of three of my graduate school applications for next year in the UK, I am really ( Read more... )