wow, its been ages. But, as Zain keeps telling me to get out of the house and that I should do something because birthdays are the one day when you get an excuse to do whatever you want, I feel that today deserves at least a little documentation ( Read more... )

well, it is official ( Read more... )

what exactly can I say... the time since I left london has been a whirlwind. the pisa airport was closed, so we landed in genoa and were loaded onto coach buses. zain was already at pisa waiting for me, so he took a bit of a nap to pass the additional two hours till i arrived. finally made it to florence, found parking, carried my bags up to ( Read more... )

in london and its been so fucking windy that I could swear I've been in chicago, that and have been almost blown-over a few times, including practically in front of a bus. fantastically, johanna and i met up on saturday (first time seeing her since the end of may), had dinner, and relived roomate-ness when she slept over my hotel room so she ( Read more... )

Our date was lovely, truely lovely. Sushi was a godsend after being deprived of it since leaving the states in August. Zain had never had green tea ice cream (i was shocked) and was surprised at how good it was. Haha, there are seven people in his team at GE and they share two cars, he finageled (sp?) his way into getting the beamer last night ( Read more... )

first: a belated buon natale, buon capodanno and buon anno to everyone ( Read more... )

okay, well just to add to my last entry, although this has not erased any nighttime loneliness, just when you think about how wide the world is . . . it turns out to be incredibly small. last night i was supposed to be seeing Bianca Genchi, her little sister Jackie and her parents since they are in town visiting her, but plans didn't end up ( Read more... )

Oooh, The Decemberists are playing here on the 20th! Oh so very excited ( Read more... )

I spoke to my mom for a while yesterday. Steph and Erick are seriously considering leaving and moving to Toulouse, France for Erick's grad school or central america (probably to his relatives?. Ma started crying towards the end of the call because she hates to see Steph and I like this. She says she wants to drop a note in our neighbor's mailbox ( Read more... )

NO, NO, NO, this cannnot be happening.....How can this be? Is this really the world that we've been born into? How did 90% of my peers not feel that it was worth it to get off their bland lazy asses and exert the powerful voice, the right they have been born with? This is absolutely ridiculous. How dare Kerry call himself a fucking Democratic ( Read more... )