Things Indians Love: A Short Experiment in Cultural Insensitivity ( Read more... )

We are a family adept at attracting disaster, such that we are always equipped to deal with something going completely wrong in the least anticipatable way, and nobody is ever really surprised when it does, in fact, go wrong. But even taking that into consideration this trip was a pretty amazing failure ( Read more... )

As I was getting off the train at Philly station, the dude behind me started spraying on cologne. Note that this dude was enormous--and by enormous I do not mean fat, I mean Hagrid--and getting down luggage for all the girls on the train. Then he leans over to me and says ( Read more... )

So it's three-forty in the morning, I'm hiding in the hotel bathroom, and the upshot of all of this is that I won't have internet access (although it's been limited anyway, hello home) until at least Tuesday next. So I would like preemptively to wish everybody happy Christmas and other assorted appropriate wintry holidays; I adore all of you. <333 ( Read more... )

I am planning my untimely death from pre-school nerviness. The professors, they keep sending me e-mails! I have to write down all this stuff and I haven't got a notebook here with me! Ngggah. Also my God no one sells Diet Dr. Pepper it is completely immoral and barbaric ( Read more... )

I'd just kind of like to state for the record that it's an hour past our departure time, and, once again, the fact that my father is alive has everything to do with my self-control and nothing to do with him. Forty-five minutes ago I asked him if he would put his suitcase in the car so I could finish doing the packing, and he looked at me and said ( Read more... )

I am sitting in the Philadelphia train station right now, barely conscious because I took my medicine on the train and slept three hours, and it's almost five o'clock. (I'll be home in two hours! Well, three, counting the drive, but at least I'll be with my family in two.) I really don't like travelling.

Anyway, you should all check out this post ( Read more... )

I'm home...!

Had an adventure getting home. Got in to New York Central Station with an hour and ten minutes to the time I thought I should be on my train, and then, because of some strange and inexplicable survival instinct which I will never place or understand, asked a security guard whether my ticket was okay. She directed me to Information, where I was told ( Read more... )

I got lost so. much. to-night. Auuugh. But I did go to Chelsey's party, and it was quite nice, she was lovely. She is graduating high school two years early. I think she can handle it, though. Also she gave me a story to beta for her. And I, special me, did not have any fits of augh and have to hide somewhere feeling sorry for myself. Except when I ( Read more... )