I've moved to Blogger:

http://writteninvain.blogspot.com/

I glad my livejournal still exists, in case I ever feel like reliving the melodrama, but I needed a fresh start. Visit often, and comment.

I'm going to Vegas for a couple-few days in October. Hotel recommendations? How about activities other than college fairs?

Sooo ... no one warned me about Grad School and the importance of a Masters. Or maybe they did, somewhere in the background, but my disinterest deafened me to it. Either way, I apparently 98% need one to have any future in higher ed, admissions, advising, helping people be students, etc ( Read more... )

This is the story of the boys who loved me, the story of my first few desperate hours, my old flame, the first day of my life. My thinner life in songs, twisted recollection of emoting moments in dark spaces, smoke and my insecurity mirrored on stage, when I knew a possibility of being depserately, feverishly in love through eye contact, a space I ( Read more... )

We were elite in high school, early college, with LPs and limited-edition releases and obscure names; memories an inch wide and a mile deep of bands and shows and terms. Discrimination termed discerning: I rejected women, the entire gender, with one swift 15-year-old decision, because women just weren't as good at music. Can you imagine what else I ( Read more... )

It's mindmeltingly hot, sticky and sunny and nap-inducing. The warm breezes that would make the shade lovely are as absent as the high dust-swirling, hair-mussing winds promised of Ellensburg. I spent hours hanging nametags, a hypnotic smashing of colored papers to dirty dorm room doors ( Read more... )

Ahhh I just accepted my first post-college job!! Introducing Raven Avery, UW Admission Intern! With benefits and well-dressed co-workers.

"Three of us from Amy's CHID 390 class this quarter are working together to create a collaborative final project instead of writing individual final papers. Our project will look at the practice of tattooing, especially how it is used to inscribe or write history on the body. We would like to ask for the help of anyone willing to share their ( Read more... )

If you have somehow escaped my survey request thus far, and especially if you went to Mariner or Darrington, pleave take it now ( Read more... )

Here's the situation: I have to write a thesis, somewhere between 20 and 40 pagesish, which is totally do-able. Except we're entering week 5 of the quarter and I haven't started writing at all. I've barely done any research. I find any excuse not to work - today I had no reasonable distractions, so I spent an hour browsing ipod videos (I do not own ( Read more... )