Lately I can't stop thinking about Fred. ( Read more... )

I haven't really posted an update about what's going down these days in a while, so here's a random update from Anna.

Academically, things are intense but rewarding. Sometimes I feel a little overwhelmed, but it helps when I remember to approach the week as a week rather than a series of isolated days. In theory I've always done this, but I've ( Read more... )

Every now and then I drift away from spirituality to make sure that my 'mundane' life is satisfactory and in order. I abandon devotionals, pray infrequently, find myself disinterested in music and books... and work. Winter descends inside and I keep on moving until the time is right ( Read more... )

Flexeril (and maybe pain) causes my thoughts to be disjointed. It also, however, lends a strange and impactual clarity to my way of thinking. Thoughts are more succinct, heavier and sharper. Some are unsupported. Many sound like confessions. All of them are my thoughts, yet somehow I never thought them so... simply ( Read more... )

So the fucking title agency in Kentucky didn't have my title ready this Wednesday like they were supposed to have it. Not only did the guy we bought it from have to drive all the way to Frankfurt just to get rejected, but they only title on Mondays and Wednesdays and now it is too late. So unless they can do some crazy overnight thing, it might be ( Read more... )

I'm glad I got that sad entry out of my system, because right after that I was able to feel so much better ( Read more... )

For some reason I can't stop daydreaming about graduate school in Arizona. Grad school will be hard and tricky, and it would be awful to leave everybody behind... and yet the thought of going far away somehow appeals to me. So does another climate zone, just to experience it for a few years. I'm not sure why Arizona in particular is in my head, but ( Read more... )

"He said, 'I ate the last mango in Paris
Took the last plane out of Saigon
Took the first passport to China
And Jimmy there's still so much to be done'"

I am in a good mood. Part of this is due to Bunty; warm water and a new location really seem to have cheered him up. I can't stop watching him swim around and behave like a normal betta... it's ( Read more... )

Paperwork and laughter don't normally go together. Nobody likes bureaucracy. I, however, have spent a great deal of today openly grinning at it -- this is my kind of necessary evil. This is my kind of game ( Read more... )

Wow ( Read more... )