Geez...I knew I hadn't written here for a while, but I didn't realise it'd been two months ( Read more... )

I had a terrible attack of social anxiety this evening. There's a girl who I really want to be friends with and she invited me to her birthday party and I just couldn't go. Why???? I've also had two panic attacks in the last month. One made sense; the other kinda didn't. I'm trying not to obsess about this too much. Everyone has these moments ( Read more... )

I am so jet-lagged it's giving me a headache. I made no plans for yesterday because I was expecting this. I was asleep at midnight, but was woken up by friends in Leamington phoning to wish me a happy new year and passing the phone around in a noisy pub. I then returned to bed and watched the shadows of fireworks on the wall in front of me that ( Read more... )

Staying at home for the holidays is always a bit weird and regressive, but this time we have to add claustrophobic to the mix. My brother finished uni since the last time I came home, and so add him, all his possessions and his three ferrets to my dad's already small house. Neither of us ever stay with mom, for many reasons. It's been great to ( Read more... )

round and round ( Read more... )

There is mold growing all over the wall of my bedroom. I've had suspicions, but it was not confirmed until today when Chad moved his laundry basket and found that the growth had sprawled in all directions behind it and even started exploring the carpet below. We've both been waking up with chest congestion and have convinced ourselves it's the ( Read more... )

I've been gone for a month-ish as my teaching load is quite heavy. In short, it's going well and I enjoy it. I'm really impressed by Warwick's undergrads--wow. Such a different classroom experience from those I had when I was 18 ( Read more... )

Spent 5 hours on the bus and 1 hour on the Tube today. Why? To commute to Coventry to give some new postgrads an introduction to Warwick Uni. I was asked to give the 'international perspective' on how it was to adjust to England, and Warwick Uni specifically. It was hard to remember those days, and lots of me didn't want to. But I was honest ( Read more... )

Shit. I'm an adult. I have to wake up at 6.30am tomorrow to get to Warwick for a staff meeting, which will be followed by a meeting with the professor who is convening the course on which I'll be teaching a seminar. I have three classes this year--all year--which is A LOT for a first time teacher. Tomorrow will be my first chance to try this ( Read more... )

Due to parental guilt, I spent last week in Chicago. It was all very rushed and much of the usual, so nothing really worth posting about. Highlight was all the good food; Letdown was the increased gentrification of my old neighbourhoods. There are two things that you should know though ( Read more... )