If you haven't heard this, it's not earth shattering,  but it's good and unexpected from her.  www.youtube.com/watch

In other news.

Something in my life has shifted. I'm not sure if it's the 21-year-old-ness, or something else, but something is definitely different. I'm pulling away from some things that I always held onto, and moving toward this ( Read more... )

 I can't write here without being pressingly conscious of the death of my - our - friend Matt. But because one of the last things he did was support Joe Raines in his fight for Livejournal, here I am again ( Read more... )

 My account has been inactive for longer than 90 days. This is very strange. 

...it's just begun. Yet I'm on a plane tomorrow bound back home, to my family and friends, away from all this beauty and history and academia and grandeur. It's wonderful over here. I'll never be back as a student, and that is depressing. Time to descend the mountain, back into the villages - "This way, there's work to do." 

Gosh. Okay. Lots to cover.

Our London adventure was fabulous. I was on a mission to find a very particular pair of shoes, which I found and purchased - they were the only pair in the store, and in exactly my size. I think it was fate. Les Mis was life-changing. I'd seen it twice before in the States, but over here it's just another ball game. The ( Read more... )

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This entry is just gonna be a bunch of good stories from the past week ( Read more... )

So this morning, as I was Skype-ing with my dad, my computer completely froze. I pressed the power button to turn the whole system off, and when I restarted it I got a grey screen with a blinking question mark in the middle of a file folder.

I've spent the last 6 hours either on the phone with the Apple Store in London or at the Apple Service ( Read more... )

On the train from one spot in Paris to another, in the midst of being terribly lost, Elizabeth and I sat side by side. The subway car was dingy, but not the way American subway cars are dingy. This dinginess was foreign and posh, reminiscent of the many European couples who'd publicly displayed their affection and many cigarettes hidden under seats ( Read more... )

This weekend we took a trip all over God's earth to visit different WWI battlefields, cemeteries, and memorials. It was a lot packed into three days, but I'll try to recap what I can.

We began in France, at a Canadian war memorial for the battle at "The Ridge" in Vimy. It could be because this was the first memorial we visited, but it's the most ( Read more... )