so i so hate flattery. i sound like a dramatic teenager, but freaking get over the popularity contest. i'm not even in the country, but somehow even going on facebook/myspace makes me want to throw the computer off the balcony. go take a shower  and don't put any product in your hair, and go for a walk outside by yourself, and don't write about it ( Read more... )

this is from a few days ago, but i'll post it anyway:

hello from beautiful slovenia. on tuesday evening, kev and i flew out of cincinnati airport to london. we got to fly first class, which was very fancy and made me kind of nervous. although i loved the reclining seat, i was kinda intimidated by the 14 buttons that i had to push simultaneously to ( Read more... )

summer so far: i work at a hospital where i have to wear a bowtie, and i work at a concession stand where i get sexually harrassed by one of the board members of the baseball leauge, who also happens to be the father of one of the boys that plays in the league. he's also married. i learned the beauty of public transportation in lake county. i live ( Read more... )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLwiLyE80HU

the following is an exerpt from zach braff's personal blog. if there's such a thing as a soulmate, sign me up.

"What else??? I had workman at my house all week fixing my fence. I kept thinking of a line from a Robert Frost poem entitled, “Mending Wall”.  It’s a great poem I’ve always remembered from high school. (See; those tax dollars for public ( Read more... )

home sweet home. grateful for kevin for driving me back to dayton at 2 in the morning and staying to help me pack and driving me around.  grateful for great parents who drive 4 hours to come get me. and really fun stories on the way home. for my dad driving me to work super early and never complains. and my mom who goes to the library for me to ( Read more... )

hey y'all. life's pretty busy right now, with the semester wrapping up, but it's all fun and good. this morning was stander symposium. i presented some research i did last semester on vegetarianism. it was cool. and yes, vegetarianism is a word.

this past weekend i got to go see Ben Folds in Columbus, at Ohio Wesleyan more specifically.  I went with ( Read more... )

:)               

watch this : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQCR02Unqhg

then..watch this... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPiwS7I443E

But someday I will wake
in a body that won’t break
On ground that doesn’t shake, not here

And someday I will live
in a house that’s built by hands that hold the world