dudes. it is 80 degrees in boston and i am going to the beach in 10 min. with my painting class!

hello livejournal. i am in paris, at an internet cafe on the rue mouffetard. i have been here two days so far and it is totally amazing. today i am going to the pere lachaise, an old cemetery, to look at oscar wilde's grave. whoa! i can't believe i'm here! it's so awesome! brushing up on my french, eating a lot of crepes and croissants, ( Read more... )

guys, i have my teach for america interview on tuesday. i need to put together a 5 minute lesson to "teach" to the other interviewees, any grade level k-12. i can't decide what to do! do i ( Read more... )

it's 12:18 a.m., and i am GOING to finish this chapter of my thesis tonight if it means staying up till tomorrow morning or afternoon. it's already a week overdue. why can't i ever work with self-imposed deadlines? just because they are not official does not make them any less real -- my thesis has to be finished by march 14 and ready to hand in ( Read more... )

check out this nytimes article: Love That Dare Not Squeak Its Name. it's about GAY PENGUINS. and they are SO CUTE (there's a picture of them nuzzling ( Read more... )

in the past couple days i:
1. went to a tanglewood concert on friday night
2. bought a bunch of insanely cheap classical cds (see here) and then died of happiness ( Read more... )

so i am considering deleting this livejournal cuz i don't have the time to keep up with it, but for now i decided to make my friends list only the people who i am actually friends with. so basically, if we know each other and are friends, or if we are penpals and zine friends outside of livejournal, or if we have been on each others friends lists ( Read more... )

oh yeah, and in case you were starting to feel happy there for a minute, here's another article to bring you down: Poll: Americans' Support for Bush, War Grows. 7/10 americans supported bush's speech last night. 71% think that war is the only answer to disarming iraq. 2/3 of women now support a war.

i can't stop freaking out. i fell asleep last night around 9:30 and just woke up, kept waking up every couple hours and at one point had my head where my feet usually are. i don't remember my dreams. thankfully. i was supposed to read two books and fill out my financial aid application and write a long e-mail to i. last night but i seriously ( Read more... )

there is a q&a "instant analysis" section with a washington post editor up on the site, and i thought this question was priceless:

Boulder, Colo.: Why have people accepted that the U.S. was being diplomatic about Iraq for the past months, when the Bush administration had no other objective than to make war and bring along as much diplomacy as they ( Read more... )