They're all true.

This is my first week as a drop-out, for the second time. People who care about me keep reminding me that I earned a Masters degree, and that's nothing to sneeze at or whatever, but the whirlwind of the last five years keeps playing in my head as I try to figure out what I should have (could have) done differently. I probably ( Read more... )

Yeah, okay, so I'm mostly posting because procrastination beats required reading every time.

I left Santa Barbara six weeks ago with a BA in Sociology and Philosophy (high honors, thankyouverymuch), and now call Philadelphia home. For some comforting reason, my cohort thinks of me as the "Californian", but it's yet to be determined whether that ( Read more... )

Wow. Ten posts down, and I had only just started up at UC Santa Barbara. It's fitting that tonight is the first night of Hannukah, because I'm feeling a lot like a dreidel losing its momentum, but at the same time being watched by someone preparing to set it spinning again ( Read more... )

Just occurred to me that I am still paying for this thing, so I might as well post ( Read more... )

Things I miss about having a boyfriend ( Read more... )

The non-animal lovers and dog people reading this will probably write me off as silly, but I am missing Elliot so much right now I am to the point of tears ( Read more... )

For reasons that are beyond me, Fall quarter started on Thursday. I did go on campus to get some things done, and I had work at City College after that, but Friday was my first real day, and I'm not entirely certain I can withstand my self-imposed schedule for ten weeks. I only have classes on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, but they run back-to- ( Read more... )

Wow, talk about neglect ( Read more... )

Three days into Summer Sesson A at UCSB and I already have a bizarre but workable sleeping pattern, where I pass out in the evening and wake up at 4 o'clock in the morning. I'm "only" taking two classes, but they are killer. The first is Sociology of Law with an instructor who thinks he is House, although he's quite funny and the material is ( Read more... )

I don't know what to write about first, so this is in no particular order ( Read more... )