So my roommate woke me up at 3:30 this morning to tell me the house next door was on fire. We joined her dad out on the back deck and holy shit was it on fire! It was completely ablaze...embers were falling everywhere - on us, on the deck, on the trees. Liz and I kept wiping our heads to get the embers and ash out of our hair. This borough of ( Read more... )

'Ello 'ello! My two weeks abroad are done and I'm back in classes. London was fantastic! I seriously wouldn't mind living there for a while. We went on dayt rips to Bath, Canterbury, Dover, Cardiff, Stratford-on-Avon, and some others that I can't even remember due to a grand combination of information overload and sleep deprivation. The ( Read more... )

I spent Christmas at home with Nigel, Daphne and Naomi (whom I have taken to calling "Nomers" because, well, it came out like that once and stuck and has thus replaced "Little One" as her official nickname). Christmas Eve, however, was spent baking throughout the afternoon and chilling with Doc, his two kids (one of whom is my sometimes roommate ( Read more... )

I'm getting on a big old jet airliner (hopefully not too old) in less than two weeks. Preparations are pulling together, and it looks like I won't be completely broke overseas...that is, if my ATM card actually works this time. My prof suggested we all open an account with PSECU because is who he uses and he's never had any trouble, so as long as ( Read more... )

Perhaps I'm getting a bit bored with Blogger and may want to make this my official blog...but then again, maybe not. We shall see ( Read more... )

Yes, the rumors are true: I only created this account to get access to a friend's new friends-only LJ. My real blog is over in the cool people's domain: Blogspot. Check it out at koalasarenotbears.blogspot.com. It may not have a cute little kitty, but it has champagne and live piano. Plus, I just *know* you're curious about how my job is going ( Read more... )