Winter break is almost over, and it's been lovely. Other than the tonsillectomy, but that also had its benefits in that I got three weeks out of work. I started feeling lots better after a week and a half. Yay!
Books read over break:
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery (fiction) - Really amazing. About an apartment full of rich people ( Read more... )

Last Friday I had my tonsils out, which is apparently much more of a big deal for a 21-year-old than for an 8-year-old, so since then I've been laying about on the couch, watching many many movies and reading everything in sight. The most annoying part is being incredibly hungry, but eating is rather painful. I'm getting better though. Today I ( Read more... )

New Year's Survey! I have a ritual of doing this at the end of every year.

( 2009! )

Things I want to do on winter break:

• Get a haircut. My bangs are so overgrown that they attack my eyes constantly.
• Organize my closet, hang stuff up, take old stuff out, maybe sell clothes & shoes that I don't wear enough on ebay.
• Start a blog and update it frequently! A blog of the fashion/lifestyle/photography/random musings sort. There is ( Read more... )

I FINISHED WRITING ALL MY FINALS. Oh my God, it feels good. I just have one that is finished, but not turned in yet, for a (wonderful) American philosophy class (Thoreau & Emerson! oh, and the pragmatists too). The professor is amazingly awesome, so he's throwing a party for his students at his house on Friday night, and told us to bring our final ( Read more... )

Reply to this meme by yelling "Words!" and I will give you five words that remind me of you. Then post them in your LJ and explain what they mean to you. These are from norrell.

New England, books, the sea, writing, fall.

New England: I've lived in New England my whole life so far and I feel very attached to it. I'll probably live elsewhere eventually ( Read more... )

The Providence Journal had a feature the other day on interesting things to do on Memorial Day. I picked “Shop Downcity,” an event on Westminster St. where the shops do kind of a sidewalk sale, selling stuff outside at discounted prices. My mom came along with me. We got there toward the end of the day so there wasn’t all that much left, but it was ( Read more... )

I'm sitting in the lobby of the English building at school, which is blissfully empty since it's one of the last days of finals. After I turn in a poetry portfolio and have a meeting with a professor (about whether or not I should go to grad school), I'll be officially done with my junior year of college. I'm taking an online summer class, a senior ( Read more... )

• I went back to school. I only have classes on Tuesdays and Thursdays, which is awesome - and I'll probably be able to do the same thing all next school year, too. I'm taking all English classes: poetry writing, fiction writing, a class on epic poetry, and one on African folklore.
• Trying to find a second job. Also I begged my boss for more hours. ( Read more... )

There's a week left of winter break and I don't want it to end yet. I've been spending it in a rather idyllic way. Spending time with the boy and with friends, reading, lazing around on the internet, listening to music... I definitely don't feel like being tossed back into school life ( Read more... )