as usual, my eyes are bigger than my stomach, or in this case, bigger than the amount of hours in a day. if that even makes sense? i got overly excited about my new goals and overly anxious about having too much time on my hands, and now i find myself with absolutely no time on my hands. here is what i am doing this semester ( Read more... )

this is a journal entry i wrote last weekend on a flight from amsterdam to london at the end of a four week course on global cities, two days before i flew from london to new york. it seems relevant now, so i share it with you. terror is too close to home now, no matter where in the world it is--we live in a global environment, what happens in ( Read more... )

here is a list of places i have been/will have been from june 2005 to august 2006 ( Read more... )

so i´m in copenhagen. in a few hours i´ll be in prague. in less than a week i´ll be back in new york, and in about two weeks, i´ll be in oberlin ( Read more... )

i love italy. i always have and i think i always will. i started last weekend in venezia (venice) and witnessed the very beginning of carnevale, this crazy version of mardi gras. then we went to firenze (florence), my favorite italian city, and got memberships to an underground jazz club where locals mix with foreigners in a smooth, almost ( Read more... )

so i'm starting to get the impression that i'm not going to be able to graduate on time ( Read more... )

Do I wish I had gone somewhere more exotic? I read the blogs of friends in far off places, and I am not living the beautiful poem they are. This is London--the city of cities, before New York at least--it's great but nothing new. Is that wrong? I am going through some sort of phase and I don't like it. At first the city seemed inconquerable. ( Read more... )

i'm in london. and despite all the grudging-ness, despite all the irritating exchanges pre-departure, it is wonderful. i have a great flat (except for the fact that there are four of us in one bedroom) in an EXCELLENT neighborhood (south kensington, if you're familiar with it), and so far the people are pretty nice. i'm looking forward to it ( Read more... )

Tomorrow I venture out on my first solitary roadtrip. I'll be going from Kansas City, Missouri to Oberlin, Ohio, in my new Toyota. I'm excited-- we'll see where this takes me. :)

ITUNES ( Read more... )