i got home from the evening's dinner party with my russian classmates to read that alexander solzhenitsyn died today in russia.

i am so sorry to hear that. he was an amazing author, a great man, and he had stories yet to tell.

sigh. last time i saw general hospital, roughly two weeks ago, they were at nikolas' house for the ball. so today i catch it, note that we're still at the ball, and think how little changes day-to-day on a soap. except then i realize that emily is dead, which is more than a little change. i really liked emily and had no idea they were killing her ( Read more... )

happy birthday to kate as well!! i hope that you have a great day....

school apparently has me flustered. today was my first rehearsal for the *five minute* scene that i'm in, and i think it's taking too much out of me...

i feel like a bit of a rotten friend, as i'd entirely forgotten that your birthday was coming up until your letter arrived (which was a nice surprise, btw). of course, i'm so busy lately that i only realized a couple days ago that i'd be turning 25 myself in in less than a month ( Read more... )

i received in the mail today a rather thick packet from villanova. expecting it to be general information (i'm still waiting for my online access stuff and to register for my classes), i opened it to find a letter from the professor of my dramaturgy class with three photocopied plays and a 'to buy' list. also included was the note that he strongly ( Read more... )

as i was standing in the kitchen with daniel tonight i noticed the phone was showing a message, which is odd for our house phone because no one ever calls it. we had a message from usaa's credit card fraud line, alerting us to possible fraudulent charges on our account (they didn't specify which of our two usaa accounts), with a 24 hour phone ( Read more... )

we're flying to washington state today after work, via an extremely close layover in salt lake city. assuming we don't miss our flight, we'll see my parents tonight in seattle. otherwise we'll be spending the night at the salt lake airport ( Read more... )

we're seeing brecht's life of galileo at the wilma tonight. i like the play and have been wanting to see something at the wilma since we moved here, and it somehow showed up on the half priced list for the weekend (even at half price, tickets for two cost nearly $60). as far as i can remember, this is the first time this theatre has shown up on the ( Read more... )

last month we received the normal monthly phone bill, and discovered that verizon had tacked on a $2 "shortfall charge" for not using any long distance minutes. this is a free pay-per-use feature of our budget phone plan, and there had never been a fee before (also in the signup letter there was a sentence about how they have no hidden fees and it ( Read more... )

we had a great time at shenandoah national park. daniel and i went on a 5 mile hike both friday and saturday, the first day to dark hollow falls and then to rose river falls, and the second day to the south river falls. the thing about the waterfall hikes at this park is that you walk downhill for the first half to get to the waterfall, and then it ( Read more... )