The plane leaves today at 3:45 and whisks me away into an adventure, the magnitude of which still hasn't quite hit me yet. I keep telling myself that this is it, this is when I feel it, but I don't know when I'm actually going to have that moment of sudden clarity in which I actually realize that, oh shit, I'm boarding a plane that's going to take ( Read more... )

It was great to be back in Berkeley, and terrible at the same time, because after five days I had to leave. I love the city, and I find out new things about it every time I visit (for example, this time I made my first visit to gourmet ice cream parlor Ici). It'll be good to leave it for a year -- but I have a feeling it'll be just as good to ( Read more... )

I'll be back up in my second hometown from tomorrow through Tuesday, hanging out with friends and getting my last glimpse of the Bay Area for just under a year. Wow, that's a depressing thought. But you know what's not depressing? I definitely just got my visa in the mail today...for LONDON! It's pretty awesome, they put this special stamp thingy ( Read more... )

Oh goodness...I'm finally home, after an eight-hour delay at Heathrow Airport. I've got a lot of unpacking and general kicking-back-into-gear to do, after which I will do things like post photos and actually journal about the trip (and about those eight hours, four of which we spent sitting on the runway in a plane!). As it is, I'm glad to be home ( Read more... )

I went and saw the university where I'll be spending the greater part of this school year, and I think I might be falling in love. Seriously, it's everything I could ask for -- but then again, so is most of this country!

( a few of the many many pictures )

Not much update time, but I have to say -- I never really liked A Midsummer Night's Dream, and then I saw the Globe's traveling company perform it at the Globe last night and it kinda blew my mind. Can we say 1920s theme? A cast of 8 people portraying all 20+ characters through some pretty fantastic costume changes? Aforementioned actors singing, ( Read more... )

Okay. So this whole studying abroad thing, coupled with the whole I've-actually-spent-a-decent-bit-of-time-in-the-UK-and-Italy thing, has started resulting in some fun conversations in which I throw multiple recommendations out into the air for things that people should do when they visit. I figured (mostly for Natalie's sake) that I would finally ( Read more... )

--If I were a professor, I think I'd totally check my profile on RateMyProfessors obsessively at first. And possibly throughout my career ( Read more... )

Thanks to some conversations with Katherine Fosso and Natalie, the Satan story is starting to iron itself out. It probably won't be under 15 pages like it's supposed to be for this class, but seeing as how other people have ignored that requirement and I haven't yet, I think I'm okay as long as I don't go over 20. Granted, that might be a problem, ( Read more... )

I am waiting and ready for it to really be spring, instead of just lulling me into skirts and tank tops and sandals with the sunny day and blossoming cherry-trees outside my window before reminding me with a gust of cold air that I can't say goodbye to sweaters quite yet. I want the feeling of liveliness that comes with the spring--the sunburns I' ( Read more... )