Despite having three serious finals next week (one of them being cumulative and given by the professor who I want to impress the most), I'm feeling pretty good about this semester ( Read more... )

After babysitting for a slew of families over the course of the past nine years (for real, my first job was taking care of three kids when I was 12), I still get really uncomfortable after the little ones have gone to bed and I'm hanging on the couch. I'm never comfortable eating the families food and the remote control for the TV is always ( Read more... )

My first pot of corn chowder of the season is simmering on the stove. It is my favorite soup of all time ( Read more... )

Is this midterm week? If so, I think I missed something ( Read more... )

I'm going to California (definitely SF and Davis, possibly LA) tomorrow morning until the 11th. Spencer's grandma is turning 90. There is a hot tub about 5 steps from the bed I get to sleep in. We can ride bikes on real bike paths on the side of the road! Dolores Park! Maybe I'll get to see where Spencer went to college and decided not to become a ( Read more... )

On Wednesday my Grammie Dowd had brain surgery. She had a sinus infection that spread to the fluid surrounding her brain. She's most upset right now because they had to shave her half head. My uncles and I offered to shave ours too, but she said she couldn't stand to have us look "so foolish". So I still have hair ( Read more... )

California was wonderful. Though it was my third visit, this time around I hours to travel around and see almost everthing I wanted to in addition to some random sights like grounds of Lucas Arts and endless bowls of pea soup. I ate at Millenium and I couldn't believe my tastebuds. The cheesecake was the only thing that was closest to being sorta ( ( Read more... )

Um, hi ( Read more... )

This is how I'm spending the last part of my 3rd semester of college.


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Whew. My life is busy! I am happy ( Read more... )