i've been traveling a lot for work. like every week. no where too exciting; san antonio and laredo and houston and that one time in beaufort south carolina, which was cool ( Read more... )

i haven't updated in a while! updating LJ these days feels a little like shouting into a void. we should really just all get twitter accounts, right? formspring? foursquare? i don't know anymore. the other night somebody said something about how myspace is an internet ghost town now, that seemed astute at the time. it was friday. friday night was ( Read more... )

new orleans trip was so much fun. we danced in the street more times than i can remember. the city is so different, and charming, and interesting. i can see why christy and christian want to go back there ( Read more... )

watched the english patient last night. thheeee eeengggliiishhhh paaatttiiieeeent OMG. is there a sexier, more devastating movie? i don't think so.

ommgggggg

i am in heat.

i'm in brownsville on a BUSINESS TRIP OMG BIG GIRL RIGHT HERE. observing this grant program at high school, interviewing teachers, it is pretty sweet. i like brownsville. i flew into harlingen yesterday night, drove to south padre island and hung out in the ocean for a while, and have spent the part of today which was not at lopez high driving ( Read more... )

OMG RAGEY PMS AT WORK. my last three weeks at this company, and my boss, while fun and cool, is still just as terrible at giving me directions as ever, and in my current hormone-flooded testy state it is DRIVING ME CRAZY. i just wanna be at home, relaxing barefoot in my lovely house, cleaning off my desk, cuddling the magician, cooking, reading, ( Read more... )

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when i was fourteen or fifteen, one of my aunts gave me a coffee mug with a long slender seventeen-type-illustration of a woman wearing glasses reading a book. the mug said "reading girl." apparently there is a series of mug with the different kinds of girls you can be, and i am a "reading girl." jon thinks this mug is hilarious and every time ( Read more... )

holeeee shit i just spend $80 overnight shipping a package to connecticut so that it would get there before sarah flies to cameroon on sunday. it's not every day you get the chance to send stuff to your homestay mom in yaounde, so i just sucked it up and paid the $80. let this be a lesson to you, self: stop procrastinating. i sent her necklaces ( Read more... )

this summer, you guys, is going to be so, so rad. i'm visiting my sister in san francisco in three weeks (no, she still lives in san diego, but we decided to meet for a weekend in san francisco for a change. one of her good friends moved up there to be the sales VP for netflix and thus is totally loaded and lives on one whole floor of an old ( Read more... )