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I’m going to re-cap my year, because I’ve been soooooo lazy about blogging. January: The Sleepy Month At first I thought it was jet lag, because I’d just returned from a trip to Thailand with my brother Ben. I slept during the nights and took three or four naps during the days. I didn’t go…

I like to meander through beautiful places alone. I didn’t mind that my brother Matt had to work while I was visiting him in Washington DC, because Washington DC has many beautiful and free things to see. I set off on a muggy morning and meandered up the shady side of the street to the…

First stop: Ohio. I spent six hours in the Denver airport on a layover, browsing the internet, reading the e-books I borrowed from the library, and trying to overhear people’s conversations. When the older lady next to me declared to her daughter that the grandchildren didn’t need any more gifts because “you already got them…

I get itchy feet if I stay in one place for too long. I’m also trying to get through college debt-free, and I have an income based almost solely on odd jobs. I’m sure you can guess how well that works out. But. I’m a firm believer in the idea that if you pinch your…

After an extremely stressful last-few weeks of term, which was complicated by a weekend trip to Indiana for a cousin’s wedding, I am 100% ready for summer.  I figured I would get a few weeks of blissful nothingness where I would do nothing but read books and have good conversations. Alas, my sister Amy and…

“People are nervous around you,” my friend Jonas told me once. “What do you mean?” I asked, even though I kinda already knew. “Did you notice how when you walked into the room, everyone got silent? It’s not because you’re a girl.” “Is it because people are afraid of offending me? Because really, I don’t…

I am just about too tired to think. So forgive me if this post is semi-incoherent. I had friends over this morning, went to class in the early afternoon, and then spent the rest of the day with my friend Esta. I had a bunch of post ideas bouncing around in my head, but what…

…It’s not because I don’t like putting people in boxes. I love putting people in boxes. I do it all the time. No. I hate personality tests because they put people in two-dimensional boxes instead of three-dimensional boxes. You are either introverted, extroverted, or somewhere in the middle. You are either rational, emotional, or somewhere…

The world feels eerily apocalyptic to me. Everything happened in one long weekend. A wedding of a dear friend. Visiting a cousin in the hospital after a major surgery. Another dear friend collapsing suddenly from diabetes and spending days in the ICU. The Pacific Northwest burning and burning, filling the skies with a melancholy haze.…