Friday the 13th

Here’s what happened on Friday:
My sister got into her master’s program. I’m so happy for her. Once, Simon Cowell said, “I don’t get this ‘happy for’ thing. How can you be happy for someone… oh, silly Americans!” (That was paraphrasing). Anyway, I thought about that for awhile at the time, and was like, “Simon, maybe [...]

25 Things

It’s been way too long, so I’m jumping back in with this mega-entry in the form of the 25 things meme from Facebook. I got tagged yesterday, but I guess you’ll have to read through to find out why the eff I’m posting it here.
1. Every time I’ve read another person’s “25 things” list, I’ve [...]

Olympic Fever

Ok, my once-every-four-years patriotism should be going strong right now. You know, it’s the Olympics, the period of time where my thinking goes from, “Every country has its merits and it’s impossible to say that one’s the ‘best,’” to “USA! USA! USA!”
And yet, for the first time, I’m feeling a little more open to other [...]

Summer lovin’ had me a blast

In case you haven’t noticed, summer is almost over. At the end of last summer, I wrote a long and sentimental list of everything I would miss about Austin–pancakes from Magnolia, the prevalence of burnt orange, my family, Sonic, etc. Maybe I ordered it differently so that my family came in ahead of Magnolia, but [...]