I Hope This Old Train Breaks Down...

I got a sketchpad and am fooling around on it, practicing sketching motions and emotions. Motions are easy, emotions are hard. So far, this ...

I miss drawing. I think this Christmas, I'm going to buy Geoff and myself some charcoal and drawing pad, so that we can be drawing hippi...

During the summer, when I was away from Geoff for 5 weeks, I thought about writing down some things that I loved about Geoff that even our f...

Apparently the best barista in the world is Salvadoran and works at the local coffee chain that we frequent. I guess I shouldn't have m...

Today's the 1461st day that Geoff and I have been officially dating. :) (That includes a leap day somewhere.) Since it's easier to c...

I turn 28 today. :) It feels brilliant to be this old, because I am doing exactly what I want to do (and I had thought that it would take ye...

Oh, so here's a funny thing that happened in Peru that I forgot to relay: At some point, we were hanging out at Machu Picchu and the gui...

Before I decided to try this teaching-abroad thing, I used to work at a really great 6th-through-12th-grade public school that believes in t...

I was reminded yesterday of something silly that had happened in Peru, and I thought I'd jot it down for future reference. It goes to il...

Tech Tangent: I fiddled a bit with iFrames this morning, in trying to embed a java applet directly into my blog. It worked (functionally), e...

I am back home!! But, not for long. We just returned from our Peruvian trip yesterday (after some logistical snafoos), and we will be leavin...

Pretty momentous: Yesterday, after Geoff's morning run, he came back in and said nonchalantly while laying out his towel for doing situp...

In the interest of taking motion-blurred pictures of rotating objects (a la this , this , this , this , or this ), I did some mini-research ...

Geoff and I are quickly approaching the end of our fourth year of being together! :) September 2010 will be that next milestone. I could not...

Geoff and I have been watching a lot of movies, because he has recently cut back (ie. temporarily stopped) drinking, in hopes of getting bac...

Geoff and I celebrated our third-year anniversary this weekend. :) It was kind of a big deal, since I think we had hit a few big milestones ...

Last night, I saw a big pink iguana dart across our bathroom after it had entered through the window. I was freaked out! Geoff had to grab o...

We had our goodbye party in Geoff's parents' garden on Saturday, and it was a blast! The weather was beautiful, even though it had b...

It is unfathomable that I will be moving out of my apartment and getting rid of all of my stuff in the next 30 days! I think that time will ...

We finally have a projected date of departure: July 15! --Or at least, that is when I will be leaving; hopefully Geoff will be able to book...