American Life

Zzzz… zzz… zzz… Zzz… zz–wha–? What? Is it summer already? – I’m alive. And hopefully back for real this time. :D  Read More →

I am alive! I am not dead! Can anyone hear me? I’m here! *waves frantically from underneath a mountain of school work* The spring semester is rapidly coming to an end, and unfortunately my student visa is still hanging by a thread. I’d be lying if I claimed to always be positive about the outcome of this situation, but I’m... [Read more...]

I wish I had something more interesting to blog about, but unfortunately I don’t! The past few days (hell, weeks) have been extremely uneventful, and when you’re living in a town as tiny as this, the prospects of finding something interesting to do (much less blog about) are pretty slim. I promised myself that when I started this... [Read more...]

The other day I came to a startling realization: I surround myself with boys! I guess if you want to be really technical about it, they’re men – but honestly, they can be such boys sometimes that I feel I can safely use the expression. I’ve never lived with all boys before! I didn’t mean to, either, it just sorta ended... [Read more...]

The first time my parents took me to a musical, I can’t have been much older than 6 or 7. And it wasn’t a very frequent experience, as going to the theater was expensive. But we’d go now and then and see plays like Annie or Oliver! and I’d immediately memorize all the songs. I attribute a lot of my love for singing... [Read more...]