"Love doesn't just sit there like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new."

this weekend i will always remember, for so many different things:

t&d's fine dining establishment, a joke never to be forgotten (we make sure of this by repeating it every five to ten minutes)

the majestic airbed

jackie's bursts of laughter, so contagious even strangers smile

the nice indian man with an indian donkey

chinatown... chinatown.

eurasian babies

maxamillian

friendships rising like dough; remade and reformed.... perfect.

bored in the hotel room, nothing to do!

my younger years:

sophomore - my friends
Originally uploaded by robinmc20

this weekend my dear friend Omar (third from the right) is visiting. he is my best friend from the university of michigan - we have always been there for each other, and I can't wait to show him my home in southern california!

tonight we are driving to see my sister in San Francisco - a six to eight hour ride, depending on how many candy stops I make. poor oms, lucky me ;)

More when we return!

guess who i am

Hint: For the past three weekends I've been cooped up in a Mariott hotel suite with eight rambunctious strangers.

A) Kate Moss B)insert witty choice c) me! check it out:
























Being in the same class as Pete was difficult. As you all know I have a slight competitive streak inherited from... well, both mother and father. I went a bit crazy with my three page lesson plans, overly decorated poster boards, rapid fire note taking, etc. But I did earn the top-student place! (although there were only ten student students in all) I was feeling like the high priestess of TEFL in the car on the way home - a know it all, bragging, pompous high priestess - and Pete brought me down to reality. Thank God for Pete and his good old fashioned honesty.

So now I am taking that competitive zeal and putting it towards finding myself a job. Although I really love the idea of teaching in Argentina, je je je, I don't really love subsisting on 300 US dollars a month.


I have devised this short list of possible places, let me know what you think:

• Japan
  
• Malaysia
  
• South Korea
  
• 
  
• Dubai
  
• Egypt
  
• 
  
• Spain
  
• France
  
• Hungary
  
• Norway
  
• Holland
  

Happy Valentine's....

i'm visiting this lil' girl this weekend!

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my first blog entry! So very California, so very cliché. But blogging (verb??) is a good-as-any way of keeping in touch with sisters, parents, relatives, college friends, high school friends, random acquaintances, creepy stalkers, internet prowlers... I could go on. But I won't. Might as well do SOMEthing at work, am I right? Welcome.