Recent Blog Posts
counting down...
post a comment | posted Jul 30
Originally posted at Meghan's Blog
In four weeks and one day I will be leaving for Japan. I am so incredibly terrified at the thought. But I've started putting together a separate blog to chronicle my experiences while I'm over there. I don't know what the future of this blog will e...
camping with friends and hiking alone
post a comment | posted Jul 2
Originally posted at Meghan's Blog
I remember going camping with my family as a kid and having those few experiences where we were situated within close proximity of a group of young adult campers who spent their time laughing loudly, getting boozed up, and shouting at one another l...
heavenish
post a comment | posted Jun 26
Originally posted at Meghan's Blog
Another successful recipe out of my favorite cookbook: "Ginger-Macadamia-Coconut-Carrot Cake." It was incredible. And, with the weather having cooled down so much this week, it wasn't a terrible sacrifice to have the oven going, either.
Not-So-Recent Blog Posts
the birds, the bees, and the Australian flame trees
post a comment | posted Jun 17
Originally posted at Meghan's Blog
With the weather being so pleasant lately, I've found a good deal of pleasure and relaxation in spending the afternoons lounging in my parents' back yard with an interesting book in hand. As I read, I am often startled back into my surrounding by t...
Das Bunker, das Gute
post a comment | posted Jun 3
Originally posted at Meghan's Blog
Okay, you got me: I don't speak German. But that doesn't stop me from believing that there are few things in life more enjoyable than taking a good turn on the dance floor to some dirty German techno hit whose only lyric I can confidently say I com...
hey, this is kind of fun!
post a comment | posted May 18
Originally posted at Meghan's Blog
Yesterday was a nice day. I read, wrote in my journal, played the piano, made art, listened to music, played games, spent relatively little time on the internet, and felt overall rather good. But, in spite of all the niceness going on around me, I ...
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1 comment | posted May 13
Originally posted at Meghan's Blog
Tonight I did something I had imagined I wouldn't be able to do until ten years from now: I finished paying off my student loans. Entirely thanks to a wholly unanticipated and incredibly generous gift, the burden of debt was prematurely lifted from...
the pushover
post a comment | posted May 1
Originally posted at Meghan's Blog
This morning the vice principle at the San Diego Academy called to ask if I could sub for the same second grade class I subbed for on Friday. I told her I didn't feel well.Tonight she called me again, explaining that their second grade teacher was ...
a tale of 22 2nd-graders and a 22-year-old substitute teacher without the capacity to control them
1 comment | posted Apr 29
Originally posted at Meghan's Blog
A little girl named Cielo sits on a chair in the front of a classroom, explaining to twenty-one of her peers that the little stuffed teddy bear on her lap is her fourteenth favorite toy. Though my mind is fettered with the anxiety of a long, misera...
peanut butter pie and the pursuit of paid work
post a comment | posted Apr 24
Originally posted at Meghan's Blog
It quickly closes in on three months since I packed up my life in Azusa and moved down to my city of origin--San Diego--and the search for secure employment has begun to look, admittedly, rather bleak. Each week I send out perhaps five or so r