Have you ever been faced with such a huge, daunting list of things to do? And not just simple errands like “Drop book off at library,” or reminders like “Student loan payment due.” Sometimes I think I just love making lists. And they keep growing and growing, and I end up sitting on the floor [...]

It’s rather surreal: I have been living in Costa Rica for 24 days now. That’s 3 weeks without a cell phone. And essentially TV, since the televisions in my host family’s house are located in rather inconvenient places for me (my parents’ room and my brother’s ‘lair,’ as I like to call it). On the [...]

So I’m in a bit of a bad mood. That isn’t to say, necessarily, that I’m completely unhappy, but a chain of rather unfortunate events have been hampering me lately. Where to begin? For starters, I finally took my Epson Stylus NX415 printer out of its box. I had bought it in July, thinking it [...]

Oh, what a flurry of activity the past couple of weeks have been. I don’t even know where to start recounting them. The most pressing matter at the moment is my stupid laptop. Something has gone awry; its CPU Usage has been fluctuating from 4% to 97% constantly, and it is starting to seriously piss [...]