Day 2, part 1: Good thing the whole car rental thing worked out after all. September 11, 2011

(I’m back!  It has been in my Gmail Tasks to write the second post of my trip, which now occurred a good 2.5 months ago, for about 2 months.  I kept changing the due date, and finally relegated it to “No due date,” and now I’m pretty much only doing this so I can get [...]

Day 1: The Story of the Girl Who Drove Around Costa Rica Without a License, and other Terrifying Tales of Idiocy July 21, 2011

To say that I planned my trip to Costa Rica is a bit of an overstatement.  Yes, we bought our tickets ahead of time…after deciding on Costa Rica for some unknown reason.  Part of it for me was that my boyfriend was in the middle of a 6 week trip through South America with his [...]

Hello, am I still in your feed reader? July 6, 2011

So let me dispense with preamble and tell you that I am now a 3rd year medical student (the interesting kind); I took a whirlwind crazy awesome trip to Costa Rica last week and figured it was a great excuse to bully myself back into blogging; my boyfriend of 4.5 years is moving to Los [...]

Summer rules! June 28, 2010

My friend’s blog! It’s the BEST! Summer Rules!

This is all wrong. June 27, 2010

Not like we didn’t know this was going to happen, but MAN! The best part of the Ramona books was how ordinary and relatable (in the BEST way) she and her family were. She smashed an egg on her forehead – and it was raw! She tried to get her dad to quit smoking (NOSMO [...]

A really dumb thing I did yesterday June 25, 2010

Ha.  This story actually begins a year ago yesterday, and should be subtitled “Why I Should Never Be Allowed to Own Expensive Things.”  As readers may recall, I was robbed about a year ago right after moving to Hartford.  The thief made off with my purse which contained a whole bunch of expensive stuff that [...]

The Rainstorm June 7, 2010

One year ago today, Ryan and I moved to Hartford.  This year went by so quickly and so achingly slowly at the same time – the old cliche.  I wrote this thing for school, back in April, and it seems appropriate to put it here, today: April was holding back.  Aside from a teasing 3 [...]

Hello again. December 31, 2009

Yeah, so I started medical school on August 20, and my last blog post was on August 20.  Hmmm. I don’t make New Year’s resolutions.  To me, they’re nothing more than ways of creating stress by imposing artificial milestones or time frames.  Someone I know who went through AA told me that they’re actually encouraged [...]

Vel vien (one more) August 20, 2009

Thanks for the comments and messages about the last song.  In Latvian we say “Liels paldies!” which means “Big thank you!”  Can you tell I love singing it? Here’s one more that I recorded last night, entitled “It Ka Briedis.”  Another one from my childhood, another one that I wish I had the sheet music [...]

Some early evening Latvian singing August 19, 2009

Recently, spurred by increased curiosity at what my crazy awesome Macbook can actually do, as well as severe Maza Nometne nostalgia and missing my annual trip to Alksnitisville, I recorded myself singing one of my favorite old Latvian songs in two-part harmony.  It’s not very clean in terms of recording, as I only did a [...]