The last time I was preparing to travel to the UK (the most glorious of trips, incidentally), I had my suitcase open on my apartment floor for about a week or two before I left, wandering around in circles whenever I was home and throwing things into a pile I'd sort later. Oh, this! Oh, this …
Some weird thing called getting my life together
To nobody's great surprise (except my own a little bit), I received my couriered passport yesterday morning, not with a tremendously douchey stamp, but with my UK visa. Five years. Multiple entries. Ancestry, working. My name correct, my photo correct, my date of birth correct. No issues to be found. I can't stop looking at …
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result?! / GOODBYES (pt. 2)
It's been a week, to say the very (very, very, very) least. On Sunday night, I had a stress dream. In it, I received a DHL envelope from the UK Border Agency. I cautiously opened it, and found my passport, not with a visa but with a simple stamp. "You don't deserve to live in …
progress, progress, progress…! and GOODBYES (pt. 1)
... it's been an overwhelming week-and-a-bit? Imagine this: you're moving away. You've been teetering at the edge of realization for the past few months, almost having it sink in now and then, aaaand... nope. And you've convinced yourself time and time again that, no, sabotaging all the glorious things you have in the place you've …
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(sleep deprivation and beer)
There's this increasing carelessness that's been hitting me more and more with every passing day, every moment propelling me towards my goal. I was born in this city. I tend toward such a defeatist attitude at times (I can't even proportion properly, around so long and a mystery to myself even still), but I can't …
C’mon c’mon c’mon…!
The waiting makes you crazy. Crazy, and moody, and prone to crying jags. Because you just keep thinking about the things you're about to lose, and how many things could go wrong along the way. "What will I do if I apply for the visa and get declined?" I've wondered aloud once or twice. Because, …
Design: Blog blog blog!
I mentioned yesterday how I used to know how to do HTML but I've forgotten...! but then I played around with things after giving WordPress all sorts of money, and now I remember. Mainly I remember that it was always just me poking and prodding at things until they turned out the way I wanted …
Introductory
I'm not sure I remember how to blog. Funny how these things slip away. Eight or nine years of constantly posting on LiveJournal, documenting all my greatest and most embarrassing moments in remarkable detail, letting everyone know just how excited I was about every last moment. Two major crushes (two!) documented from beginning to end, …
Leslie Ewing-Burgesse* 