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narcissism + gratitude = blog?

maybe i should actually write something............life has been intense lately.

good intense, bad intense, intense-intense, sleep-losing intense, sleep-not-happening-in-favor-of-more-fun-things intense, and generally extreme. but not boring. never, ever boring. thank goodness!

first of all, right before i left for germany, i lost the apartment i had spent the previous two weeks working on, hoping to move in soon. i was totally caught off guard by how shocking and difficult the whole thing was. like, melodramatically mourning some sort of dream for what i hoped my life would become in that little space. and feeling sorta silly for being so very sad about it. it was sort of overwhelming. i didn't know how to write about it.

but! and isn't there always a but?

but instead of staying in the stadt and mourning my twenty-something dreams, i got to go to germany and feel like a real singer for the second time this year! and the timing couldn't have been better. not only was i forced to focus on something else, but i got to go be around such an intense group of singers that i remembered why i moved here in the first place. because quitting has never been an option, because it's like breathing, because it's somehow a part of why we're here. oh yeah!!! and as someone who's not in an organized educational situation, it is too easy to forget that.

so i'm super grateful, for that crazy, cushy, cozy, extreme, intense week in germany...especially these guys.

"pretzels are stupid!"

geek chic.

thank you bridget for sending this to me today, and therefore getting me off the hook for writing about anything. i appreciate this very much today.

photo diary: mexican night!!!

puppies, people we love, enchiladas, margaritas, and faye dunaway. does it get any better than this?

kitchen mischief.

ceviche!
why am i dressed like a waitress?

cube o' rice

let's eat!

my mom's enchiladas = get excited!

post-dinner puppies are a must.

lucy powderpuff kisses

cuteness abounds, with christina's 10-second nap

balcony serenade

oh wien, city that i love. for every time you make me absolutely furious (helloooo subways that pull away right as i get to the platform!), you also make me laugh and calm me down. on a hectic day in the middle of 'city center'. a month-long acapella festival, singing from various balconies downtown? i suppose i'll forgive you for that subway business.

ah, questo core!

because it's just so freakin' holy that not being able to do it right is playing games with my head.

remember how i said that singing shows you everything about yourself? ...sigh...this is what i meant.