there’s always this moment when i’m on iv antibiotics when i suddenly realize i can breathe again.
i totally just got there.
hooray!
more soon. swears.
[do you know who created this image? hit me up so i can give it an attribution.]
i don’t want you to get too jealous, but i am totally heading to europe today.
i’ll be traveling with some work colleagues, who have also become some of my best friends in atlanta. it should probably come as no surprise that i slept for maybe an hour last night.
we’ll be spending a few days here:
and then we’re going here:
and then we’re going here:
but before any of it, we have just enough time during a layover to go HERE, where i will surely lose my mind:
hopefully my next post will be filled with my own pretty photos of vienna, székesfehérvár, and budapest and not ones i stole from the internet.
p.s. the title of this blog post is how to say ‘bon voyage’ in german, then hungarian.
what completely and utterly blows your mind? want to know what blows mine?
this:
space.
outer. freaking. space.
my relationship with science can, at best, be described as complicated. i love it. i find it fascinating. i want to learn all kinds of science-y things all the time.
there’s just one tiny problem.
i can’t remember science. it doesn’t stick in my brain AT ALL. like, it’s hard for me to describe how terrible i am at remembering science because i can’t even remember enough to give you an example.
this may or may not contribute to the fact that, outer space? it blows my mind. hard.
it’s infinite, and pretty, and always has major drama. like explosions and black holes.
usually when i think about space i get a headache. and sometimes when i think about the enormity and complexity of space i get all anxious when i remember that in the grand scheme of things, we’re essentially the size of a microscopic speck of dust ON another microscopic speck of dust. mind blown.
fun story:
one evening a few years ago i was eating dinner with a horrible ex-boyfriend, trying very hard to explain how much space blows my mind. and in between bites of pizza, i said,
“hey wouldn’t it be absolutely insane if there was essentially another planet just like earth somewhere out there except the people on it were either way behind or way ahead of us in terms of evolution and that caused all kinds of crazy problems?”
and he said,
“so, i guess you’ve never seen star trek.”
you guys. if only i had been born about fifty years ago. I COULD HAVE INVENTED STAR TREK.
image 1: no big deal, just an interior view of the milky way / image 2: a star died and this is what’s left.
[image credits: NASA]
glen hansard captured my heart the moment i heard him sing “say it to me now” during the opening credits of once.
the man has a way with words, and he also does this really unbelievable thing where he sings every emotion into every song every.single.time. he sings it. i don’t know how he does it or how he has any energy left or anything else to feel, but he does, and it’s why i love him. also he’s pretty darn cute.
the above is a tiny desk concert he did for npr last summer.
p.s. laura marling’s tiny desk concert. she’s my favorite girl-singer.
hey want to know what’s fun?
running a series of updates on your website.
want to know what’s even more fun than that?
NOT BACKING EVERYTHING UP BEFOREHAND.
so much fun all up in here.
90% of my blog archives have been recovered. basically everything pre-2011. eventually i’ll get those posts formatted and looking all matchy-matchy with this new blog. which i have every intention of backing up on a very, very regular basis. fool me once, system updates.
on to things way more interesting than my lost blog posts, which would be my new blog posts.
per usual, i will be writing about my favorite writing subject – that damn disease, cystic fibrosis.
per not usual, i will also be posting about things i actually enjoy more than cystic fibrosis.
things i’m thinking, feeling, loving, hating, and so on and so forth. i find myself composing blog posts in my head all the time. in the shower, while i drive to work, during my yoga classes… and they just live in my head, or they disappear into thin air, and maybe when i sit down to write they’ll turn into total crap, but i’m going to give it a go. starting next post.
because right now, i’m watching a new tv show called monday mornings. you know i can’t resist a good medical drama.
(p.s. if you happen to be slightly creepy and have copies of any of my (very few) most recent blog posts, i will be forever indebted to you. and i will send you a gift. a real one.)
photo credit: confetti system. i want one in every color of the rainbow.
hi all. as you may or may not have noticed, shit sort of hit the fan here at leannology. oops?
sorry for the mess, but i am working as quickly as i can to rebuild the site and get things back to normal very, very soon.
in the meantime, here’s a list of things i’m currently loving on the internet. maybe they’ll fill the leannology void in your life until i get things back to awesome:
- XYLOPHONE!!
- back to the future photo project
- 55 inspirational quotes on desire and making it happen
- basically everything on this website