[Warning: This is a long post. Feel free to skim.] It's no secret I dislike doing things on my own. While I enjoy some time hanging with myself, I also get bored and restless easily. Too easily. And sometimes that makes me reluctant to push myself outside of my tightly-knit comfort blanket. This can include an …
Category: My Life
It was infatuation at first palace
I planned a short trip to Vienna last week for two key reasons: It was close. Only four hours by budget bus. Fifteen euros each way! Yelp was having a Halloween party. As it turned out, Vienna stunned and trapped me. I'm not sure I've ever visited a friendlier city. I'm not exaggerating when I say …
Munich vs. Berlin
Munich I visited Munich for the third time in mid-September with one of my new friends, Amy. We left right after class on Friday and arrived back in Prague around 1 a.m. on Monday thanks to a delayed FlixBus (the European-version of Megabus). My other two visits were *surprise* in 2010 while studying abroad. The first …
Happy fall!
Summer transformed into fall overnight this past weekend. I went from feeling like a disgusting excuse of an overheated human to an ice cube. It's safe to say I'll be incessantly cold until April. It's just how it is every year without fail. This week has had its share of highs and lows. I had …
Weekend extension, please
I'm often paralyzed by indecision. Like, for one: Why did it take me six years to enroll in this ridiculously incredible certification course? Now that I'm here, my mind is in a million places all at once...all the time. Should I stay here after the course? Should I try to move to Italy or Austria? …
Kathleen Duffy 