La Vie En Rose for 2006 September 10

For those who care to see them, pictures of my recent trip can be viewed here. I made an abridged photo album of 300 pictures (all that fits into one yahoo!photos album) and it was really hard to narrow it down to just the best ones. I took over 3 times that many pictures myself, which is not to mention all the pictures taken by others. And I even made sure they were in the right order and added titles to all of them and descriptions to most. *whew* I just did a slideshow view and it took 23 minutes... but considering it took me two months to take all of them, well... Anyway, if you're interested.

Man, I can't WAIT to go travelling again. I was just looking at my countries visited map (which I can't get to show up right here for some reason) and thinking of all the places I've yet to go, that I'm so longing to, and my new backpack has only been used once, longs to be used again, plus I have been thinking and thinking and THINKING about packing and really want to go on a long trip & really get it right, to live on bare essentials and be free as the wind, and take trains everywhere and taste that travel air, there's really nothing like it. *sigh*

The optimistic me says if I get a good scholarship I'll be able to spent the few months between finishing my MA and starting my Phd bopping about Eastern Europe. If not, well... we'll see I guess.