Emily Churchill
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Walking outside this week was like walking into a sauna. The air was sticky, but in a way pleasantly humid after the endless months I spent inside this winter.
APR 9
I don’t have the luxury of getting to see my extended family very often since we are spread over a vast swath of the U.S.
MAR 26
There’s something oddly comforting about studying in a cubicle.
Perhaps these are just the crazed ramblings of someone who has been inside looking at book pages for too long, but I haven’t been able to shake this thought for a few weeks now.
What once was a sad, drudging plod to Clemons has become a ritual.
MAR 5
Every once in a while I like to delude myself into thinking that I’m classy. In my imagination, I’m the type that wakes up early, takes a cup of coffee to the porch to read the paper while petting my cat.
FEB 19
I’ve come to terms with having a complete mental breakdown roughly three times a semester. It’s practically a ritual now, where everything suddenly piles up and engulfs me, dragging me to the bottom of a lake of self-pity.
To the general annoyance of my friends and neighbors, I find myself holed up in my room, eating tubs of raw cookie dough and watching reruns of television shows, attempting to convince myself that by not doing anything, I am, in fact, helping myself.
FEB 5
I recently read a quote by the intrepid explorer Richard Francis Burton that struck me: “One of the gladdest moments of human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands.
JAN 23
Ah, that faint smell in the air. That hard edge on the corner of your mind. That growing feeling pushing down on you when you sit.
DEC 4
I’ve never really been a birthday person.
In the past, the event has been riddled with enough anxiety to make it generally unpleasant.
NOV 7
Whoever came up with the idea of the “Things to Do Before We Graduate” list needs to be given a hug.
Really, the idea is complete genius.
OCT 24
I came home for break, exam-weary and craving home-cooked food, desiring nothing more than to lie on my back while drooling in the general direction of the TV.
OCT 10
Until two weeks ago, I had been a vegetarian for about six years. Beyond that, I had never eaten seafood — not even before I became a vegetarian.
If you had asked me last year, I would have told you that I didn’t have any plans of quitting vegetarianism, thank you very much.
SEP 26
Growing up, I considered myself a regular tomboy. Looking back, I suppose this was mostly attributable to the one miserable afternoon I spent watching NASCAR with my dad and the plethora of worn jerseys passed down from my cousin.
With this warped self-image came a lot of false confidence in areas that I cannot claim to have any real knowledge.
SEP 12
It’s unfortunately easy to lose faith in humanity.
Everything’s going alright for a while until, suddenly, one event begins a downward spiral that usually ends with me hating everyone and everything.
AUG 29
We all have to plan forthe future. Some of usare optimistic about it, others more subdued. Some are the kinds of people who have been planning since day one: girls who started searching for their wedding dresses in elementary school, guys who have been researching the perfect car they'll buy as soon as they land their first well-paying job.
APR 4
Ididn't have high hopes forcoming to school here.I thought I could get a good education at a fairly well-known school close to home and be out in four years.
MAR 21
Entering Charlottesville is, in some ways, likewalking into a fairy tale. Driving into the city is like stepping through the wardrobe into Narnia, like being whipped up by a tornado and being gracefully deposited into Munchkinland, like falling down the rabbit hole.
FEB 29
For Valentine's Day, my hallmates and I reminisced about our past flings and crushes. Everyone had their own stories, which caused a great deal of laughter and teasing, but I sensed a common theme running throughout.
It's been a long time since we started talking about our love life in elementary school, so you might think we would have matured slightly.
FEB 15
"I am a College Student Now, and I Know Everything." We've all seen it, most upperclassmen have even experienced it themselves and I am beginning to notice the growing trend among my fellow first years.
FEB 1
My roommate, Tori, and I knew each other before we got to U.Va. We weren't best friends, but we knew we got along well enough to not pull each other's hair out and bicker about whose shirt was on whose side of the room.
We got past the initial likes and dislikes pretty quickly and settled into a routine.
JAN 18
I have recently come to the realization that I am a middle-aged woman.
Actually, let me rephrase that.
I may look on the outside like any other college kid, but I have been aware for some time that my manners and interests coincide heavily with those of women who drive minivans.
NOV 16
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I’ve never really been a birthday person.
In the past, the event has been riddled with enough anxiety to make it generally unpleasant.
NOV 12
It’s time. Officially.
I know I recently said the day after Halloween meant it was Christmas season.
NOV 4
Whoever came up with the idea of the “Things to Do Before We Graduate” list needs to be given a hug.
Really, the idea is complete genius.
OCT 24
This afternoon I had the exquisite experience of accompanying my parents and boyfriend to a wine tasting event in my area.
OCT 8
Until two weeks ago, I had been a vegetarian for about six years. Beyond that, I had never eaten seafood — not even before I became a vegetarian.
If you had asked me last year, I would have told you that I didn’t have any plans of quitting vegetarianism, thank you very much.
SEP 26
On one of those nearly- fall days that are so beautiful that you have to resist the temptation to break into jolly show tunes, my family drove up and took my boyfriend and I to Carter Mountain to get those beginning- of- the- season fruits.
SEP 22
Growing up, I considered myself a regular tomboy. Looking back, I suppose this was mostly attributable to the one miserable afternoon I spent watching NASCAR with my dad and the plethora of worn jerseys passed down from my cousin.
With this warped self-image came a lot of false confidence in areas that I cannot claim to have any real knowledge.
SEP 14
It’s unfortunately easy to lose faith in humanity.
Everything’s going alright for a while until, suddenly, one event begins a downward spiral that usually ends with me hating everyone and everything.
SEP 3
Moving in has always been a time of great stress for me. I over- think things, I pack and repack until my boxes and suitcases weep and beg for mercy, I have panic attacks over whether people are going to make fun of me for how much I bring.
SEP 3
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