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ABE CALLED! :D

so as an excercize in self restraint and in the interest of the 17 pages left to write in the thesis, i will not talk about the doves that swoop through the 163rd street subway stop, or how i was not multi-lingual enough by far to fit in yesterday, or the subtler elements of water polo learned from cornell team alumni at yesterday's NYU tournament ( Read more... )

Many, I think, never figure out how to handle the emptiness that comes when the rush of achievement fades away, or the loneliness - the sense of invisibility - when no one is there to hand out yet another “A.” The fact is: when you are narrowly programmed to achieve, you are like a windup toy with only one movement in its repertoire. You’re fine ( Read more... )

...but it doesn't kick half as much ass in english.

we live with you

we walk with you

we dream with you

and when you died, we tried not to die with you

why

however did you die so far from the water

and the Nile fills your hands?

(for Nasser)

So the Ambassador/Dean thinks that I'm ( Read more... )

the new york times should have a sleeve for me to tug:

can we have an article like this every day? ( loss of faith )

So Brenna comes up to me at work today and asks me to go along to the launch of the Whitehead journal with her and the other Journal staff and some big panel of diplomats and our faculty at UNA-USA at 53rd and Lexington after work Thursday. Maybe I'm her date because she couldn't find a boy? I didn't even know this was happening. And after the ( Read more... )

I met Faiz Al-Aqari! I think this will be the IPE project. something about it. Iraqi refugees in Jordan.

http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=297284&area=/insight/insight__international/

Best answer yet: "the academic discipline that studies the results of the creative destruction of modern society."

i hate writing about myself this way. "detail past efforts, future plans, and individual philosophy blah blah blah."

because while i'm sincere and have been in building this ... list ... I feel so very manufactured when trying to sell it as such. also, i talk about my family too much and leave it until the verylastsecond. oh well.