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snapshot
From my treehouse, I see a young man with soft brown hair curling around his ears, on a bicycle travelling up the street with an enormous silver cello case on his back (or maybe it was a bass - the man in question was quite tall). His helmet was also silver, as was his bike, and his instrument case hardly moved as he rode up the hill ( Read more... ) -
Back to School
Back at Hopkins, in my first two years I did as much side research on human sexuality and gender identity as I did problem sets for my engineering classes. In my second two years, I took some sort of visual art class every semester, so I would have homework that felt like screwing off.
For the first time in my life, I have no electives, but my ( Read more... ) -
Independence Day
This is the day when the rest of my country is celebrating its freedom from the oppression of others, this grand experiment in finding its own authentic voice. I personally feel that citizenship (the rights, responsibilities, and acts of being a good citizen) is vitally important, much moreso than what specific country or community you are a ( Read more... ) -
Landing
At first, it was like we hadn't gone anywhere, really. Airports, and the areas around them, all look the same in the developed world. The air even tastes the same. And then, after I'd plugged our destination into the cabbie's GPS and we'd moved away from the airport a ways, I looked out the window and saw the palms and smelled the eucalyptus, and ( Read more... ) -
Mother's Day
...is for appreciating the mothers in your life. I am particularly blessed ( Read more... ) -
Breaking news: before the application deadline, I got my acceptance.
This ought to change things for the better for me, in some fundamental ways.
( for the curious, what I wrote ) -
Happy Birthday
It's about halfway in between two days of funerals. Iron Chef's maternal grandmother was much beloved, and had much progeny ( Read more... ) -
Knitting socks
I love knitting, but I don't much like knitting socks. Honestly, I prefer working with thick cushy bulky yarn, not fingering weight threads. Hats and neckwarmers and gloves, oh my. The vital items of clothing to keep one's loved ones protected through northern winters. Surely everyone has a warm coat, but there is nothing quite like a hat hand-knit ( Read more... ) -
It's called "viral" for a reason, but it's better than a cold.
Ganked from multiple places, just have to pass it along: Don't Vote?I plan to get everybody together next Tuesday. All four of us, walking down together to vote. Maybe we'll need to wait in line. Maybe I'll be late to work, maybe Sparky will miss his first class. But you know what? Nothing is more important than doing your duty as a citizen, ( Read more... )