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Oh Indianaaa
General status update (because I write these in my head all the time but never really do it): I got an interview to Indiana University! Very happy. However, all the jobs I have applied for have not come through, which I find very discouraging. Also not hearing back from the other schools has made me slightly despondent, especially since Samer got ( Read more... ) -
part of a letter re arecibo
The premise of our taking a trip was to go visit Arecibo, which is presently the world’s largest radiotelescope (but will soon be second, by about fifty meters, to one in China). We were the visiting ecologists, and they tried dumbing it down to us as much as they could but barely succeeded in allowing us to catch a few key phrases like “space”, “ ( Read more... ) -
Las ratas tienen frio
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Serene mornings
Some mornings after particularly tense and hair-rising nights seem especially serene. You wake up, and it's as though there's a fairy gently draping the curtain of sleep off you. When you see the palm waves and the light sparkling on your window, and time seems still. Sleep is in your bones. I felt this way after David told me he loved me, after I ( Read more... ) -
FLMNH
Ah, I love the museum! I've never been more pumped up. Well, okay, maybe I've been this pumped before - but I'm pretty psyched now, and I love it. I love feeling so excited and happy that my stomach feels like imploding and I have a knot in my throat. I got a job working with butterfly systematics of the genus Tegosa in the museum with Dr. Keith ( Read more... ) -
Dario, Silva y Marti
Escapar - eso era la idea del modernismo, un movimiento literario nacido en Hispanoamérica. Influenciado del nacionalismo inherente en la obra de José Martí, era cumplido e iluminado con la influencia de Rubén Darío, cuya colección de poemas, Azul, mostró este movimiento a la atención nacional, y es la razón por su reconocimiento como el fundador ( Read more... ) -
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I've come to realize that I'm an incredibly, incredibly anxious person. I mean, I will literally flip my shit over anything. I was hanging out with Luis and started dancing to an imaginary beat in my head when this grad student in my lab walked by ( Read more... )
