i had a dream i was helping an old and bald australian politician escape from a building. one of his enemies was trying to trap him in this tower then open the doors to a mob. the politician and i managed to run into the parking lot before the mob found us and we got into his shiny red car. but his driver, who was supposed to meet us there, hadn ( Read more... )

my roommate is gone for the summer. you know what this means? i get to keep the temperature at a nice, toasty 75 deg F minimum all day!

something good happened this weekend - i woke up without my usual apathy towards starting the day. and it was a good day! b and i had a nice brunch and went for a long afternoon walk down tree-lined streets and around a lake that was sometimes silver and sometimes blue and we sat in a patio and had tapas and sangria for dinner and watched the ( Read more... )

Winter was horrible and I've been in the city too long. I miss nature. Parks and lakes and anything this city has to offer won't do, I need something wild! Untamed! Aaaah!

latex takes all the fun out of making ppt presentations. i'd trade nicely formatted equations for clip art anyday

anyday.

it is so quiet in the West. after every visit back home the silence feels starker than usual. no one in the kitchen cooking elaborate meals, no one in the living room blasting terrible tamil music from their laptop. and the background noises have gone missing too - babies crying, children crying, parents yelling, stray dogs barking from the ( Read more... )

there was a thunderstorm on the 3rd of july, right after the fireworks! i heard people shrieking before i felt the rain hit - all at once and so heavy you had to close your eyes, like when swimming underwater - and then we were gloriously soaked and shivering and grinning and there was a mad rush into building one or three as people fought to ( Read more... )

SO it looks like I won't be spending the next five years in the Deep South but in Boston, or Cambridge, whatever, wherever, which is cool because Infinite Jest is set mostly in Massachusetts and I am in love with Joelle van Dyne. Sadly a certain school in Palo Alto has decided that my dream of sharing an apartment with D and five corgi puppies ( Read more... )

The train ride at peak hour should be enough to break the spirit but sometimes you find peace in an unlikely place.

The people around you talking in low murmurs as though in a library, draping their arms around lovers' waists, inhaling the sweaty odours of a hundred tired strangers and yet smiling over a text message.

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The wind at seven pm is the most wonderful thing, as are the jokes people make when they're inebriated, and dreams in which D is only a train ride away.

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