by the way, i got this letter late last week ( Read more... )

i am getting through this master's written exam. really. in spite of the crew jackhammering outside my window yesterday while i was outlining. and the power outage today while i was typing. i got 17 pages typed today (it may be a one-day record for me), but i still have about 6 to go and this is tiring. i keep telling myself i just have to make it ( Read more... )

I had promised Evan I would do a load of laundry while he was in Lexington for the weekend, so this morning I got up, got the dark wash together, and took the elevator to the basement laundry room. I got the wash started, got back in the elevator, and pressed the button for floor 3. Nothing happened. I pushed it again. I tried the basement button, ( Read more... )

the next few months ( Read more... )

from the AP: BRICK, N.J. - Into his 90s, decimated by the loss of his beloved wife, and alone at night with the memories of a rough and sad childhood spent battling an alcoholic father and vicious anti-Semitism, Harry Bernstein decided to write.

my question: short of amputation, can a person really be decimated?

the cat's out of the bag: i'm going to be a medievalist. doesn't that sound sexy?

Evan and I got Chinese carry-out the other night. When we opened our fortune cookies, he started laughing.
I asked, "Does it say we're going to get married and have three kids?"
He showed it to me. It said,
"You and your wife will be happy in your life together."
I think poor Evan was a little freaked.

i was thinking while walking down locust walk today that i seem to have lost this journal as a space for recording the small things i used to take so much pleasure in setting down. and that no space has since taken its place. this means that my interiority tends to stay that way. it ought to be maddening, and maybe it is. i don't know whether i can ( Read more... )

Just to let y'all know, I'm alive and well in Philly.The weather has cooled off, and I'm reading my ass off until the school year begins. Love to all y'all.

Hey to all my Ky buddies, this is to let you know that my moving date has been set for July 24. Evan and I will be relocating semi-permanently to Philly. Until that point, I'm going to be almost exclusively in Lexington (with maybe a day or two in L'ville). So, the point of this message is this: If you would like to see me before I go, please come ( Read more... )