5:07 PM Gabrielle: you have plans for tonight ( Read more... )

Today I hugged a stranger on the subway.

This post is just to remark upon how incredibly lucky and full of gratitude I am for my privileged life and upon how much I've grown in the past few years ( Read more... )

I've officially decided to write letters as often as possible, maybe even at least one every day or so, if I'm good ( Read more... )

Well, 2009 has started off with a bang.

Well, 2009 started off with a bang.

my year, via the first line of the first post of each month of 2008enero ( Read more... )

My GRE score is fine. The test is nothing but an overblown SAT, and the SAT ain't shit as far as I'm concerned. Now I just need to decide whether or not to apply to grad school now or later ( Read more... )

Last night, I had a dream that I realized my father was a junkie and had to take care of him as he was coming down and maybe overdosing (at the same time?)... less than an hour before I was scheduled to take the GRE. I had to ask myself in the dream whether or not I was using my father's condition as an excuse to avoid taking the test, as I hadn't ( Read more... )

Why, why, oh why, is this really cool McSweeney's Reading Night the same night as the all-important Dexter season finale? Sure, we DV-R it every week -- but we also watch it live, as a family every week. This small morsel of family ritual is more important than any cultural (hipstery) enrichment ( Read more... )