so my parents were supposed to visit, fuck i hate the postal service, but they have some BANQUET to attend, and this is only justified if my dad is going to wear a gilded plastic crown and eat ginormous drumsticks (harvested from dinosaur turkeys) out of beaten lead bowls. my mother will not be providing accompaniment on the lute, unfortunately, ( Read more... )

wow, it's been a while ( Read more... )

life continues apace. i was in the seven the other day, and a fellow was carrying a textbook on some philosophical reaction to theology or another, which made me nostalgic, so i decided i was going to throw the idea of architecture out the window and go back into academia- painful as it sometimes is. so that got me started working on the hymn to ( Read more... )

angelino wrote me an email in italian, and we're going to learn italian that way. i daresay ( Read more... )

i am now sitting in first wok, drinking almond bubble tea. it tastes like marzipan. imagine that ( Read more... )

but i didn't take all of them
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brief thoughts in the five minutes before i have to go to work ( Read more... )

currently reading les liaisons dangereuses; afterwards something angelino has recommended a gabriele d'annunzio, whose name amuses me as it probably did his parents. i have made a few new friends. we went to jabberwocky last night with them. i think we may have a party this saturday, as it is probably the only saturday i'll have off anytime soon. ( Read more... )

so my life is very boring from a distance, and inscrutably interesting when viewed close up. but maybe that's because i'm trying as hard as i can to make it so. apparently there were christian crusaders with big banners out by the amphitheater today telling people like gabo they were going to hell, and angelino and i went to see them, but the rain ( Read more... )