# Spring 2009 classes for which I registered at registration time last semester: 5 ( Read more... )

i figured something out just now ( Read more... )

the evolution of digital communication means a lot of things. one of these things is that we become comfortable expressing ourselves through type, and proceed to have important conversations with it. not conversations that are intended to be important, but trivial conversations that assume significance because of how unremarkable they are. this ( Read more... )

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so it is june 10th. my summer has worked itself out-- and i use the reflexive there, because i really had very little to do with it. an email popped up in my inbox that offered me the opportunity to get paid to be Jim Henry's investigative research assistant on several different stories: the US as a tax haven, African country X's offshore loot and ( Read more... )

today, i watched a woman behind the counter of of a very expensive cupcake store that I had to photograph try to explain what a cupcake was to an interpreter, who tried to do the same thing in some obscure Eastern European language that i couldn't place for the stylish and confused-looking woman she was with. they couldn't nail it down ( Read more... )

this is from a late night draft that i didn't post ( Read more... )

first they told us 4,000 were dead. then it was 10,000. now, it's 22,500 with 41,000 still missing. that's 60,000 people who could be dead now, and the sicknesses haven't even taken hold yet. and the junta is reluctant to let western aid workers in, and the US is taking heat for putting diplomatic pressure on the junta, and it's awful, all of it. ( Read more... )

oh, life. you are really getting down on me right now ( Read more... )

Whenever I go abroad, I listen to songs that remind me, geographically, of home. They're not songs that I ever listen to when I'm at home, but songs that make me think of where I've come from. It's nice to be comforted that way, but it also means that "A Case of You" and "America" make me nostalgic for India ( Read more... )