I just got an email from one of the fixers from Kashmir that began with "Hello Sufi Girl!!".

I miss them.

On why the business world is backwards and frustrating, and what the rest of my life may look like (working title ( Read more... )

delhi icky place ( Read more... )

well here I am in Delhi after nearly two weeks of pretty crazy shit. i have been hanging out with Sufi mystics, chainsmoking journalists, Islamic fundamentalists who yell at me for being Western, and professors who believe that Jesus Christ was buried in Kashmir ( Read more... )

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Today is just beautiful. It's not humid anymore, the sun is out, and, as of 9 am, it's 70 degrees. My studio just so happens to be located in the center of the flower district, and everything was just so perfect this morning. The streets were quiet, and the flowers were bursting with appreciation of yesterday's rain and today's sunlight. A string ( Read more... )

- i rather wish that I hadn't babysat then seventies partied last night, and that I instead had gone into the city with James, Amy, and Tim. it was a weird night for me, which now equals a weird day for me ( Read more... )

the real problem is not how late my mom was to the train station today, nor the horrible, horrible things that she said to me in the car on the way home. the problem isn't my dad's Peacekeeping Efforts, or that fact that we're going to have to make a big deal of this, to fight more, to make some attempt at working through a hurtful but ultimately ( Read more... )

i had to buy heavy linen paper at work today, so i walked 10 blocks and found The Paper District. It's hardly a District-- there are only three paper stores-- but oh my god. It was incredible. reams of paper in any color, size, texture, or weight that you could possibly want. envelopes, stationary, journals. So simple and so tangible, and so very ( Read more... )

Every thing, every word, every body is pissing me off right now. Fucking finals. They turn me into a horrible person. It'll be a wonder if I have any friends left after this week.