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For a long time, I simply couldn't get into my LJ, as both the password and the email seemed to have changed. I tried anyway. Repeatedly. I don't know if my spam filter just shrank ten sizes today or what, but through random magic a lost password email made its way to me -- and so here I am. And with that said, this journal is becoming a private ( Read more... )

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When I first saw Little Vera, I had a prissy reaction to that soviette’s limited wardrobe, consisting only of a drab house dress and then dramatic eighties-fabulous party clothes. My thinking then was, ick, how unhygienic, a reflex reaction only mildly tempered by the professor’s discussion of how very ‘capitalist’ our wardrobes were - that the ( Read more... )

FINISHED THAT GODDAMN WRITING SAMPLE. :D


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Thanksgiving was uneventful but lovely. My mother is the queen of boxed foods, and turkeyday did not disappoint. I left very early into the holidaying to nap at home, and woke up to mathematics (geometry!) and a pudgy dog demanding a walk. Did not write my personal statement, which needs doing. Desperately. (Tonight’s the night! #ineffectivemantras ( Read more... )

Fifty pages of fundamental mathematics? Check, f-list. I need to read fifteen pages a day in order to get to the end of my GRE mathematics guide, that I might pass the test on December 6th. It’s been really pleasant so far, but then …

plastic_jaws: :P oh math
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Work has been wonderful recently. (Here: italics without irony.) Louis Armstrong’s rendition of ‘La Vie En Rose’ walked me through a power-hour of cashiering a week ago; funnily, it’s those lovely old slow songs that get me through the high-stress moments the best, as if outer hubbub bows to Satchmo blues. In the subconscious attic: worries about ( Read more... )

Undertaken with my darling dauntless plastic_jaws

1. Get into one grad school.
2. Lose 20 pounds.
3. Do 30 pushups.
4. Read 30 books.
5. Write 15 poems, and share them.