Things Accomplished in North Carolina Thus Far ( Read more... )

Two Things You Should Watch/Read:
1. Savage Inequalities by Jonathan Kozol. This guy changed my sister's life, and now I finally understand why. An expose of public schools, and of the inherent racism/classicism in the educational system and the shocking conditions of schools in poor areas. If you are an American, you should read this book.
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Three Distinct Music/Memory Associations that I Find Myself Thinking About at Depth Randomly For Unknown Reasons:

+ Summer 2003. Pete Yorn. Although Pete Yorn's first album, musicforthemorningafter is a consistently better album that I listened to throughout high school approximately as much as I listened to The Bends or Recovering the Satellites ( Read more... )

Alright. I'm freaking out a little bit. I was going to write this lovely long entry today about the new apartment and life in Boston and la de da, but now I'm just going to write about bees. For any of you who don't know, bees are the only things in this world that I am truly TERRIFIED of. Well, house centipedes may be creeping up on the list, ( Read more... )

The first wave of goodbyes happened two weekends ago, with the departure of Kim and Cliff and Sam and Luis, and I had a momentary emotional breakdown but since then have been back to happy, fun oblivious Summer of 2006! The second wave of goodbyes is fast approaching, though, so I'm trying to prepare myself for the final weepy meltdown. The only ( Read more... )

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When I walked out of the T station today after work, back out into the sunshine as it was getting ready to fade back into early evening, there was a guy standing there on the brick. He was waiting for the guy walking in front of me. He wore a black buttoned shirt, held an H&M bag, the guy in front of me wore baggy khaki cargo pants, had hooped ( Read more... )

For anyone who's interested, ( Some of the writing I did while I was in Hawaii. )

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A little addendum to my last entry: I am serious about this selling-my-photos thing ( Read more... )