i am going to Italy to WWOOF, that is, travel and work on organic farms, focused on sustainability. i fly into rome on thursday, but i'll be staying in a little nook called Fara Sabina, about 20 km from la citta di Roma. sono molta emocionata! spero che quando ritornarei agli stati uniti, sarei fluente. because right now my italian sucks.

I'm Leaving on Saturday. Who wants mail ( Read more... )

andrew bird,

i love you, even though you rhyme sanguine with figurine and banal with flannel.

my list is always 20 books long and i usually get through about 11. i did a little better this summer, so that's nice ( Read more... )

David Foster Wallace hanged himself on Friday night ( Read more... )

does anybody remember chris peterson? he has three kids now.

i counted yesterday, bonsall has 7 traffic signals.

an elaborate foray in the study of the humanities, and the essential nature of numbers becomes apparent.

"i hate my job."
"you know, they have a support group for that."
"really?"
"yeah, it's called 'everybody'; they meet at the bar."

so, for my last full day in los angeles, we went down to the fairmont miramar hotel on the corner of ocean avenue and wilshire boulevard, on the cliffs of Santa Monica. peter's parents are down for a visit and that is where they are staying, and it just so happens, a good friend of mine works afternoons at the poolside bar. peter, robert, and ( Read more... )

At work today, a woman, maybe 27, approached and asked where the "Stephanie Meyer" books were. Now, for those not familiar, this woman Stephanie Meyer is writing a new series of 900+ page books, and it is, according to one of my co-workers who is reading them, essentially 90210 with vampires. This series is monopolizing book sales recently, and, ( Read more... )

Just today I turned in my last paper due for Spring quarter. Apparently, I'm not the last person in the class to do so. Anyway, I go to his summer school class and hand it to him, and we go and kick it in his office for a minute, and talk and what have you, I mention my intentions to harass him for a letter of recommendation in a year or two (or ( Read more... )