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in which i buy placenta forceps and reset my own soundpost
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i've just realized that the reason i've not been able to get up in the morning the last few days is the week i had and the week i had before it. halloween was surrounded by three successive nights of partying, which hasn't happened in a very long time, and was extremely enjoyable and tiring. the nights directly before that there were the ensemble ( Read more... ) -
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in the first exercise i've had for a month, i went rowing on the Hudson. the swells alarmed the coxswain a little, but the other three people and i enjoyed it immensely. seeing new york and new jersey both from the same angle, looming in their dark pastels over the green-brown water, with the pink tumultuous sky reflecting on the buildings and in ( Read more... ) -
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all of the meetings finally paid off. the sds chapter at my school hosted a speaker tonight to talk about "students and revolution", none other than Michael Albert, the celebrated former-student-organizer-and-sixties-radical-personality. the talk was alright. but turnout to the event went far beyond my expectations, considering sds is thought of as ( Read more... ) -
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one thing i haven't done this summer is update this thing. so: just now i gained co-rentalship of a great apartment in jersey city for the school year. it's huge, and cheap, and has lots of windows viewing new york, and anyone can come and visit me if they want to. it also seems to be the only place in the new york metro area with a dishwasher. i ( Read more... ) -
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i have an amazing cold sore/ pimple in my mouth which gets larger and more painful when i eat bad food and smaller when i'm not eating (or whenever i eat good stuff. not often). -
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here's what happened today. during my bass lesson, my teacher kept increasing tempos on me to see how fast i could play, which annoyed me but he seemed impressed. he isn't always impressed. then during ensemble rehearsal, two of the three Dans had a protracted ideological argument about whether playing 'really out' was ok at school; one of the dans ( Read more... ) -
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the other day, my long-lost first-cousin-once-removed appeared. he's my age, and named like my brother, max. he regaled us with tales of india, china, diamond smuggling, vector proofs, time, modal jazz, our estranged extended family, and the tao. we siblings read an absurdist play together ( Read more... ) -
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the national conference of organized resistance is a family reunion, one sketchy kid said to me. i once received a text message which said, 'hi, this is austin, from germany. i think we're in the same room - i'm in the back row'. this and other things made me happy in ways i cannot describe. there was a lecture on organizing with love that i ( Read more... ) -
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speaking with a friendly, calm, composed, and quiet man in alaska this evening reminded me how crazy everyone here in new york is. people look at you funny if you're not angry or keyed up. i've been here long enough that i don't notice the heat of the water anymore. i'm afraid i might have scared him off.