i just got an email from a girl in my seminar with the subject line "i'm sure you all may know, but..." and in it was a single line, stating that david foster wallace had committed suicide friday, and giving a link to the AP article. i hadn't known. i went into a mad flurry of googling, pleading quietly that it was one of those weird-ass faux ( Read more... )

i wish that letting go could be just that, a definite sort of release. dropping something and not picking it up, concrete. it isn't anything like that, is it? it's deciding this day, today, you will let it go, you will walk away, let it fall and not bounce. the sun is out, the music is loud, the trees are shading us just right, we can't stop ( Read more... )

let me preface this with the fact that i just decided it was entirely necessary to RUN all the way home from the (new) guy's house after a perfect labor day weekend bbq barbeque (i just can't.)  and brief stints at the homestead and 5 north. wearing gladiator sandals and teeny yellow not-running shorts. so i am a little buzzed, sweaty, and ( Read more... )

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Oh hai! My mom and innocently wandered into Half & Half after lunch today, and I got a shirt and some (rather baller) sunglasses. That's it. But according ( Read more... )

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At any given time, it's likely I'm doing some kind of obsessing.  Rarely in ways that lean towards any sort of compulsion, not even in an exaggerated, casual "gosh I'm so OCD" sort of way; instead, I obsess in phases. Since I was little my Dad made fun of my "one-track mind," sometimes just calling me "one track" when I took something, talked it ( Read more... )

Dear Rihanna,

Listen, girl, until now, you and I have been pretty OK.I haven't always agreed with all of your choices, but ill forever remember "SOS" fondly (though that is largely due to one Devin Thomas, and the way his own version sounded nervously bouncing through a Buffalo grain elevator one perfect summer evening). I've since stopped trying to ( Read more... )

You are IRRATIONALLY attractive.


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im home, and i could no doubt wax buffalovesick for days on how comforting its been from the moment i landed, face pressed against the window as we flew over the lake and towards the blazing green and white of our cozily humble skyline, giddy to be back in the us, back in my city, or how i came home to my mom's promised "1000 besos" (she's recently ( Read more... )

I might as well begin with Baños. Because like lots of things, I think I was finally be able to begin really thinking about Ecuador at the end, and sometimes, a Last Weekend (for the Us we've become anyone) operates exactly as it should, and even if we came home to anticlimactic goodbyes that later hit hard and fast, and if it didn't at all feel ( Read more... )