This is just to let the world know that I will be abandoning livejournal for the time being as it takes near impossibly long to load on this slow-ass Indian internet service and my internet time is currently absorbed elsewhere. Still, never fear! My promised travel blog has now come and anyone who cares to can keep tabs on my weird and wonderful ( Read more... )

I am most pleased to know that I will be spending my first three days in India here: http://www.ywcaindia.org/igh.htm, at the YWCA International Guest House in Delhi. I am praising Bhaguvan because the place has AIR CONDITIONING in all of its rooms and thus I will greatfully have a ( Read more... )

GENERAL NOTICE: My cell phone cannot recieve text messages. If you have been texting me, I have not been able to read your messages nor do I know who sent them. If you need to get through to me, please call and leave a message. My phone is frequently silenced due to my being in class and in cellphone-hating coffee shops, but I will call you back ( Read more... )

नमसते दोसत

Devanagari? Crap, I can't write half consonants...this is a problem.

My dad has been reading Thich Nhat Hanh. I said, "you mean the Vietamese Zen Buddhist spiritual leader?" He said, "yeah, him ( Read more... )

After several days of reading New Testament journals, Bible dictionaries, Commentaries, and books on the Eucharist, I now find that I can sound out words in the Greek text, and even occasionally understand them (given the relatively small vocabulary relevant to accounts of the Lord's Supper). This is not a result of any effort invested on my part ( Read more... )

The closer it gets to the end of this year at Swarthmore, the more I think about this:


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"I think I can I think I can I think I can I think I can."


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Was down on South Street this afternoon. Beautiful day. I saw a vintage bug with an amazing body job and eight million bikes chained outside the Whole Foods. I shoulda brought my camera. The vibe kinda reminded me of home, except a lot less white. I realized that there are actually not two, not three, but four sex shops on South Street (within a ( Read more... )

This morning in English one of the facilitators used the phrase, "hegemonic and subordinating discourses." Can I just say how SICK I am of hearing about "hegemonic and subordinating discourses" from THE ACADEMY. Because like it or not folks, we're all sustaining and submitting ourselves to a fuckload of "hegemonic and subordinating discourses" just ( Read more... )