Morocco is pretty, we did some unethical but very relaxing tourism, etc. etc.


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So Christmas is about being with our (fiancé's) family and overeating and all, but who are we kidding, the presents are quite a perk. A hand-made hat and matching belt from my sister complemented by a hand-made bracelet from my mom and American Apparel pants from Alexis will make an excellent Christmas Eve ensemble:


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I returned my over-the-top fluffy coat and exchanged it for this one:


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I made friends with an art professor who seems to have briefly been a designer for Dior in the nineties. He agreed to take a look at some of my "work" (his idea, I would never have called my doodles "work"). He says I need to pull everything out of my sketchbook and upgrade it to art, whether that means painting it, putting it on a t-shirt, ( Read more... )

Guess where we're going for New Year's?

This semester I'm following a seminar entitled "Exquisite corpses and other surrealist crimes", primarily about the Surrealists' revolutionary preoccupation with violence. Our focus is currently on the "fait divers", literally the "miscellaneous fact", or, according to Barthes, the news story that has nothing to do with current politics, economics ( Read more... )

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"Hey Hannah."
"Yes?"
"You're a good Catholic."
"Why do you say that, because I feel guilty all the time?"
"No, because you've never had an abortion. Not yet..."

Does anyone else feel like the Republicans think Congress is a game and that each party is a team that's trying to win?

Please, America, I don't want washed-up quarterbacks and cheerleaders hurrahing my country all the way to Hell. Let's put them on academic suspension.

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