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Yo,
I've gone back to posting on blogger. I might cross-post, but I've been having trouble with LJ recently so I might not. Again, that's travelinbug DOT blogspot DOT com.
xo
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In Memoriam
One year ago Wednesday, Angelina Malfitano was killed in a car accident. She was 22 ( Read more... ) -
oh come on!
Yesterday I was in the grocery store. Among other things, I wanted to buy some bread. I'd like to point out that all non-paste-like breads (paste -like breads being the no-grain, poor quality breads, i.e., what's affordable) were on the shelf labeled "specialty breads". Holy crap.
Okay, fine. So I guess I want a "speciality bread". My grandmother ( Read more... ) -
Review: Last Holiday
Last Holiday stars Queen Latifah as Georgia Byrd, a low-level retail employee who, upon learning she has a rare terminal disease, cashes out her IRA and flies off to Prague to live out her dreams. The film is wholly predictable, pure fantasy, preachy to shame the pope. The main storyline revolving around a corporate executive, a congressman, and a ( Read more... ) -
mess o' hair
Hi,
For those who haven't seen me in a while, here's what my head full of curls looks like (after being under a helmet for much of the day):
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Thank god! And F*.
[tried posting this last night, didn't work]
I didn't get the job at NCTE! This is a huge relief. At the same time, though--crap! There goes my health insurance.
I had been questioning whether I really wanted the job recently. They presented it so differently in the interview than what was posted, and I don't want to be a professional lobbyist. But ( Read more... ) -
print.
Benedict Anderson says nations were produced in part by the arrival of print culture, thus allowing groups of people to form imagined communities and circulate ideology much faster than ever before.
I agree. But another aspect of printed media, and specifically of recorded and archived correspondence, is the transfer of pathos and ethos outside its ( Read more... ) -
governmentality
Yesterday during my ten minute break between classes, I was sitting outside Angell Hall eating bread. A police officer drove up relatively close, parked, and got out. As he passed me, he doubled back and asked if I was Jaya. Surprised, but not alarmed, I answered that I was.
"Did you lose your wallet?"
"[mental check]...I guess so!"
"We've got it down ( Read more... ) -
sometimes I say smart things.
I found this in a paper I wrote last semester:
"The vim of agency, then, permits the retention of Whiteness/civility." - regarding representations of mental illness, race, and gender in John Ford's 1956 film The Searchers.
The statement stands, I think, outside that context as well.
Thoughts? -
Zoom.
Fast forward a week and a half:
I've moved into A&A's apartment (henceforth known as "Riverview"), Alicia's in Denver, and Andrea leaves for Johannesburg this afternoon.
Though I'd meant to practice the bike ride from Riverview to campus starting a few weeks ago, I never got around to it, so this afternoon's ride to class will be exciting. It's not ( Read more... )