While I'm waiting on admissions decisions once again, I thought I'd do as I did last year and check the weather in each of my prospective future hometowns ( Read more... )

"Wow, you look really great. Did you lose weight?"

No. Those are called boobs and my eyes are up here.

And you ask me what I want this year ( Read more... )

I want a red dress ( Read more... )

I had the most vivid dream last night. I haven't dreamt about ballet for a long time--my image of myself as a dancer is something I've struggled with, something that is so deeply part of me and yet seems so foreign these days, like a person I used to know that I don't have anything in common with anymore. But last night in my dreams I was in a ( Read more... )

It's coming on christmas ( Read more... )

Suite Francaise--Irene Nemirovsky
The Omnivore's Dillema: A Natural History of Four Meals--Michael Pollan
The Year of Magical Thinking--Joan Didion
The Working Poor: Invisible in America--David K. Shipler
How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization--Franklin Foer

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It's truly a beautiful day. All of the bosses are out of the office and I'm wearing jeans at work. We ordered in Jimmy Johns for lunch. The sky is blue, the sun is shining, it's close to seventy degrees outside, and the Democratic party controls the Legislative and Executive branches of government in Iowa for the first time in 42 years. I love ( Read more... )

Today is a Holy Day of Obligation, All Saints' Day. Last night, most of us celebrated the vigil on All Hallows' Eve, although we probably didn't acknowledge it as such. All Saints' Day was instituted by Pope Gregory III in the 8th Century as a Feast to honor all saints, both known and unknown, and as a day for the faithful to make up for anything ( Read more... )