This is something I caught in today's NYT Mag, it began with a quote from DeLillo (Mao II) and in the second paragraph ( Read more... )

Another morning at the beach, then the parade.

The men in bikinis, in dresses, in heels, as Princess Di and various other female icons.

Fuck.

Me.

I have words for nothing. Reading all this Annie Dillard shiznit and she verbalizes every last minutiae of consciousness. Poetically! And I? My self-consciousness contrives to block me from every ( Read more... )

Watched some Discovery Channel...faux-intellectual programming on the alleged discovery of Nefertiti's mummy. Which, of course, filled me with horror ( Read more... )

Here I am in Provincetown, on Cape Cod while Rasha is shlepping around NYC ( Read more... )

Yo ( Read more... )

The following e-mail is why I want to teach ( Read more... )

So on the 4th, I'm heading back up to school to settle in just before SEAD (Summer Enrichment at D--) begins.

A little apprehensive. Feel amorphously unqualified for teaching. Feel that students will hate me.

And. That. Is. All.

Bleh.

Just got back from Amit's place...a little sitting around, chit-chatting while MTV2 sparkled in the background ( Read more... )

A year ago, April, I said:

It's easy to be alone when you're young.

Who

am

I?

A papaya-eating, e-mail obsessed, cold-handed, nail/nail-polish nibbling, headaching...

freak.

So, tomorrow I am going to attempt my first meal. As next year will no longer be dining on college-fare and must learn how to cook things. In addition to owning a Chinese cookbook and knowing how to make curried...things...and korean pancakes, I have collected recipes for the following ( Read more... )