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your splendid speed won't you abate?
I'd been planning to do a whole lot of nothing for Thanksgiving, but ended up with an invite to the dean of students' house down in Ferndale. And so I went! And it was delightful. A good 16 or so students showed up and enjoyed Thanksgiving with her big family. And they let me back into Canada afterward. Whew! (My new student visa still hasn't come ( Read more... ) -
like every day's too short
I don't know what happened, but today I totally woke up as one of those moody Northwesterners who stares out the window at the rain while listening to Bon Iver.
(Yesterday it was sunny and I was very perky and happy, I swear.)
Aglow
Matthew ZapruderHello everyone, hello you. Here we are under ( Read more... ) -
as human as they came in
I am procrastinating on doing real work. It's getting done, but only little by tiny little. But I found this while procrastinating.
It would be neat if with the New Year
Jimmy Santiago Baca
for MiguelIt would be neat if with the New Year ( Read more... ) -
afraid of just us
Every day there's another conservative endorsing Obama, and after reading Anne Applebaum's editorial, it's interesting that it appears the decision is as much a decision to vote against a particular party as it is a decision to vote for a particular candidate. It's interesting. At least in my brief life, I haven't seen so much rhetoric in an ( Read more... ) -
you heard the voice in the dark
"Listen to me," cried Syme with extraordinary emphasis. "Shall I tell you the secret of the whole world? It is that we have only known the back of the world. We see everything from behind, and it looks brutal. That is not a tree, only the back of a tree. That is not a cloud, but the back of a cloud. Cannot you see that everything is stooping and ( Read more... ) -
a very ordinary canary
I am a sucker for sentimental poems lately.
Now
Greg WatsonI told you once when we were young that ( Read more... ) -
briefly, on politics
I'm a little reluctant to post this for two reasons. First, I'd hate for anyone to rip on my dad, a longtime Republican, because while he and I do not always agree on politics, I am very grateful that he is very thoughtful in how he votes and because he has always had the grace to respect my decisions and thinking while pushing me to articulate it ( Read more... ) -
and i'll keep you, as people keep the sabbath
I haven't said too much election-wise here, in part because I haven't been posting and in part because I end up discussing it so much at school and with my dad (he might vote Democrat for the first time since 1980, that's how unimpressed he is by the ticket), but this Cary Tennis piece from Salon is worthwhile, in dissecting why Sarah Palin drives ( Read more... ) -
i still dream of running careless through the snow
So we survived the move, and we're in the new place, and how amazing it is to have my own bedroom in a basement suite that was always meant to be a basement suite. Oak Street is busy and I still can't fall asleep without earplugs, but I'm okay with that. I'm getting used to the distance, and while some of our friends whine and moan about how far ( Read more... ) -
and does not slip away
I hate moving. Moving an entire house full of people is so much more work than moving yourself--the process has utterly consumed the last couple days, and today so far as well, and I think there's few worse frustrations than feeling like some people are not pulling their weight. (And, frankly, I envy Marcus & Cam the furniture-moving, because at ( Read more... )