Consummation Of Grief ( Read more... )

Earthquakes, please stop happening. I want to be asleep, not wondering whether or not I ought to be bracing myself in the doorframe of my bathroom.

( Read more... )

Graduate-School Leaders Want Ph.D. Candidates to Finish Sooner and With Better Job ProspectsBy DAVID GLENN Arlington, Va ( Read more... )

I took her hand in mine, and we went out of the ruined place; and, as the morning mists had risen long ago when I first left the forge, so, the evening mists were rising now, and in all the broad expanse of tranquil light they showed to me, I saw the shadow of no parting from her ( Read more... )

The year my parents died ( Read more... )

My apartment is ugly. It is ugly, and I do not know what to do about it ( Read more... )

I spent last night drinking and eating Japanese appetizers with my department, which included a few other students but was mostly older men who actually teach me things. It was a little awkward, especially as the professor sitting next to me accidentally put his hand on my (bare) foot at least once while trying to reposition himself. We were ( Read more... )

Leaving los angeles in one hour and forty-five minutes, assuming everything (namely, LA traffic and taxi service) goes my way. Then, to home #1 for a week, and thennn to home #2. If you happen to live in home #2, dear ann arbor, and would like to let me sleep on your couch -- well, that'd be just fine.

Life may be something of a bitch, but Silk's soy creamer is still absolutely delightful.