i just painted my room red, so this is becoming something of a spring semester tradition. except this year i'm living in the same room i lived in last semester, and somehow the paint job makes the room feel like a university reading room. i think i need to get curtains, because the mini-blinds that came with the apt are only exacerbating the ( Read more... )

i wonder if their parents would mind.


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i woke up to buckets of thunder and rain but biked to work under steamy-not-stormy skies. the babies and i were then instructed to go to the harvard museum of natural history. so off i go, 1.5 year olds in tow, or rather me lagging behind a larger than life double stroller. we get drenched by a speeding taxi on the way over but manage to dry off ( Read more... )

this paper is so boring that i feel bad for my professor for having to read it.

today:

1. read topdog/underdog before leaving bed. it's really good ( Read more... )

place: yellow and white-tiled terrace overlooking 3 bodies of water (pool, intercoastal waterway, ocean), 2 tennis courts, 1 boat, several old ladies lying out on pool chairs ( Read more... )

The Diameter of the Bomb - Yehuda AmichaiThe diameter of the bomb was thirty centimeters ( Read more... )

my friend julia (middle) took this of my roommate mina (left) and i (right, with no eyes behind the glare).


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What began as sad interest quickly turned into disgust as the Neiman Marcus advertisement splashed itself across the NYTimes.com webpage. In her article, "When Midlife Seems an Empty Plate," Ginia Bellafante repeatedly laments that "no one knows exactly why" older women are increasingly diagnosed with eating disorders, but sitting in front of my ( Read more... )

awesome.