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Stéphane Bourguignon -- Le Principe du geyser
B'en... c'est prenant. Le genre de livre que je ne peux pas déposer pour plus de 30 secondes et que je termine en quelques heures. Mais en fin de compte c'est un peu vide. Même pornographique par bouts et je me suis beaucoup moins attaché aux personnages que dans L'Avaleur de sable. Ils pourraient pas juste en parler, tout regler et rentrer ( Read more... ) -
Trinie Dalton -- Wide Eyed
Hey, that's right... I'm a woman. I have very different sensibilities than a lot of my friends -- men. Seriously, I think I'd forgotten ( Read more... ) -
HDGs.
I started the quarter knowing I was destabilized by a hundred different little things that together resulted in a large perspective shift. Things like Microsoft, like being in love, like deciding I wanted to graduate on time, like Africa, like feeling like the world's shittiest coder. So I drafted a document labeled "howToFixMyself" which sits in ( Read more... ) -
I am a dropout.
My drama's been largely personal but I've worn it on my face for weeks; now I can hear the whispers all the way to my too-small home I used to function I used to function ( Read more... ) -
Dear Diary,
I haven't been doing well.
It's humbling to find out what the brain can do. -
Sheltered Musings.
I'm folding these gigantic shirts and shorts and boxers in the middle of the night and it occurs to me that the man they belong to is somebody's son.
All of these people (kids, really) are somebody's children and yet there they all are sleeping peacefully on the church floor as I do their laundry.
Me, with very different parents. -
On validation.
It's not even all that late but I'm stumbling home. And I've just told this guy that he upsets me (I've taken a vow of honesty and it's really working for me ( Read more... ) -
Life happens.
So... this is a story of a girl who had it all figured out. Her parents' friends thought it was adorable to hear a 13-year-old talking about graduate school and computational linguistics. She was confident and high performing and ambitious. And then life happened. Life like boys and robots and bad grades and physics and weed and sewing and ( Read more... ) -
Oh, Ghana.
Well, I've been back long enough that I can think about the trip without being debilitatingly sad to be back. The first week and a half back in Seattle has been a complete emotional roller coaster ( Read more... )
