After a Monday it’ll be a wonder if I can get words down in a comprehensible and monolingual manner. I just... I don’t even know. I love languages, and I love getting to speak them but... wow. Sometimes I feel so tongue tied, so ineloquent in everything. The new Brazilian girl at the Portuguese conversation table asked how I keep my languages ( Read more... )

...what kind of clothes would your girlfriend probably wear ( Read more... )

Sometimes I wonder what my life right now would be like if the Ingrid Michaelson concert had been on February 6th instead of February 7th ( Read more... )

Knock knock.
Come in?
Knock knock.
I said come in!
Knock knock.
Stop it, you're annoying me.
You're supposed to say, "Who's there?"
Do I look stupid?? I can see you!!

I have spent embarrassingly little time in the last twenty three and a half years within the city limits of Chicago, but while Naperville outside of, say, my parents and a few friends, doesn’t inspire much nostalgia or pride, I love Chicago and it is still the US city I would most like to live in. Weather notwithstanding. I love Chicago weather too ( Read more... )

I have had a rather eventful week full of studying for comprehensive exams, my first real essay in French, job interviews, black universities, travel plans, gossip, blood blisters, adultry, sleeping on the floor, teething babies, crazy dogs, Uzbek food, and lots and lots of life lessons that I might elaborate on later, but right now I'm watching ( Read more... )

Batized and belted. Gen was bored because we didn't get to go in the roda much or play instruments or lead songs, since there were so many great capoeiristas there. On the other hand, there were so many great capoeiristas there and I for one was not bored at all. Joan bought a camera for the occassion and took an hour of footage of the week which ( Read more... )

This one will inevitably be mostly about capoeira. What can you do ( Read more... )

After our capoeira demonstration ( Read more... )

Ugh, three forty five in the morning is NOT the time to discover a band, and four o’clock in the morning is NOT the time to discover that you have had two of their albums for the past two and a half years thanks to your Brazilian host brother and have never listened to them ( Read more... )