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New Year
The last two years have been pretty damn eventful, to say the least ( Read more... ) -
christmas cards
Finished Mansfield Park, and my Austen project is now complete. I think I'm actually going to re-read Persuasion again next, though, because last time I read it was in the awful Victorian Lit class I took in grad school (to be carefully distinguished from the wonderful Victorian Lit class I took in college ( Read more... ) -
Books
Some books I read this year and liked. Not an exhaustive list. May contain books published before 2011 ( Read more... ) -
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Add Palo Alto to the list of places I might be living next year! Dan just got an interview there. He has a friend living in San Francisco right now so he is mostly happy that he gets to visit her ( Read more... ) -
next year
Dan pretty much has his internship interview schedule locked up. Next year I will be living in one of these places, listed in order of desirability ( Read more... ) -
it's holiday time
So, Dan and I are thinking of actually getting our act together and sending out cards this year. In the event that we do so, and you would like a card, please email me your address at fcgiordano at gmail dot com. And if you do so, tell me what your address is too! -
hypothesis
I think I may actually enjoy re-reading books that I really love more than I enjoy reading new books. And don't get me wrong, I REALLY love to read a new book. But there is just something about re-reading a book after enough time has passed such that you remember the general outlines of the story but not the particulars. Re-reading Winter's Tale ( Read more... ) -
Mountain Day
It is time for my annual re-posting of the journal entry I wrote for my senior year Mountain Day ( Read more... ) -
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women stuff
Went to a lab party with Dan last night. It was fun, except we left about two hours after what would have been reasonable considering I had to get to work early today. Dan's adviser was there, which was fine except I have a strong suspicion that he finds me intellectually inferior and therefore an unsuitable mate for his protege. Which, you know, ( Read more... )