Andy just told me that his favorite author of all time is Ursula K. Le Guin, and that I'm only one of two people he knows who discovered her independently of him.

We talked for two hours about her books, and I've only read half of The Eye of the Heron.

I love books, and I love my boyfriend.

This one is just hysterical. My fifth grade history teacher liked to have us write stories about certain periods of ancient history. I got an 'A+', with the note, "Excellent. One of the few A+s I give out a year." Haha. But how about those character names? Do we really think ancient desert people named their camels? And who ever heard of hyenas in ( Read more... )

Excerpt from a love letter that I was going to send to John Chilet, the summer after seventh grade. It was an unrequited love, but he was moving to Nicaragua, and I was devastated. I'm definitely not including the whole thing (it's just too embarrassing), but I got a kick out of some of the flowery writing. Lord, have mercy, I definitely have a ( Read more... )

In anticipation of moving into my new apartment in New York, I've been spending the last few weeks cleaning out my childhood bedroom. I've thrown away and donated a lot of things from various stages in my life; I've packed away others for use with either a future house or a future child ( Read more... )

Computer, I hereby call you "Píng Guâ."

Other computer, I will name you "Oy sah."

(Second one phonetically spelled in such a way that I won't get it confused with Spanish.)

"Hello" in Mandarin:

Ni hao.
(Nee haOW)

Apartment update:

I bought a nice wood-frame futon with a Serta mattress. It won't be like a bed, but it will do the job in a small space. It should be pretty comfortable.

I'm making good headway with all the packing and sorting. So weird to find binders of Ithaca brochures from freshman year.

This week's New Yorker is a eulogy for John Updike. Colleagues wrote commemorative articles, photographers submitted their pictures of him, and the editors included a compilation of selected excerpts from Updike's career ( Read more... )

I'm posting from my BlackBerry, just because I can...

( Um, yes. )