Excerpts from Exam Time ( Read more... )

And oh my god when you cross your legs beside me ( Read more... )

All I ask is all of your midnights ( Read more... )

If you run across an American kid named Tara, there’s about an equal shot they’re named after one of two things: the hills in Ireland where the ancient Celtic kings famously met, or the plantation immortalized by Scarlett’s adventures in Gone With The Wind. Though you might think the traditional seat of Irish government a more well informed and ( Read more... )

Last night I was at Second Cup, reading THE KANDY-KOLORED TANGERINE-FLAKE STREAMLINE BABY (wolfe) to take a break from Rousseau, when I turned a page and a dc metro fare card fell out. Since the book was (I believe) acquired from the Bethesda Second Story Books, my discovery is fairly unsurprising, though it filled me with a delicious nostalgia for ( Read more... )

Trust me dear you’re better off this way ( Read more... )

I am updating because Natalie ordered me to. When I protested that, really, I’ve done nothing of consequence since last posting, she replied ( Read more... )

I just got up from my recovery nap (read: 12 hours comatose) after completing my research paper on Erasmus and the Condition of Women. Somewhere in the back of my mind, a voice says that beginning research papers on the day they are due is likely a bad idea, that my direct personal experience should by now have shown me that coffee cannot replace ( Read more... )

$14 to repair my favorite boots, destroyed by my heartless treatment ( Read more... )

Words of the week: effulgence, contumely, pertinacious, bidiurnally, rhizomes ( Read more... )