for the summer:

books (to start):
V and the crying of lot 49-Thomas Pynchon
Ficciones-Jorge Luis Borges
Numbers in the Dark and maybe some others-Italo Calvino
Foucoult's Pendulum-Umberto Eco
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle-Haruki Murakami
Slowness-Milan Kundera
The Master and Margarita-Mikhail Bulgakov
Infinite Jest-David Foster Wallace ( Read more... )

My parents brought back Tabloids from Paris, and they are so hilariously trashy. One article is an interview with "Mister France 2006" (who is the most attractive man in France, apparently) about his sex life. He says he has only slept with four girls, his first time when he was 19. He likes to take two to three hours for sex, and afterwards he ( Read more... )

Bandura and reciprocal determinism ( Read more... )

i am home!

dear friends, play with me!

love, hannah

i ate raw tofu for dinner because it couldn't be bothered to cook it. i'm using SAT flashcards as bookmarks: right now "curtail" is in A Man Walks Into A Room and "discord" is in my psych book ( Read more... )

yesterday we went to see Malian music on the floor of a converted bathhouse. and there was also a video, which showed part of a festival in which torches are places all over the desert, and i can't really describe it but it was so beautiful. i am so intrigued by the desert. also, i want to do a psychological study about children of missionaries in ( Read more... )

the psych book is so great at jokes. i love it.

for example:

"a statement like 'wow you are smart!' can be interpreted as 'i think you're an idiot' depending on the context"

i really like math.

"What are you looking at?" she asked ( Read more... )

when i was little, i had this toy called "house of cards." and now it is in my manhattan art in the 50s book.


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