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i learn more about my brother talking to my aunt than i do with him. thanksgiving was a nice excuse to ride a night train and see my family again. i hope angie's health improves. i got some new shoes but they aren't sexy or anything. just simple. that is how i like to keep it. it is exciting that there are only a few weeks of school left. i am ( Read more... )

last night was pretty vulnerable. i wanted to have a girlfriend and go on a date but there was nobody there so i took myself out. i ate indian food and ran into emax at royal bengal. i saw "synecdoche, new york" which took me apart like most kaufman films do. there was a preview for a new kate winslet/leonardo dacaprio film called "revolutionary ( Read more... )

i have had "glamour profession" by steely dan stuck on eternal repeat in my head for the past week. this is both a blessing and a curse.

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cutest: thinking bee, thinking bee!

most annoying: "i don't want to live together because then i couldn't date other people"

after the most sleepless week of my life i am home. today was memorial day and syndi's parents came over and ignored me. that's fine, i don't have anything to say to them. syndi was wearing my independent hamburger company t-shirt that peter ripped from me. oh well. runja said i look good in it, that shirt. i am desperate to be productive and feel ( Read more... )

of my semester is approaching, and i am the most compressed i've ever been on all sides. i say i'll do things when i really shouldn't like being the new wmbr program director. i never spend time on actually working and developing academic ideas and projects; they are always frantic and during the time when you don't know what day it is because it ( Read more... )

i enjoy reading w.g. sebald's work. i pick up "the rings of saturn" every few days and read all or part of a chapter. that book is told in a series of solitary adventures the narrator has. i like it because he writes very evenly and calmly and with no sense of plot movement, but mainly wondrous description and a genius incorporation of images to ( Read more... )

"at each moment, subtle changes in the quality of light and ambient air generate feelings within us feelings which are central to our beings" -charles correa ( Read more... )