I don't usually post these things, but I know there are a large number of Pollan fans in this group: check it out! http://e360.yale.edu/content/feature.msp?id=2031

Okay, folks, I have one year left and I need some recs!! What classes and especially PROFESSORS have been awesome during your time at Yale? What should I not miss? Art classes? Cool labs? Early history? Literature? I'll apply to Writing Sci Fi and Translation and Journalism in the spring, as well as maybe glass-blowing or machine shop, and I'm ( Read more... )

So, I'm sitting at my desk at the YDN this morning, dithering and staring out the window, when two guys come through the Wolf's Head gate with a cherry red three-person bicycle. They wheel it inside and close the door.

What can this possibly mean?

my hands hurt! knuckles of forefingers especially. I'm a writer. This can't happen to me! How can fix with keyboard/drugs/stretching/black magic?

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Just got my new camera! *happy dance*

The beautiful Eunny Jang socks that would have taken me two months if I had not been attending school full time and took me five because I was (almost four skeins of Baby Cashmerino on 2.5s):

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Read:

A Passage to India

The Death of Arthur

Uncommon Carriers (John McPhee)

Two chapters of Stryer's Biochemistry.

Isn't life good?

You know those days when you feel really damn... productive? I'm vastly enjoying the current one, my first post-job day ( Read more... )

I'm looking forward to the day when knitting by young people is not considered ironic. All the self-conscious knitting blogs out there turn my stomach a little when I'm looking for a pattern or yarn online ( Read more... )