i'm 21 and it was the first day of school. so that meant waking up at your boyfriend's, watching the french dirty movies i brought back, making myself eggs and coffee ( Read more... )

i found joes movies in montmarte and they were each cinquante euro

afs camp was thursday and friday, the other volunteers were crying, but the only thing i felt was the same feeling as a big guilt in the stomach, after they had all left. i'm not even sure why ( Read more... )

sunday night was long awaited. some time when i was working, in mid june, i saw relax, the bar two doors down, put out a sign for $1 beer. sure enough it was not the most hopping in front, that's usually friday when the yuppie girls are outside, and saturday when the neighborhood indie kids come for a dj night. i think this week it's black vs. time ( Read more... )

two guys on kids bikes, polish lady on phone, porch people house 1 and 2, two polish guys, two alley rummagers with carts, two more polish guys (crustier), family of three, hispanic guy, two dudes smoking up, 2 more dudes, bar regular?, hipster dude, some others i don't remember who passed me by on the phone while talking to meredith.  she said she ( Read more... )

“McCain’s problem is the problem of his party demonizing Hispanic people,” Cortes said. “His party demonized us. You can’t switch off the immigration rhetoric and think it will work. In the context of the immigration issue, Hispanics define the enemy as the Republican Party and you don’t erase that overnight"

“You begin with the anti-immigrant ( Read more... )

in budapest i really got to open my eyes, to bring my visual observations to europe, and to draw on a language that looked like it was from mars most of the time.  a city with a rich graphic tradition, where the buildings were covered in terra cotta and statues and curlicues and all sorts of other things i learned the real name for in art history. ( Read more... )

today i was fired from my job, which leaves me with a little over one hundred dollars to my name ( Read more... )

there's a great czech place on central at belmont, it's amazing all the polish people walking around and minding their own business ( Read more... )

dropped jess and alvaro off at o'hare, it's quiet, boring, and i'm hungry. at least i still have some beer ( Read more... )