Saturday, October 30, 2004
Today I sat in an apple tree, ate the best apple ever, and watched the world go by....
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Thursday, October 28, 2004
And tear gas. The police are TEARGASSING people in Kenmore Square.
oh, sorry "some sort of smoking device".
Oh America. what would they do with the *real* anarchists?
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oh, sorry "some sort of smoking device".
Oh America. what would they do with the *real* anarchists?
Channel 7 announcer: "The best news is, the Red Sox won and we're still HERE. The world did not come to an end."
Red Sox WIN! Lunar Eclipse.
I was all teary-eyed.
Or maybe it was the Mastercard commercial ("Finding your way back home: Priceless")
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Red Sox WIN! Lunar Eclipse.
I was all teary-eyed.
Or maybe it was the Mastercard commercial ("Finding your way back home: Priceless")
Sunday, October 24, 2004
After a slight blood pellet mishap
R: Oh sure, we could ask them that...would you consent to be bled if we guaranteed you a seat for the show? The leeches are on the way.
And at 2:30 AM
I: So why will India have the largest english speaking population in 2020
A: Because I just read it in Playboy
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R: Oh sure, we could ask them that...would you consent to be bled if we guaranteed you a seat for the show? The leeches are on the way.
And at 2:30 AM
I: So why will India have the largest english speaking population in 2020
A: Because I just read it in Playboy
Saturday, October 23, 2004
I have beautiful brilliant roomates and one just got 177 on her LSATs (with barely studying) and we're so happy and oh...I'm very tipsy drunk right now. on only two drinks. but that doesn't change above statement:)
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Thursday, October 21, 2004
Red Sox WIN! Lowell House bells at midnight, flood of people following the band into Harvard Yard. Streakers- freshman glee clubbers. Then out to the Pit, dancing on top of the T-stop, Chrix with his trumpet, reveille and the national anthem. Everyone out- stoners, intellectuals, finals club, everyone. And a lone Yankee fan. Crowds looking for a car to overturn, Lets go Red Sox, Yankees Suck, RIOT!
and ceremoniously overturning a bike. Idle comments- paper due in 12 hours? section assignment? aw, who's going to class?
we're all talk at 1 AM.
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and ceremoniously overturning a bike. Idle comments- paper due in 12 hours? section assignment? aw, who's going to class?
we're all talk at 1 AM.
Monday, October 18, 2004
ISO: motivation, and a reason to work.
Last Seen: Lamont Library, Government Documents division, 17 months ago.
Reward Offered.
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Last Seen: Lamont Library, Government Documents division, 17 months ago.
Reward Offered.
Sunday, October 17, 2004
It's not what I believe in...
Nickel Creek and Howie Day with David Berkeley. Such...unambiguously good music (at least in my ears) as I haven't heard in a while. So much pleasure and sorrow and pain and joy, but straight from the stage and nothing else matters. How its meant to be.
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Nickel Creek and Howie Day with David Berkeley. Such...unambiguously good music (at least in my ears) as I haven't heard in a while. So much pleasure and sorrow and pain and joy, but straight from the stage and nothing else matters. How its meant to be.
Thursday, October 14, 2004
"What are the facts? Again and again and again—what are the facts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what 'the stars foretell,' avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors think, never mind the unguessable 'verdict of history,'—what are the facts, and to how many decimal places? You pilot always into an unknown future; facts are your only clue. Get the facts!"—Lazarus Long
"Only he who, by decision, has made his dialectical peace with the world can grasp the concrete. But someone who wishes to decide 'on the basis of facts' will find no basis in the facts."
- Benjamin
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"Only he who, by decision, has made his dialectical peace with the world can grasp the concrete. But someone who wishes to decide 'on the basis of facts' will find no basis in the facts."
- Benjamin
Tuesday, October 12, 2004
Another little book fell in my lap though right now, frankly, I don't have the energy to internalize it.
"to form mutually enjoyable, enduring, cooperating and reciprocating relationship with Other, with an equal
to be forgiven
to be loved
to be free"
- Sarah Kane
(I'm ID checking in the library, and someone just half-bowed ceremoniously to me before presenting me with books he was returning. how wonderfully goofy.)
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"to form mutually enjoyable, enduring, cooperating and reciprocating relationship with Other, with an equal
to be forgiven
to be loved
to be free"
- Sarah Kane
(I'm ID checking in the library, and someone just half-bowed ceremoniously to me before presenting me with books he was returning. how wonderfully goofy.)
Saturday, October 09, 2004
The score: Harvard 34, Cornell 24. 4 minutes left in the fourth quarter. Cornell's last minute attempt at psychological intimidation?
"Grade inflation....Grade inFLAtion..."
Things I learned today:
The name and number of the Crimson's quarterback, wide receiver and TB.
That I've become increasingly, unnecessarily two dimensional since coming here, and have assumed everyone else is the same way. Unfairly, ackwardly.
That I'm a poststructuralist in a literalist world, and its painful.
and then
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"Grade inflation....Grade inFLAtion..."
Things I learned today:
The name and number of the Crimson's quarterback, wide receiver and TB.
That I've become increasingly, unnecessarily two dimensional since coming here, and have assumed everyone else is the same way. Unfairly, ackwardly.
That I'm a poststructuralist in a literalist world, and its painful.
and then
Friday, October 08, 2004
"For most teenagers....leisure means...having a good time- physically, irresponsibly, spontaneously. It means drinking and laughing and doing nothing and sex and trying anything once before you have to do something forever. For these young people music itself neither satisfies needs nor symbolizes values, it is simply the noisy and buoyant context for all the other activities ."
- Simon Frith, Sociology of Rock
ah, if only.....I went to the career fair today, and all the options blossomed in front of me and and all the years of my life being subdivided and counted and weighed and predicted and everyone is going to law school, or dressing up and handing over their resumes and I'm alone and in a crowd and I just....don't know. Ben Lee's The Birthday Song and all the Radiohead I own.
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- Simon Frith, Sociology of Rock
ah, if only.....I went to the career fair today, and all the options blossomed in front of me and and all the years of my life being subdivided and counted and weighed and predicted and everyone is going to law school, or dressing up and handing over their resumes and I'm alone and in a crowd and I just....don't know. Ben Lee's The Birthday Song and all the Radiohead I own.
Thursday, October 07, 2004
Such a pretty line (and helped distract me from feeling totally out of my depth, and breadth, in seminar)
"Car j'ignore ou tu fuis, tu ne sais ou je vais,
O toi que j'eusse aimee, o toi qui le savais!"
-Baudelaire
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"Car j'ignore ou tu fuis, tu ne sais ou je vais,
O toi que j'eusse aimee, o toi qui le savais!"
-Baudelaire
Tuesday, October 05, 2004
the Package Depot (or, why I greatly dislike Boston)
So, for the first month of school, instead of packages being sent to each house's supers office they go to this package depot (three tin shacks on the MAC quad). So, because its supposedly closing tomorrow, future of remaining packages unknown, I went on a whim today (and well, if my econ textbook doesn't arrive soon, I'm gonna flunk)
Me: Hi, I think a package might have arrived, its probably smallis-
PD man (barking): Whats the number? gotta have a number
Me: uh, 348
him (continuing): all the talking in the world won't do any good if you don't have a number
Me (staring at the haphazard stack of boxes): I, um, just wanted to help describe-
him: There it is. Didn't need a description, did we?
off I slunk, overpriced shiny new econ textbook in hand. Did he ask for my ID to make sure it was my amazon box? no. Did I receive any notification at all I had a package? no. Do I have the courage to go back to see if my (also desperately needed) seminar books have arrived? um, don't think so.........
ARGH. I miss Washington.
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So, for the first month of school, instead of packages being sent to each house's supers office they go to this package depot (three tin shacks on the MAC quad). So, because its supposedly closing tomorrow, future of remaining packages unknown, I went on a whim today (and well, if my econ textbook doesn't arrive soon, I'm gonna flunk)
Me: Hi, I think a package might have arrived, its probably smallis-
PD man (barking): Whats the number? gotta have a number
Me: uh, 348
him (continuing): all the talking in the world won't do any good if you don't have a number
Me (staring at the haphazard stack of boxes): I, um, just wanted to help describe-
him: There it is. Didn't need a description, did we?
off I slunk, overpriced shiny new econ textbook in hand. Did he ask for my ID to make sure it was my amazon box? no. Did I receive any notification at all I had a package? no. Do I have the courage to go back to see if my (also desperately needed) seminar books have arrived? um, don't think so.........
ARGH. I miss Washington.
Monday, October 04, 2004
I love overtones in a church, and changing leaves against cerulean skies, and passing a field of little kids playing soccer.
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Friday, October 01, 2004
I've been looking forward to choir retreat for ages, and now its Here. Autumn is here, after two years gone.
Which brings to mind the following:
Negative expectations yield negative results.
Positive expectations yield negative results.
oh, well:)
and the days go by....
Speaking of expectations:
Econ 1010a: Microeconomics
Gov 1740: International Law
Portuguese for Spanish Speakers (and the realization that when I started to learn French, I already could pronounce things in French. Following from the realization- I really don't know how things are supposed to sound in Portuguese. Making this much harder than I thought)
History 99: Thesis of Anticipation and Dread
Comp Lit 261: Memory and Modernity
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Which brings to mind the following:
Negative expectations yield negative results.
Positive expectations yield negative results.
oh, well:)
and the days go by....
Speaking of expectations:
Econ 1010a: Microeconomics
Gov 1740: International Law
Portuguese for Spanish Speakers (and the realization that when I started to learn French, I already could pronounce things in French. Following from the realization- I really don't know how things are supposed to sound in Portuguese. Making this much harder than I thought)
History 99: Thesis of Anticipation and Dread
Comp Lit 261: Memory and Modernity
