Thursday, June 30, 2005
Poland in orientation week, to date: zubrowka (bison grass vodka) with apple juice, a large number of egyptian themed restaurantes (cleopatra and sphinx), many hours stumbling through odd consonant sequences, realizing I'm the second oldest and acting like the kid I never was. O. trying to tell the waitress the food was good, and instead saying robustly, "pretty! pretty!" in polish. she smiled uncertainly at him and cleared the dishes.
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Monday, June 27, 2005
....and as I type, some of the gang are outside being interviewed for the local polish television station....
and lets not forget running into, in the lobby of the slightly seedy Warsaw hotel, a William and Mary guy who will be rooming with someone from my high school (who I actually know) next year. craziness.
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and lets not forget running into, in the lobby of the slightly seedy Warsaw hotel, a William and Mary guy who will be rooming with someone from my high school (who I actually know) next year. craziness.
Sunday, June 26, 2005
a forest of crosses grew in the city
the endless day that was thursday friday saturday ended at a techno club (overcrowded, overlit, oh so free) in Warsaw saturday night, and sleep, and on the road again we go to Stalowa Wola tonight after a pit stop at the U.S. ambassador's residence (can we say tennessee republican?). warsaw: mixture of reconstructed old town and soviet bloc....and people waiting for internet because its all at breakneck pace:)
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the endless day that was thursday friday saturday ended at a techno club (overcrowded, overlit, oh so free) in Warsaw saturday night, and sleep, and on the road again we go to Stalowa Wola tonight after a pit stop at the U.S. ambassador's residence (can we say tennessee republican?). warsaw: mixture of reconstructed old town and soviet bloc....and people waiting for internet because its all at breakneck pace:)
Thursday, June 23, 2005
Smithsonian Folklife Festival- Oman:)
Monday, June 20, 2005
"To speak is to fall into tautology..."
I have just written the word ``infinite.'' I have not interpolated this adjective out of rhetorical habit; I say that it is not illogical to think that the world is infinite. Those who judge it to be limited postulate that in remote places the corridors and stairways and hexagons can conceivably come to an end -- which is absurd. Those who imagine it to be without limit forget that the possible number of books does have such a limit. I venture to suggest this solution to the ancient problem: The Library is unlimited and cyclical.-Borges
Wednesday, June 15, 2005
Location, summer 2005 (starting june 24): Janow Lubelski, Poland:)
and updated photos under Photos, at least until harvard kicks me off the server soon oh too soon soon....
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and updated photos under Photos, at least until harvard kicks me off the server soon oh too soon soon....
Thursday, June 09, 2005
A Running Tally:
nights in a row I've gone to bed at at least 4 am: 8
references to September 11th in speeches: four
references to Ralph Waldo Emerson in speeches: three ("As Ralph Waldo Emerson said, 'Hi, I'm Ralph Waldo Emerson")
references to the Summers' scandel: three
times I've been photographed: a zillion
random plastic plate meals: 7 or 8
exhaustion level: delirious
number of times I ran into people after elaborate goodbyes: 4, on average.
to quote Tim Russert :
"Politics is show business for ugly people."
to quote Brodsky and Ferris: "Bingo!"
Mahalia Mouse graduated from college! (to be published, 2007:)
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nights in a row I've gone to bed at at least 4 am: 8
references to September 11th in speeches: four
references to Ralph Waldo Emerson in speeches: three ("As Ralph Waldo Emerson said, 'Hi, I'm Ralph Waldo Emerson")
references to the Summers' scandel: three
times I've been photographed: a zillion
random plastic plate meals: 7 or 8
exhaustion level: delirious
number of times I ran into people after elaborate goodbyes: 4, on average.
to quote Tim Russert :
"Politics is show business for ugly people."
to quote Brodsky and Ferris: "Bingo!"
Mahalia Mouse graduated from college! (to be published, 2007:)
Sunday, June 05, 2005
Thats so college.
Lounging on the Winthrop terrace at 4 am, against a backdrop of chirping birds and sunrise, mumbling in French to a Canadian and Spanish to the Bulgarian (aided, at least in the French, by a g&t that was started at 3 and incidentally, the only drink of the night. but then, no breakfast or lunch) . the blockmate and roommate having departed, and also departed from mind the dozens of quotable quotes of the night. but well. in other news, humanity is like the second law of thermodynamics.
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Lounging on the Winthrop terrace at 4 am, against a backdrop of chirping birds and sunrise, mumbling in French to a Canadian and Spanish to the Bulgarian (aided, at least in the French, by a g&t that was started at 3 and incidentally, the only drink of the night. but then, no breakfast or lunch) . the blockmate and roommate having departed, and also departed from mind the dozens of quotable quotes of the night. but well. in other news, humanity is like the second law of thermodynamics.
