From E. Edwards...

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i write this from the home of one of Liz's dearest college friends, who, by fortunate coincidence, now lives in Chicago. we decided to visit for the weekend, before the semester got too busy for me (and Liz isn't working yet, but things go well for her on the job-search front) enjoying a fine Japanese beer, (Hitachino Nest Red Rice Ale) and a tasty ( Read more... )

i have been feeling like i need to pull myself together; in an oddly literal way. like i have been experiencing a bizarrely bifurcated reality that leads me into difficulties that i needn't be suffering. i feel like there is this other ben; bizarro ben, or some kind of Jekyll/Hyde self, which gets me into trouble. trouble i don't need or want, and ( Read more... )

I got tagged by blizack, so here goes ( Read more... )

last night, after stoppping in to the Classics Grad student happy hour at Murphy's, i made the necesery appearance at my friend's rock show. he wasn't a half-bad guitarist, and the rhythm section was pretty tight too. the vocalist seemed like dead weight though ( Read more... )

i sit in the Fortress of Solitude, killing time that should rightfully be devoted to the study of Chinese in advance of my weekly Chinese quiz. my final class of the day had the unusual effect of putting me in a better mood than i had been before i went in. in the final 45 minutes though the professor's sonorous Australian voice lulled me into a ( Read more... )

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this reminds me of a very meaningful gift i once received. while living in japan, my best friends was a scottish guy (usually referred to as Paul UK, to differentiate him from blizack) right before i left japan he gave me a book called "Scar Culture" and inside the front cover he scrawled ( Read more... )

so i saw Interpol last night, and it was a pretty solid show; my main beef being that the drum/bass was so fucking loud that it made it hard to hear anything else. i had the same complaint about the Pixies show a year ago. the music isn't all about the goddamned drums. all the "fashionable" hipsters were out, and i have to say that they seem to be ( Read more... )

i just locked myself out of my office. i am awaiting my colleague's arrival to let me back in to retrieve my everything ( Read more... )

this weekend i worked my final of three straight sundays. up at 7, in bed at 2am, as i was tapped to stay in the dorms (the very same dorm i stayed in 10 years ago as a high schooler on orientation) all in all, it was the most enjoyable of the working weekends so far ( Read more... )