1. my alarm clock reset itself in the night and didn't wake me up at 8:00 am like it was supposed to, so I got lots of sleep.
2. Bruce is the kind of awesome person who would never yell at me for being late to an unpaid internship.
3. every one of the five lights between I-95 and the beltway on route 43 was green for me (I'm pretty sure I calculated ( Read more... )

this deserves a separate entry because today is a day to recognize our progress and our capacity to hope and endure, but I do feel a need to express my exasperation at some of the prejudices that do still exist, historic inauguration or not.  as I've been watching a recap of the election, I can't help but be angry to hear the msn reporters turn to ( Read more... )

fanTAStic two days.  how could they not be?  I spent three hours yesterday walking through the woods in the snow, watching foxes and deer slip away from the sound of my approach, and the light change from gray to white to gold, blue and pink as the sun set.  I watched the river rush and tumble in some places, and freeze so solid I could walk on it ( Read more... )

our soon-to-be commander in chief:


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could we perhaps stop for a moment so that I can point out how infuriated I am by the fact that Obama is being compared to Hitler?  I have seen so many ads and slogans saying "Hitler gave great speeches too" that it makes me literally feel sick.  whether or not anyone agrees with or even believes Obama's speeches and policies, it is absolutely ( Read more... )

the task of getting up, leaving the house, standing in line and choosing a candidate on a touch screen is utterly dwarfed by the task of turning this country around.  still, more of Americans did the former this year than any year since 1908, and that gives me an immense amount of hope.  I am starting to think that this big talk we're talking could ( Read more... )

I have:

- a fish in my room (Tacheles) and one in the common room (Zaphod)
- medium format film and a holga camera
- flowers all over the common room
- my absentee ballot
- delicious honeybush tea

life is good.

mid-semester break has turned out to be pretty restful, and it came just in the nick of time. I went to dinner with Molly, Steve and Mel ( Read more... )

I keep looking at this photo and cracking up.

when I don't have a finished paper to hand in for my Shakespeare class tonight, I'm going to say that John McCain kept me from writing it.