Can I reflect on reflection? Too postmodern ( Read more... )

I graduated. Then I drank. It was great. I'll have some photos to share once family/friends email them to me, I guess. I didn't take any of my own. My dad watched it streaming over the internet and texted me to tell me he was proud and that I looked nice. I thought I looked nervous, especially as I was the only one of the six people who were ( Read more... )

I read more than I update, obviously ( Read more... )

Just finished The God of Small Things. More once I've had some sleep.

Initial can't-sleep-until-I've-said-something thoughts... I want to compare Ammu to Edna Pontillier from The Awakening but I'd feel like I was committing some kind of whitegirl treason against Ammu. Whitegirl is a lens I cannot remove and it would be stupid for me to think I ( Read more... )

...Daniel should actually read Animal Farm and 1984Maybe Orwell was a shitbag. I didn't know the guy. I know he fought in the Spanish Civil War and I know his two most famous works. I refuse to judge him negatively based on one four-page essay about shooting an elephant. I consider him to be a thoughtful man, eloquent and insightful ( Read more... )