After the hellish grinder that is Saturday through Tuesday, I always wake up refreshed Wednesday mornings. My easiest class is at 1:30, and I can finish the readings in a quick two hours in the morning. The problem is my mind always starts going a million miles an hour with all these good, cheerful, sunny ideas. I wanna jam on my guitar, listen to ( Read more... )

Hi guys, it's time for diable's Annual Paranoiac-Critical LJ Self-Inspectathon! Seriously, this thing took three separate answer sessions to complete. Though most of you have probably left for the bright lights of blogs and streaming updates, perhaps for a few evenings still we can linger out here. I hope nothing bad happened to y'all this year, ( Read more... )

I absolutely love a capella and I feel compelled to share this with you. This performance slays me for two reasons: the first is soloist's arresting, beautiful voice. I mean just listen. The second is the way they crowd around each other and start pulsating like some weird underwater flower. I feel proud of humans for being able to come up with ( Read more... )

Yale's got folks who
don't summer in cape cod, they
don't even "summer"

It's fall here. The leaves
are falling, slanting sideways
the wind is to blame

text messages sent
in the middle of the day
buzz insistently

I've tried, but truly
life is the cruelest of jokes
nice jeans elude me

I glance at my Mac
who controls who, really?
a vague

continuing my long-running tradition of saturday night LJ surveys!

Have you ever liked someone older than you?
age-wise? yes I have. Emotionally? I'm not so sure.

What woke you up this morning?
technically my cell phone alarm, which I set to 8. Then I went back to sleep and got up at 9. So I'd say really I was woken up by that nebulous dread of being ( Read more... )

After about a week here in New Haven, my small existence is starting to acquire contour and rhythm. I have a few pieces of furniture. Some food in the fridge. I get up, for instance, and walk across the street to the Italian family-run grocery with the yellow umbrellaed tables outside and buy a large cup of coffee. I wish I could say it's as ( Read more... )

Hey folks, a public service announcement ( Read more... )

Coming up on my three week mark in Arusha--getting close to halfway done--and I've started to feel a little homesick. Which is kind of weird because I don't really have a home at the moment. I have an empty efficiency waiting for me in New Haven, that's about it. Minna is "home" to me. It's a lame thing to say, I know. But it's true, and I miss her

hey y'all

If you have any passing interest in my goings-on, I'm pleased to let you know that I'm in Arusha, Tanzania, where I'll stay for the next six weeks. Basically, I speak Kiswahili all day and wrap myself in my many cardigans, as it's pretty chilly here and I didn't bring enough warm clothes. The mist-and-mountain backdrop is pretty sweet ( Read more... )

Here is a meme in which you get a letter, and then put up five songs that start with that letter. I got P.
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