in 2.5 hours i leave to visit my family for 2.5 days. this'll be the longest amount of time i've spent with them since moving out 6 years ago. i am so anxious i feel like i'll burst into tears at any second. it's been building for days - sorry if i've maybe been intolerably insane, nick!

oh god, preserve me!

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* drop less $/save more

*write more, write more, write more

*actually involve self / try to care
- i signed up for monthly contributions to save polar bears through the wwf! as long as i'm assured a lifetime of this:

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things continue to go nicely. the arctic semester's started;
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spending a lot of time with the cat. the other day i thought nick was dead, but it turned out he was just out dancing. there's some new girl starting at work today and i am so excited. everyone else who works there is 50+ or acts like they are and i am so sharking on this fresh young blood! who knows, she'll probably turn out to be a monster ( Read more... )

after a month of procrastination and insecurity, i submitted a proposal to start a film club at the GI. i wrote this pretty lengthy (4 paragraph) e-mail to uwe and karin and, though immediately convinced they'd shoot it down (in the hallway, when asked if he had got my email, uwe told me "keine Zeit!"), they were, apparently, into the idea. the ( Read more... )

Nick and I got back yesterday from an extended weekend in Provincetown, and today's my birfday. I got sweet headphones!
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vacation is but a day away! even though i've been there a zillion times, even though it's technically an in-state trip, i'm still crazy excited to go to provincetown because, i think, overall, i wish boston would BURN LIKE DAY OF THE LOCUSTS DID. SORRY! anyways, i have to work all day today but am off tomorrow so i will have time to ( Read more... )

amidst yesterday's nOulipo madness i made it over to the bookstore and found a used copy of the kalevala! when i went back today it was gone; yet i'd done a commendable job re-shelving it on my departure. also: do i hate william carlos williams?


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i am going fucking bonkers over christian bok!

"Viking boys snap off bayonets from crystalline arsenals so as to stab each other to death, their weapons deliquescent in the blood of their wounds."

i was totally stunned!