I told you this was a year of death for great people.
I just found out Saul Bellow died this evening.

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oh yeah and
I'M GOING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO

So last night Ben and I went to see Endgame at the Irish Repertory Theater, which is this cool little theater on 23rd street. He went to bed really late the night before, and fell asleep from like, four pm until seven. I felt guilty waking him up, but I'd already been reading for awhile, and I ate an apple, and then eventually I thought we'd ( Read more... )

Mitch Hedberg died a few days ago. I'm really shocked, he was one of my favorite comedians- I even bought tickets to see him two weeks ago, but I didn't go because I was going to San Francisco the next morning and I didn't want to be out late ( Read more... )

I looove the opera ( Read more... )

The tiny, evergreen kumquat shrub is also indigenous to (southern) China. Apparently, the first written mention of this ancient fruit is not from China, though, but in an Iraqi writer's Book of Nagatean Agriculture, circa 904, in reference to a grafting method. Alan Davidson quotes this passage (in The Penguin Companion to Food): "It must be done ( Read more... )

I forgot to mention the Castro district, officially the gayest place in the world. I had a lot of fun walking around, the whole area has pride flags on every corner (I guess in case you wander in by accident and are surprised by two men humping one another). All the bookstores have huge gay/lesbian sections, and all guys on the street are wearing ( Read more... )

I'm back from San Francisco! Sadly. I really wish I were still there. It was so much fun ( Read more... )

I'm so tired, and I really ought to go to bed, but instead I'm insane and still awake. I saw Emily today, which was really nice, and I met her boyfriend/not named Bix. He was pretty cool. It was a little odd sometimes because Bix was constantly touching Emily and stroking her stomach, etc. And every five minutes Emily would be like "Ok fine we' ( Read more... )