Being back in Manhattan has been absolutely riveting. Tonight I went to Apiary and wrote poetry and ate at the bar by myself because that particular establishment apparently needs reservations ages in advance and does not have many tables and I made friends with the manager and a bartender named Moe. The manager and I talked about the infamous ( Read more... )

Je ne chante pas ce monde ni les autres astresI went to Hawaii with Julian for two weeks plus some and it was very pretty and full of flowers and lizards and people who smiled with their eyes. We worked on a project developing fish ponds in which children can learn and play, and that work felt excellent both in accumulation of karmic points and in ( Read more... )

well we had to pull on something
so we're grabbing at the threadsthe snake escaped, in a bizarre and implausible turn of events, and is now slithering about my parent's house eating mice and small children and protecting me while i sleep ( Read more... )

new york is the oceani feel so much better now. so. much. better. tomorrow morning i am making (vegan) blueberry lemon pie and coconut snickerdoodle cookies and wrapping christmas presents and drinking spiced apple cider and playing around with my beautiful new ipod touch and i have so much more worked out now and i am also almost done with season ( Read more... )

oh, i get by with a little help from my friends


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Done with this semester. Donedonedonedonedone ( Read more... )

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I have spent the past week living out of late-night diners and accomplishing vast and impressive amounts of little. well, that is actually wildly inaccurate. i've accomplished quite a lot. but sometimes it doesn't really feel that way. the end of the semester is grandly adept at eliciting that response in an individual. miles to go before i sleep ( Read more... )

Today's question is: should I take an EMT certification course? There are two three hour classes a week, and it is eight hundred dollars, but I think that it would be valuable and interesting and it is on my list of things to do. Though--would it be valuable and interesting? Does anyone have any cogent and/or passionate advice on this ( Read more... )

i am on the mend

I had a really nice Thanksgiving back in DC and I saw a lot of people of whom I am fond and Hope said that Meet Me in St. Louis went pretty well which is grand and Lauren is cute and most of all I saw The Best Boyfriend (TM) and we saw The Nutcracker which managed to be entertaining despite the ineptitude of the Pennsylvania ( Read more... )