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most important german phrase learned so far:

"ich liebe auch das Schinkensandwich."

(i too love the ham sandwich.)

in six days i will board an airplane and make my way to california. it's going to be the longest flight of my life, taking me back to my home, my childhood, and my old life. i've been gone for fourth months, it feels like forever. i don't know how much i've changed, or how much they have either. i sometimes forget how far away i am, but when i see ( Read more... )

it snowed last night, my first new england snowfall. it was so beautiful and magical, like nothing i've ever seen before. this morning i went to the library and curled up in one of the big comfy chairs overlooking andrus field with tess of the d'urbervilles and watched the little kids and college students sled down foss hill. it was such a perfect ( Read more... )

it has become the most satisfying end to every evening - the inevitable drive up the coast through the fog and trees all the way home. there is something unbelievably calming about being alone in the car late at night, in the most private of spaces. i used to think it was a pain we didn't live right in town, but now i find i wouldn't trade these ( Read more... )

so after waiting a full seventeen years and two months my father has begun the lecture series. it started with several worn copies of classics that were apparently instrumental in his youth. so now, many hundreds of pages later, i am a student in my very own philosophy tutorial. car rides have become lectures, we have moved on from the concrete ( Read more... )

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