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Lockdown
I use Gmail and I like Gmail, primarily because of the unlimited space and because of all the fantastic add-ons one can use to give it all the customized utility of an email client ( Read more... ) -
Miami always manages to redeem itself
Just discovered this place that serves (supposedly) very authentic Javanese cuisine including full RIJSTTAFELS!
http://www.indomaniarestaurant.com/rijsttafels.html
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The Good
Following my friend torkwit, a list of Five Good Things:
1) In two days, all the persistent ambivalence about grad school has been shattered. At Chicago, I revisited the best moments of being an undergraduate, eager exchanges that drink up hours and spit you out exhausted and elated on the other side of the night. Someone said, it's like college ( Read more... ) -
Doing things well
My biggest problem with college as a former unschooler (and in general) was feeling that I never had time to do things truly well ( Read more... ) -
Sassing John Searle over wine and cheese
Last night skipped out of work early to go see John Searle lecture at UChicago. I've been cranky ever since.
Where does Searle get off titling a lecture 'Language and Social Ontology' which has absolutely nothing to do with language? In which, within the first five minutes, he explicitly refuses to admit any considerations from formal ( Read more... ) -
a domestic moment
This is the best banana bread recipe I've tried. I think the difference is the crème fraîche. It calls for a cup of cooking oil (ew) as well but I used 1/2 melted butter and a splash of almond milk. I've been spreading crème fraîche on top too, which is a more sophisticated answer to my traditional banana bread spread, cream cheese.Mmm -
on the timeliness of books
something i've joyfully rediscovered since graduating is the experience of finding a stunning congruity between a random book, passage, or poem i'm reading and my current situation or emotional state. it's true that i didn't do enough pleasure reading in college, and that which i did was mostly non-fiction of the academic or journalistic variety ( Read more... ) -
children
here's the rare child-related product that i can recognize as cute without getting a vomit-y feeling as well ( Read more... ) -
stumbling upon poetry, gushing gratitude
cleaning in my childhood bedroom, i found a long-forgotten book called 'a year in poetry', a hokey concept anthology of poems relating to each day of the year. bored and curious, i paged through to my birth date and found something utterly marvelous. i know brodsky is renowned and i suspect the poem is quite famous, but this was my first, ( Read more... )