there are some great artists over at stuart (get it, get it? stu art! hahaha!)

needless to say, i made one too.

grandmother: my dear granddaughter. i am going to give you (xx) dollars for college.
me: !!
gm: but granddaughter, you must promise me one thing! the most important thing is that you don't marry a black man!

and now, some of my grandmother's religious possessions.


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"College students this spring watched the flameout of Kaavya Viswanathan, the prepackaged Harvard prodigy who published a best seller at 19 and had been exposed as a plagiarist by 20. That's not the way things are supposed to unfold. College is supposed to be about the Best Four Years of Your Life, "the love of learning, the sequestered nooks, and ( Read more... )

i liked being nearsighted today. i took off my glasses waiting for the bus, started listening to a playlist called "feel better, Lisa." on the bus i could only see vague shapes of people; the only thing in focus was the window next to my cheek, and the raindrops on the other side ( Read more... )

here are some paths.
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with unrelated updates on my life attached.


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holy crap! i got my UofC ID -- i'm, like, official. i'm typing this from the reg ( Read more... )

on a saturday, eating waffles with nutella. emil, my long-legged roommate and the 1500m bulgarian national champion, starts stretching next to me ( Read more... )

so um, i'm wtfing all over the place because fuck, photoshop robots have about 10 times the talent i do.

i'll explain in the ext post, as i always promise.


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this woman is my hero.

notice to future bfs: if you cheat on me, this will happen to you.