While talking to my cousin earlier this week, I recalled something one of my professors told me last year ( Read more... )

April Fool’s Day, for those who “observe,” is more about planning than executing.  At least this year it was.  And I haven’t done much for April Fool’s since first grade, when everyone told each other that their shoes were untied (and some of their shoes didn’t even have shoelaces!), so this year will serve as the basis for my generalization.  In ( Read more... )

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.

Gloria Steinem

More than halfway through spring break, I had finally come to the conclusion that no amount of coaxing will make my papers write themselves. So, on a sunny and particularly motivational Thursday afternoon, I began doing research for my poli-sci paper. Having filled up 2 pages with links to interesting journal articles, it dawned on me that my lack ( Read more... )

Every time I go home I get an abridged version of my dad’s weekly antics and, in the process, am relegated to the role of an extremely-amused outside observer until I can catch up or catch on ( Read more... )

Interactions between Vanessa and me usually occur over the phone or on AIM (or in person- although that hasn’t happened in quite some time, “Ms. I will go to Uruguay for the entirety of winter break, and will then return to Cornell”). In addition, they tend to take place in the odd hours of the night - in the tired yet ambitious stages of ( Read more... )

“Because the capacity of the human mind for formulating and solving complex problems is far too small to meet the requirements for full rationality, individuals operate within the confines of bounded rationality. They construct simplified models that extract the essential features from problems without capturing all their complexity... Assuming ( Read more... )

My boss frolicked in to work this morning discussing Riverdance in order to prime us for his ultimate announcement - he’d like to be a Riverdance dancer. (Mentioning this to my dad at dinner, the response was “Kstati, ya tozhe.” They’d make a great team ( Read more... )

Fury spat out of his eyes when he told of things he hated; great glows of joy replaced this when he suddenly got happy; every muscle twitched to live and go.

On the Road
Kerouac

"If a woman seeks education it is probably because her sexual apparatus is malfunctioning."
Nietzsche