Some serious domestic mishaps today. See also: getting ready for an early meeting with a prof who wanted me to TA and inhaling toast and chugging chocolate soy milk and dropping my mug (spilling 1/3 c.) all over my reading and laptop right as I was walking out the door ( Read more... )

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The Management would like to recognize the discarding of whatever husks of retro slowbee existed and the glorious return-rebirth of slowbee nouveau. Please stay with us as we chart the uplifting story of a new start, a feel-good blockbuster record-breaker best-seller that begins, like all good stories, with movement. Or rather, a move.

The slowbee is boxing up some ( Read more... )

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I changed from my play-going-clothes (Catherine: That's a very pretty skirt. Polina: Look at her in all her red; my Ari), & stripped down to a bra and bottoms and stood looking in the mirror and then re-built - striped tights, striped leggings, leg warmers, socks, another pair of socks, jeans, sheep's fleece and suede boots, silk shirt, a long ( Read more... )

[14:29] A Collection of Miniature Collections: are these like upper-class people from the suburbs trying to write like an angsty Tom Waits ( Read more... )

I'm working on (and by "working on" I mean "started and haven't worked on since") a chapbook. It is made of descriptions of people sitting comfortably and uncomfortably. The front cover will just be tiny ink drawings of different chairs and sofas and stools and benches and seats.

MR. Bald sits down heavy. The kitchen chair. He is conscious of his ( Read more... )

Rough and bumpy things happened in our social and personal lives, recently. To celebrate our back-to-normalism and in recognition of the sheer waves of awesome we exude, we held a dinner party. The theme was French. Each of us was required to secure a recipe and ingredients (to be kept secret). Then we met up last night and spent the evening ( Read more... )

Really mundane note, but charming: last night we all felt so completely miserable that we broke into the House Office (read as: I went in with a key) to nick construction paper and spent a few hours watching Scrubs and making Halloween decorations. The hall is now adorned with orange and black paper chains, bats, pumpkins, and tissue ghosts that I ( Read more... )

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