11:30am on a thursday, by this time i need a brain break. the clouds are silver lined today outside my desk window, the weather is in less dreary of a mood than yesterday. moving slowly overhead, i wonder if they’ve not slept much either. 2012.. what can i say; this year has started off so… [Read more…]
January 16, 2012
school starts tomorrow. in less than 24 hours i will be home again, doing probably the same thing i am right this second. providing myself with lullabies and mental stimulation in preparation for a semester full of rocks and money. all i really want to do is lay on a mountain somewhere, closer to the… [Read more…]
January 11, 2012
There is the me sitting in my bed worrying about every-little-thing in a future that may or may not happen the way i try to map it in my head. There is the me that is a Columbia grad student with a giant skeleton key for all the doors I think I want to open.… [Read more…]
January 8, 2012
Sitting in the grass, drinking plum juice, wearing sandals and sunglasses in January. I’m happy to be in Texas while nature has a brief affair with spring.
December 20, 2011
the new year is ‘a comin. that means a lot of things. it means ending, and beginnings, and a lot of in betweens (both literally and metaphorically). i don’t feel any specific emotions. i don’t feel pressure like i normally would, i don’t feel the anxiety of getting older or losing more time without having… [Read more…]
November 2, 2011
Perpetually having moments where I feel like this is a life I haven’t lived yet and others where I’m a completely different person. I dress for work and for play and feel like thirty different people to thirty different people all in one day. Thinking back, segments of my life are so non-linear that I… [Read more…]
October 8, 2011
It’s an early Saturday morning, which means it was an early Friday night. Driving across town the clouds look amazing- greyish blue, moving across the sky. Early mornings usually induce self reflection for me, I guess I like the feeling that everyone is still sleeping so there’s no rush to do the millions of things… [Read more…]
August 3, 2011
Lately I’ve spent a lot of time daydreaming about the many places I’d like to go right now. So that we can share some of those daydreams; the following is a rather long list: Barcelona, Spain Australia Washington state Montreal, Canada Oregon Toronto, Canada Paris, France London, England Machu Pichu, Peru Teotihuacan, Mexico Crete, Greece… [Read more…]
July 28, 2011
When I don’t have the right words someone else has better ones: Old Age Gets Up by Ted Hughes Stirs its ashes and embers, its burnt sticks An eye powdered over, half melted and solid again Ponders Ideas that collapse At the first touch of attention The light at the window, so square and so… [Read more…]
July 12, 2011
i’ve finished a book this week already, well today really. no colossal accomplishment, except that i haven’t picked up a book outside of mandatory reading for school in a little over a year. a far cry from my adolescent self, who spent countless weekends in bed with books. like all good love affairs, i suppose… [Read more…]
January 26, 2012
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