Recent Entries

• or did i just blow your mind?

  January 6, 2006

  Have I seriously not written an entry since October?I am bored. I am so bored. Not just right now, but in general. Chronically. I am even more bored knowing that being bored is entirely my fault. I'm graduating in May. This, presumably, provides me with a chance not to be so bored. But I can't&he...

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• 10/31/05

  October 30, 2005

  So I knew that sometimes people have my first name as a last name, but it was still a little weird to see this on the New York Times website:Yet flattering. I guess.Between this and my discovery that there's some German chick on Google who has the same first and last names as me (except…

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• 10/13/05

  October 12, 2005

  It has been raining for seven days. Actual non-stop water falling from the sky for one hundred and sixty eight hours. I refused to leave the house today, which was probably a bad idea (solitary confinement is sadder than rain), but after yesterday, when my feet were wet for ten hours and I feared...

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• subtlety (a poem at 12:04 a.m.)

  September 19, 2005

  Today it is my birthday.Twenty was a prettier, rounder, and smaller number than this one.But at least I can buy beer.

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• 9/17/05

  September 16, 2005

  I like to think that I am a somewhat interesting person with occasionally interesting thoughts. Like I have all this political indignation now, and I have all sorts of fascinating things to say about the mechanics of language, and you will not meet a girl who knows more about getting the black de...

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• update

  August 26, 2005

  They sent my computer back. There is nothing on it. I'm trying to be zen about it, but it's hard when I lost all my non-Prague pictures and my iTunes and the list of funny roommate quotes that goes back to freshman year and all my old school papers and videos of my grandpa and…

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• clarification

  August 18, 2005

  Okay, world. Here is the deal.BAD THINGS TO SAY TOA quiet person:"So, you're pretty quiet.""You don't talk that much, do you?""Are you always so quiet?"A person who is a month away from turning twenty-one:"Sorry, you can't be in here at all if you're underage. You would have to have an adult with...

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• 3/17/05

  August 5, 2005

  This was my favorite night in the Czech Republic.In March, after months of coat-wearing, the cold broke overnight.We went to the biggest park in Prague, the one where people kiss their girlfriends under trees on the first of May. I had a tiny, unsubstantiated crush on that boy with the camera.Pet...

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• clunk

  July 17, 2005

  It's taken a long time and been one of the most humbling processes I've ever been through, but, ladies and gentlemen, I officially have a job in New York City. It doesn't pay for crap and they made abundantly clear that my work will be tedious, but I'd like to think all that will be…

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