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a woman walking alone, down a dark street.

nyc subway self portrait, originally uploaded by m. ravian.
i often leave school very late at night. i don’t have a set time that i leave, but (especially this time of year) i almost always leave after dark. i park within a two block radius of school, usually just down Purchase Street. the first block of […]

Ike and Rita.

i spent a good part of Friday worrying about all my friends in Houston. thankfully, it seems like (outside of the possibly lengthy power outages) that Houston was spared the tempest that hit Galveston.
while i living in H-town, i went down to Galveston a handful of times. it’s not really much to look at, like […]

flyover country.

flyover in Texas, originally uploaded by m. ravian.
today, i came across this BBC article:

Houston would probably not even exist without the car.The city of 2.8 million people - in the next few years it is set to overtake Chicago as America’s third largest city - is really a rosetta of suburbs and exurbs stretching between […]

and now i get to write about it.

i suppose if you stay anywhere long enough, you get used to it, maybe even like it. humans are creatures of habit. this is what i am now callling the rule of Houston. in the eight months i lived there, i stayed there just long enough for it to start growing on me, and left […]