my first year of graduate school has done a number on me. i realized today i barely recognize the person i am now, and that i don’t like many of things i’ve done and said over the past year. the amount of interpersonal conflict i’ve experienced over the last year has made me defensive, angry […]
you remember Full House, right?
one of my greatest time wasters lately has been looking up random obscure celebrities on Wikipedia. i am amused by the fact that the entries for TV shows frequently list the birthdates of its fictional characters.
what follows are the fates of the (real life) cast members:
Bob Saget (Danny Tanner) became a […]
i have been on a major Roots bender in the last few weeks. i obtained their newest album, Rising Down, shortly after it was released. i have to say that i dig it but it’s not nearly as good as Game Theory, which came out in 2006. that is the one i have been listening […]
by now, i’m sure most people have heard of and/or read this long, rather excrutiating story in the New York Times about the perils of blogging and how one particular young woman self-destructed once she became a character in other people’s lives.
the article was annoying to me on many levels, mostly because it captured perfectly […]
about a week and a half ago (when my hair was still mostly red), Meg and i were walking back to school from lunch when a woman sitting at a stop light started yelling at me.
“Hey! where did you get that?”
i started my usual spiel, Sally’s, bleach, dye, blah blah.
she started rambling on about how […]
i was driving to school this morning. a large black pick up truck was in front of me. as i was driving past the projects it stopped. in the middle of the street - no light, no stop sign. a man got out of the driver’s side door, turned and screamed back at me.
“I LOVE […]
first, a bummer: i went back to red hair two weeks ago. i used my usual red HiColor from Sally’s. i’d forgotten how quickly it fades, it’s already a sort of weird sickly pink color. Special Effects is far better, but it unfortunately just bleeds everywhere. i am getting a hair cut on Wednesday, and […]
i have been a vegetarian for almost two months.
i vaguely remember my parents giving my sister a raft of shit when she announced her (almost obligatory) phase of vegetarianism in late high school or early college. so it is with reservations that reveal this, because both of my parents read this (hi mom and dad). […]
one thing i have realized this year is that the work that i do is overwhelmingly about loss. i seem to be teetering between this idea of the presence of the body, and the absence of it. M, a member of my committee, suggested i explore liminality, which is the theoretical space between a binary […]
as of 10 am today, my first year of graduate school is in the can. i am one third finished with my MFA.
finals are an hour long, with me present for the first 45 minutes. Then i am “invited out”, so they can talk about me while i’m not there. after a nervous 10 minutes […]