from any human heart, by william boyd: my nature is essentially urban and, although Los Angeles is indubitably a city, somehow its mores aren’t. maybe it’s the weather that makes it feel forever suburban and provincial: cities need extremes of weather, so that you long for escape. i could live in Chicago, i think –… Continue reading between two coasts
one day this will end. for the time being, i am still working to synthesize my thoughts. chuck klosterman is ironically helping. good timing. “it’s an uncomfortable leap, but this question led me to consider how different (or similar) that motivation is to people’s desire to appear on jerry springer-type shos or in various reality… Continue reading reading, then thinking, part 3.
ok, this is growing beyond what i initially had in mind. in any case, this is not the promised response of part 1…instead, i have decided to add one more transcript excerpt. this time, we go back a few years (the sixteenth century) to desiderius erasmus. the abbot and the learned lady. if you have… Continue reading reading, then thinking, part 2.
there are two sides to having a librarian for a mother: on the one hand, it is pretty awesome (it’s also awesome, because my mother is an incredible person, but i’ll save that for another time)–i have the referencing universe at my fingertips. on the other hand, i have no concept of library fines. for… Continue reading reading, then thinking, part 1.
so i idealize things. i’m over it. awesome people hanging out together.
no more entj for me. well, at least according to my updated scores on the myers briggs assessment. step aside napolean bonaparte and other fieldmarshalls…it is time to embrace the estj. perhaps this is not so large a change, but i will take it. here is to a new life as a guardian. more information… Continue reading i am growing up!
…by the weather. and my second decaf americano. what is it about rainy days and coffee shops that make the overcast weather perfectly suitable? usually this is the time when the seasonal affective disorder kicks in, but currently the SAD feeling (get it?) is at bay on account of the longing for the west coast.… Continue reading feeling inspired
if one more person tells me that i remind them of their favorite gregarious-personality-big-smile-warm-laughing-articulate-and-educated black girl friend, i may flip my shit. …except i’m moving next to one of the oldest hbcu’s in the nation (howard) in a few months. holy identity crisis, batman. (more on my lifetime insecurity coming to a head soon)
where’s karen carpenter when you need her?
a nesting place 