Category Archives: everything else
Leaving
I handed in my institute ID card today. It feels a bit weird, but not in quite the way I had expected. Just walking around is a complicated endeavour now, because every time I see someone there is this sudden … Continue reading
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The Year in Review
Not bad, I guess? Laughed a lot and cried a little and mostly staved off growing waves of ennui and “stuckness”, bit by bit, and often not for very long. Not that there weren’t a lot of good moments. This … Continue reading
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Leaving On a Jet Plane
I really want to dig into it right now-the smell of fresh packaging is so awesome, isn’t it?- but I’m going to save “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” for the flight on Sunday that I’m taking to Boston to … Continue reading
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Because I have nothing better to do
“Hey, I’M prettier than HER!”, she says, and that’s…true, although it’s not the same kind of prettiness at all. Or maybe it is, and I’m rationalizing, even though I have no incentive whatsoever to rationalize. I don’t know why that … Continue reading
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Quote of the Week: And I thought it was 23, or pi.
Everything in the universe relates to the number 5, one way or another, given enough ingenuity on the part of the interpreter. – Principia Discordia, “The Law of Fives”
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Endsem update
Three exams down and 2 to go. Two were not quite up to expectations(mostly because my expectations were too high for the effort I put in), but yesterday’s was the most disappointing by far. I’ve had a mild cold and … Continue reading
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Quote of the Week: But the thing is, it’s painful either way.
“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” – Anais Nin
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Fictional Nostalgia
Interesting article (something this long and elaborate just seems to resist the adage of “post”) at the New Yorker on Salinger and Catcher in the Rye. I’ve never liked the book all that much, although it was certainly an interesting … Continue reading
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Quote of the Week: ‘the product of a male obsession with speed’
Is e=mc2 a sexed equation?…Perhaps it is. Let us make the hypothesis that it is insofar as it privileges the speed of light over other speeds that are vitally necessary to us. What seems to me to indicate the possible … Continue reading
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