this 2-liter bottle of Massachusetts is empty

I’m back in California. Yep, that’s right: the paper’s finished, time’s up, the semester is over.
Whoohoo!
It’s early and I am awake, all jet-laggy and on East Coast time. The most annoying thing about jet lag is when your clock says 7am, but your stomach says, “Hey! It’s 10 am and I haven’t had breakfast yet. [...]

Wednesday tidbits

No. of cups of coffee consumed so far today: One.
Temperature outside: 18 degrees F.
Temperature in Bangkok, Thailand: 85 degrees F.
Page number on which my last paper of the semester gets mired: 15. Oh, the humanity.
No. of classes left in the semester: Two. One tonight, complete with end-of-semester Chinese food in Chinatown, and one extra-long one [...]

summing it up

I had an interesting last lit class of the semester last night. And by interesting, I mean pretentious and contentious, with moments of inappropriateness.
We were discussing Lauren Slater’s Lying and it was a bit heated. The book is frustrating, annoyingly (or cleverly, depending on your perspective) post-modern, brilliant, ethically disturbing, and arguably, well-written (although some [...]

new notebook

To take a break from writing my paper (I’m on page 14!!) I decided to go to Harvard Square and do a bit of Christmas shopping. For obvious reasons, I can’t say what I bought, but let me tell you, it’s some good stuff.
I also bought myself something. I know, shameless. But since I am [...]

just thinking out loud

I am having a hell of a time writing my final essay for my lit class. I don’t know if it’s because the topic is off in some way, and I am somehow aware that I am writing myself into a hole, or if it’s just that end-of-the-semester feeling — that I just don’t want [...]

crazy winter storm

The weather forecast for Boston on Google says: Thunderstorm snow. Thunderstorm snow?! On Boston Globe’s web site, the weather forecast says breezy, 80% chance of precipitation. Breezy!

generating proposals

It’s a bright and sunny winter day. My outdoor thermometer says 24 degrees. Eek. They are predicting “heavy snow” for tomorrow: 4-7 inches. Some reports say it’s going to come down an inch an hour. I am wondering whether my Friday class will be canceled. Whenever there’s the possibility of a snowstorm, I can’t help [...]

Better living through plastic.

It’s the kind of day that makes you keep turning up the temperature in the shower, because you just can’t get warm enough. It hasn’t been much over 30 today, and the wind is whipping across the streets, in the trees and against my windows, which rattle constantly. I finally caved in and put up [...]