what I’ve been reading in school

What I’ve been reading in school:
Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand (great book!)
Anatomy of Restlessness by Bruce Chatwin (collection of essays that’s much more readable than his In Patagonia)
Imperial Eyes, by Mary Louise Pratt (interesting, radical, post-colonial, sometimes witty, sometimes a little obscure for the nonacademic reader or someone who hasn’t studied European history since 12th grade. [...]

inspiration

Sometimes it’s hard to put your finger on the source of a funk. Or perhaps there could be many sources and that in itself is kind of overwhelming and funk-inducing. So you just don’t think about it.
I haven’t been writing. At all. Well, that’s not true. This weekend, I wrote a 10-page paper on the [...]

two pages

I think I am coming around to the write-two-pages-a-day plan. One of my professors has a habit of asking students every semester what our writing “schedule” is. The first semester I was in his class I said I liked to write in the mornings, but that I didn’t write every morning, and was easily distracted. [...]

highlights

of this past week … included seeing finally, “Brokeback Mountain.” I was worried it had been overhyped, but not so. It really is that good. Heath Ledger was fantastic. I managed not to cry.
Last night I attended a Celtics game, courtesy of a nice professor with a set of tickets he couldn’t use. That was [...]

blizzard watch

Now that I am on the East Coast, I can enjoy the onset of exciting weather (of which there is little in CA). I have always loved winter storms (though I don’t really enjoy winter itself all that much) and the way that people tend to blow them out of proportion (at least they always [...]

overdosed on James Frey and Cubis 2

Yeah, yeah, I know. I haven’t posted in a while. Between not feeling so hot and an addiction to this, I haven’t been doing much writing at all. The game is a total time suck that I am helpless to resist. Luckily for me, I can only play so long, because the heartless people who [...]