I’m really liking this 2012 thing. Ever since I got back to from Laramie I have been off and running into the New Year, whether self-motivated or otherwise. Here I go, talking about and trying to write about it more interestingly: 01. I am just beginning work on a new project with my boss that…
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PHAMETRICS 03
READ>> The Great Divorce > C.S. Lewis > meh LISTENING>> Who loves the sun? > The Kinks Cherry Cherry Christmas > Neil Diamond > Come on, it was the holidays! WORDS>> comeuppance COMPULSIONS>> Buying things for my apartment New Year’s resolutions, here I come! COMPUNCTIONS>> Eating yogurt. It always makes me feel bad because…
PHAMETRICS 02
READ>> Catch-22 > Joseph Heller > Brilliant Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk > David Sedaris > Always good for a laugh Life of Pi > Yann Martel > Knowing nothing about the book as I did, surprisingly spiritual LISTENING>> Go outside > Cults Do you want it all? > Two Door Cinema If you need a…
Alter-blog-ego
Regular posting again? Win! Ok, so 30 Rock is hands down my favorite comedic TV show. It has all the things that make laugh: the dark, the dry, and the absurd. Even though I could never watch it during school, I watched every single season on my computer this summer. Mmmm, so good! So it…
Stealing Buddha’s Dinner
“I read to be alone. I read so as not to be so alone.” I just finished reading Stealing Buddha’s Dinner by Bich Minh Nguyen that my friend and fellow English major gave me months ago. It’s about the cultural-conflicts a Vietnamese-born American girl faces growing up in Michigan. Basically. So much of it…
Let’s make it quick
Watched// An American in Paris/Funny Girl/Sabrina/How to Train your Dragon/He’s Just Not that into You Will watch// Away We Go (tonight with Laura!)/Megamind/Meet me in St. Louis/Art & Copy Read// The Cheese Monkeys [Chip Kidd]/Blindness [José Saramago] Reading// The Old Curiosity Shop [Charles Dickens]/The Omnivore’s Dilemma[Michael Pollan] Next// Half Broke Horses [Jeanette Walls] PLANS:…
Oh goodness, here we go
Alright, have I been the worst blogger? Yes, and I’m sorry. But graduating, packing, cleaning, and saying good-byes is a bit more time consuming than I would have imagined. Let’s see if I can play a little catch up: 02 | PASSED MY THESIS DEFENSE (and revisions!) and presented my research at UW Undergraduate Research…
Goings On
Deep breath—here we go! Reading: What is the What? By Dave Eggers. Sad book based on a true story of a Lost Boy of Sudan.While the subject material could make for an overly dramatic retelling of war, death, and displacement, Egger’s treats the subject well and it is a very good story that is approachable.…
Englishing + Designing
Where being and English major and designer collide: the book cover. Carissa showed me Alexander Budnitz‘s very neat book cover archive. I insist you go there and relish some good design and some good books. Isn’t there just something about old books that is intoxicatingly beautiful? This one is by Paul Rand! Budnitz is the…
Recently thrifted
This weekend I went down to Denver to see Carissa’s always lovely mother and to celebrate her birthday for the third weekend in a row. So much fun (and food!) . 01 | Heels from Target. {$3.74} 02 | Purple flats from a thrift store–originally from Target, you could tell because the tags were still…