archives for December 2006
felíz nuevo año
Saturday 16 December 2006 | I like a cookie
Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth…whenever it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people’s hats off—then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can. —Herman Melville
the ten thousand things
Thursday 14 December 2006 | I like a cookie
Exhibit A: The List, Redux.
email big-deal poet referrer #1
email big-deal poet referrer #2
email big-deal poet referrer #3
come up with new referrers (Friday)
mail forms to referrers in event they agree (Friday)
finish sample, stmt, supplemental info (tonight)
mail everything to Hawaii (Friday)
request transcripts (MHC, Cambs, BU)
pay bills (phone, water, gas/elec)
make cherry pie for landlords
sell wedding rings (Friday […]
read ‘the ten thousand things’
tucumcari, nm
Thursday 14 December 2006 | I like a cookie
Dreams are the subtle Dower
That make us rich an Hour -
Then fling us poor
Out of the purple Door
Into the Precinct raw
Possessed before -
One need not be a Chamber -
to be Haunted -
One need not be a House -
The Brain has Corridors - surpassing
Material Place -
The Blue Swallows
Across the millstream below the bridge
Seven blue swallows divide […]
the grad school checklist
Wednesday 13 December 2006 | I like a cookie
school
deadline
transcripts
references
application
GRE
fee
sample
stmt
other
Arizona
Jan 1
Austin
Jan 15
gen
Hawaii
Jan 1
MH
UC
BU
PG
JD
RW
online
gen
subj
$50
Houston
Jan 15
gen
subj
Las Vegas
Jan 15
subj
San Diego
Feb 1
San Marcos
Jan 15
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last unsteady steps out of stockholm
Wednesday 13 December 2006 | I like a cookie
6. Give up expecting things from other people, or your life, that they do not choose to give you. Recognize the “unenforceable rules” you have for your health or how you or other people must behave. Remind yourself that you can hope for health, love, peace and prosperity and work hard to get […]
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party-crashing menstrual faeries
Tuesday 12 December 2006 | someone left a cookie
As I dine tonight off the appropriately incarnadine cherry pie (deemed not pretty enough for landlords), I am relieved to be able to explain the last few posts by noting that the menstrual faeries saw fit to arrive a full four days early. This is dual cause for celebration; not only am I off the […]
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well…there’s *one* down, anyway
Tuesday 12 December 2006 | someone left a cookie
read ‘well…there’s *one* down, anyway’
woazers
Monday 11 December 2006 | I like a cookie
As the Brujo would say. I woke this morning completely clobbered, to my astonishment, almost as if pressed down into the mattress by a heavy unrelenting hand that can also somehow talk, mentioning to me from time to time conversationally what a genuinely terrible person I am. And it’s not because of last night, I […]
pms/phd doldrums
Sunday 10 December 2006 | 2 cookies in the jar
And as a result, have spent much of the weekend sleeping. It’s a temporary solution whose practice I’ve acquired from the Brujo, and remarkably it also often proves an extended solution as well, because after some napping all the things which seemed Insupportable are often, well, just not. And then I’ve been doctoring myself with […]
friday refrain · mes parents, encore
Friday 8 December 2006 | I like a cookie
THE SINGING-WOMAN FROM THE WOOD’S EDGE
What should I be but a prophet and a liar,
Whose mother was a leprechaun, whose father was a friar?
Teethed on a crucifix and cradled under water,
What should I be but the fiend’s god-daughter?
And who should be my playmates but the adder and the frog,
That was got beneath a furze-bush and […]
