university category archives
birthday, with utterly meaningless german horoscope
Tuesday 30 March 2010 | 3 cookies in the jar
Holiday! *** Happy birthday! Today the Sun returns to the position it was in when you were born. As would seem appropriate with this transit, today is a day of new beginnings, and the influences you feel today will affect the entire year to come. However, this does not mean that the whole year will [...]
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scraggly
Thursday 25 March 2010 | 12 cookies in the jar
pretty much describes the state of my soul right now. Also my hair. And my sweatpants, which even Pyewacket sniffs at with suspicion. But I don’t much care, because I just ptinred <—ahem printed out the 85-page thesis (to be publicly defended four days WEEKS, sorry, from today) and it looks, well, actually it looks [...]
denied!
Tuesday 23 March 2010 | 7 cookies in the jar
On the one hand, BOO on the Other Grad School for not taking me, and instead accepting THREE BOY POETS over me. (All of whom, of course, in our uncertain economic climate, accepted the offers.) May they get what they deserve, all of them, in their testosterone-soaked, beery vines & groves. Hmp. On the other [...]
gratitude list
Thursday 4 March 2010 | someone left a cookie
Someone mysterious someone actually bought me these as a gift, a surprise present, off my etsy favorites, and had them shipped to me. With no note or anything! From the hilarious DirtyAssSoaps. They came with a little chocolate heart (marked “DO NOT EAT”) and are adorable. I did not eat them. At first I tried [...]
gravespinning
Thursday 4 March 2010 | someone left a cookie
1. So yesterday I was waitlisted at the only PhD program to which I could, apparently, be arsed to apply. It was my only application largely because I feel so ongoingly guilty about trying to beg/borrow/steal/win yet more writing time—as a recovering Protestant, clearly I should quit receiving and give back more than I presently [...]
the good news & the bad news
Sunday 14 February 2010 | I like a cookie
The good news is, hey, happy Valentine’s day! And it’s sunny here! The bad news is, somehow I can still manage to feel self-pitying. Following is a brief extract from an email to beloved MFA Skool colleague Raeface, in which I bemoan my sorry white-girl lot. The good news is…I have a new MacBook Pro! [...]
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or, maybe it’s just liver season
Sunday 7 February 2010 | I like a cookie
I mean, it is liver season. And I’ve been drinking this detox tea for springtime, and maybe that’s what’s making me want to rip phone books in half (as Herself used to say of, well, herself, when around mid-sesshin she started feeling the joriki—or maybe I used to say it—I do recollect her admitting, “I [...]
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three years ago
Thursday 12 February 2009 | someone left a cookie
Eloise was still missing and it was, you know, Sylvia’s death-day, and I’d emailed a bunch of people to ask for help with the door-to-door missing-cat canvassing, and no one had written me back to say they would come help, and I had no inner resources, so of course I despondently went over to the [...]
who knew?!
Tuesday 10 February 2009 | I like a cookie
That the Duende used to look like this? Walt there on the right, for contrast.
is this thing still on? or, my marxist-feminist dialectic brings all the boys to the yard; or, 25 cosas más aléatoires
Tuesday 10 February 2009 | 11 cookies in the jar
1. None of these will be in any particular order, so you can just park that linear, sequential part of your brain for the time being. Keep calm and carry on! 2. It turns out that Valium, when cautiously abused as a muscle relaxant, is really great for back spasms. Holy BENZO is it great. [...]
