In the British Library I sit across from an African King. He wears a suit and a sport jacke and a hat like a giant upside down cone on his head (upside down meaning that the wide end is up). I sit in seat 127 and we’ve never spoken.
We’ve never spoken, that is, until today. [...]
Archive for September, 2009
The African King
Posted in Uncategorized on September 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Vacation
Posted in Uncategorized on September 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
When I come back to London I’m always really jet lagged. Now, almost a week later, I’m still waking up in the middle of the night and staying awake for hours.
The effect of jet lag is no good for a weary traveler. You basically skip a nights sleep and then can’t sleep thereafter.
Because of the [...]
Academic Snobbery
Posted in Uncategorized on September 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »
When I originally did college applications my family had decided that they didn’t want me to apply to schools on the East Coast, because they were too far away, and that they didn’t want me to apply to Ivy League schools, because they were too snobby.
Yet I have to say, my perpetual education, western and [...]
Return
Posted in Uncategorized on September 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Its a difficult return to London, this time, presumably because I’m still jet lagged and sleepy.
Its hard because at home is a sense of total peace. Nothing is disruptive. This is both because I live in nature and because we’ve spent the last months eating mostly plum pies baked from the fruit in the back [...]
Civic
Posted in Uncategorized on September 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Me: I thought you weren’t driving the Civic on road trips?
My Father: I think of this car as more like a living organism. My general attitude has been when something is wrong hopefully it will heal itself. So far it has.
Revitilization
Posted in Uncategorized on September 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I know I keep promising this, but a massive weblog revitilization project is in the works. You’ll know when it happens. My goal is to integrate this (dying weblog) with my previous (dead weblog), in an edited, moderately spell checked version. It will…rock?
Catch you on the flip side.
Dissertation!
Posted in Uncategorized on September 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Done. PDF’d. Sent to the printers. Hopefully turned in this afternoon (knock on wood)!
Resistance
Posted in Uncategorized on September 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m just phenominally disinterested in writing the second half of my introduction. Damn introduction!
Get into Fall with Autum
Posted in Uncategorized on September 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
When I was in first grade the fifth grader running for school president was called Autum and that was her slogan.
Fall seems to be here. I would say that I like fall the best of all the seasons, but I worry that I just think that because its similar to summer and you end up [...]
