February 2012
1 post
Writing
I have not felt compelled to write anything here for a long time. In many ways, I can’t help but think back to Lynda Barry’s workshop at Haverford and her discussion about how some of us are afraid to write. I often feel that way about this blog…I want to write and share, but I often find myself paralyzed. Doesn’t my writing need some kind of purpose?
But now I realize...
January 2012
1 post
Thoughts On A New Year
Be GOOD to myself.
Make moving a priority.
Cook like my life depends on it, because it does.
February 2011
5 posts
where it all started
I’m finally digging into my thesis work after getting by for most of this year with not that much effort. Part of me feels disillusioned with it; my thesis is dealing with a book and its characters and the very “real-I-need-to-find-a-job” part of me is not bending at will to its abstractions. Re-reading Omeros, though, has reminded me why I chose to write about this. It also...
January 2011
4 posts
ra ra
rough weekend?
this is good: Narnia-esque campus, building a snow duck, Kristen wavelength, long dining center meals, new friendships cementing themselves, lifting with Mary, being a good friend and holding your hair back, a rare & effortless poem.
here’s to a spankin’ new week,
n
“So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is...”
– John Keating, Dead Poet’s Society (via paulavaleria)
“everything seems more important than my annotated bibliography right now.”
December 2010
6 posts
!
I have a feeling that this will be a great winter break, the best one yet.
I am missing Poland a lot, but so incredibly happy that my grandma is here to stay with us… even if Christmas eve will be spent a bit away.
!!!!!
reflection
I hate Snow Ball. Or, I deeply dislike it. This year there is no dressing up, no expectations, no dealing with the social strata of the college party. Yes, this sounds pathetic when I write it- but last year on this night- it was like some giant culmination of everything I had been dealing with all semester decided to storm down on me.
There are still threads of familiar fears floating around,...
November 2010
9 posts
guhh, what? →
NYT Lives Column : Found on our couch
‘Bunch Muncherasi MD’
By CHRIS COLIN
I was vacuuming the bedroom one afternoon some months back when I moved a few books aside and spotted a dusty old scrap of paper. I recognized it instantly, and all at once realized my adult life had become a series of wrong turns.
I sat on the edge of the bed and read for the 500th time the words my wife scribbled nearly a decade ago: Bunch Muncherasi MD....
“jej to nawet Rebecca Minkoff nie pomoze” or in english sarcasm “even...”
– My mother, in reference to someone I know whose uh a bit spoiled (it was funny to me at the time, knowing my mom too)
love for the ford, or at least the people in it
I’m not a big fan of institutions- I went to a very competitive and cut-throat high school in NYC and that experience may have scarred me indefinitely. I also feel that you can’t really be in love with an institution- or at least I can’t.
I chose Haverford because it seemed to be the antithesis of my high school- a community-oriented, engaging college where no one talks about...
thesis.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=8962854
Maybe I’ll just listen to Walcott read his poetry when I get discouraged and all will be better.
Obsessed.
The Story:
Concept albums are...
October 2010
5 posts
ten ten ten
was a productive day. i scrambled eggs, picked apples, bought gourds, waited thirty minutes in line for an apple cider donut (questionable), had a picnic, shed some tears, talked to my grandma, drove our car (timidly) around a state park, cooked pumpkin & black bean soup and baked corn bread.
weekend vignette(s)
a pumpkin spice latte
a poorly inked theory
a recycled conversation
a juke on a field
a family singing
a family drinking
an eggs benedict
a sprint to woodside cottage
a lab report, to be written.
September 2010
2 posts
Past the Haverbubble
I feel pretty drained after I come back from the Cannery - a low securities prison for women in Philadelphia. Just for some backdrop to this post: Haverford’s Center for Peace & Global Citizenship sponsors a restorative justice class made of both inside and outside students. Both Haverford students and incarcerated women (“inside students”) meet to learn about restorative...
something to be said about transitioning
Earlier tonight, I attended a gathering for all the returning CPGC interns (Center for Peace & Global Citizenship). This Haverford College organization sponsored my internship in West Virginia and funded my internship this summer in Paris. This gathering was meant for us to talk about our summers, our transition back to Haverford and possible future initiatives for our work. It actually...
August 2010
2 posts
Back in Flavigny/ Paris endings
I have many things to update on that have happened since the beginning of July- Bastille Day, my trip to Barcelona, and my amazing week spent in Greece- but in my usual blogging fashion that will all have to wait. This is one of those entries that is perfectly timed with my desire to write…in the past those moments have not coordinated themselves with internet or computer access. I am back...
ST. JOSEPH - JULY 10, 11
The week after spending time with Maud was a mix of babysitting Quinn, having dinner with the family that’s renting me my apartment, seeing my friend Luke before his grand send-off to the USA, and then leaving for another weekend in the country- this time to see my host family and to celebrate my host sister, Eleanor’s 20th birthday. I met Eléonore at the train station Montparnasse, after nearly...
July 2010
3 posts
note to self
I really should proofread my entries- even if that reminds me way too much of school.
A shout out to my mom for proofreading up until now haha ;)
Flavigny sur ozerain
Lucky for me, I spent this the weekend of July 4th in the beautiful region of Burgundy, staying with my professor, Maud McInerney, and her daughter in a little town called Flavigny sur Ozerain. The week before was busier than usual- I had a surprising amount of work at my internship and I babysat four days out of five. I also cut my finger open by accident with a knife – feeling faint at the sight...
don't know what to say about this except hey, its... →
June 2010
9 posts
“new york city has five boroughs. five. five!!!!!!!!!!!! not one island! 5 whole...”
– me
list of happy
1. Tonight I had a delicious 9 euro Indian dinner with Caroline!
2. Slowly but surely I am getting better at telling stories in French. (it really can be the pire. (the worst))
3. Today I had one of those runs when you feel like you could go on forever and ever.
4. Sunday I ate lunch with my host family and ended up staying with them until six pm. They are truly kind and wonderful people.
5....
Kristen !
Today is June 28th, over two weeks since Kristen left Paris after spending a marvelous week with me.
I had just moved in to my new home in the 5th when Kristen flew into Paris the day after my birthday.
We immediately started profiter-ing and wandered around my favorite ways - to the Pantheon, Jardin Luxembourg and Notre Dame…then to Ile St Louis and back home again.
Gosh, how can you...
Malo Yogurt- too good to be true
Divine all natural yogurt, that tastes more like chocolate mousse due to the process by which it is made.
// C’est en fait du lait auquel on ajoute de la présure, la même chose qui transforme le lait en fromage. Mais ici, la méthode est sûrement un peu diverse, parce qu’on obtient un produit laitier avec une texture ressemblante au yaourt…
It’s...
birthdays
are indeed a funny thing. I want to say, yes Mom, I can’t believe I’m 21 years old either. I very much enjoyed wearing my wrapping paper on my head as a hat, while drinking a pint of beer… Skipping down the street, but checking to see if my key was still safely tucked in my pocket…Moving all my things across Paris, but nearly crying when I misunderstood some French at my...
Recounting Mon. May 31st : Day with M. Ducoin
My host family is a family that loves tradition. And I, for one, love their traditions almost as much as I appreciate them as human beings. One of the things that they’ve been doing for their host kids is having a surprise day near the end of their homestay- where one does ‘three things’ with Monsieur Ducoin for an afternoon. These events are not revealed until the day of the...
May 2010
12 posts
meat loaf strawberry shortcake host family friend...
These are pics my host dad took during American dinner! I scanned them and I think that the glass on the scanner is a bit dirty so the quality isn’t that great. Regardless, these pictures make me really happy.
Meat loaf, mashed sweet potatoes and string beans
The guests around dessert: Bérangère, M. Ducoin, Alex P, Jessica, Luke, Eléonore Ducoin… Mme. Ducoin was taking...
american dinner!
Great success!
Silly little old me was very stressed out for most of the day (because I care so much!) but thanks to more than a little help from my friends it was great!
Jessica had the idea of making personal strawberry shortcakes so we made that instead of apple pie. And the meat loaf came out great!
Great, great, great.
I am going to miss my host family so much !
They are lovelies.
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