I’ve been somewhere else lately, haven’t I? The truth is a good portion of the last couple of weeks has been simply researching schools, knocking off little items on my to-do list toward school. It’s a long, slow process with a finish line I don’t even know if I’ll reach. (You know, if none of [...]
Entries from May 2009
May 25, 2009
Arg
I’m waist-deep in grad school web pages. Hundreds of creative writing MFA programs exist and yet I’m hardpressed to find a dozen programs with a nonfiction degree. Wittle that list down to ones that are good and fund their students and you have a tiny handful. That is ridiculous. My cat is tired of hearing [...]
May 20, 2009
You can’t run from the mail (and that is totally unfair)
Hot damn did the bureaucracies find me this week! I don’t know what it was exactly that made them all swarm our little mailbox, but they found us. My automatic payments to the power company haven’t been going through for three months, this meant a letter from them full of exclamation points! Because! You know! [...]
May 7, 2009
The funniest part of the week
photo by ocean yamaha
Last night, I was in the Powell’s Home and Garden store, which is a book and gift store for anyone who’s nesting hardcore. I was actually just there to look for good cards, but whatever. No really. The store is located on Hawthorne, which is a hipster haven. The kind of place [...]
May 6, 2009
The East Coast is way cooler than us
Maine has joined Vermont, Iowa, Conneticut, and Massachussetts. This morning Governor Baldaaci signed a bill in support of same-sex marriage! New Hampshire and D.C. are currently waiting on similar measures. It’s still too early to tell with the latter two. I feel like I have ask again. What is wrong with the west coast? What [...]
May 5, 2009
The artist and the psyche
Elizabeth Gilbert, who has written a few books (none of which I’ve read yet) but is best known for her memoir, Eat, Pray, Love gave a talk at TED this year. I hadn’t given Gilbert’s books a thought before watching this, but now I’m intrigued to delve into her work. I’m particularly fascinated (surprise, surprise) [...]
May 4, 2009
The tulip tree
When we moved into this apartment in 2005 there was a big tulip tree right outside our window. It bloomed all over in the spring, big white and pink petals. Year round it covered two of our living room windows and our bathroom window. A few of the branches scraped against the glass, so much [...]
May 1, 2009
Can I shop from the plus size line, please?
Forever21 just emailed me to let me know that they’ve got their own plus size line now, called Faith21. At another point in time we can talk about the weirdness of having a plus size line versus just offering the same clothes in more sizes. But whatever. Right now, what I wanted to share with [...]
May 1, 2009
Ghetto Garden: two month update
Two months after I bought seeds and planted them in little yogurt cups I am ready to admit that I have a full blown obsession with my garden. But look! Look at how big the collard greens leaves are!
And the mint is going crazy!
And the carrots have finally popped through the soil! (Along with the [...]
