New York is worthy of my love after all. I wander it's streets from Fort Washington to Morningside Heights, from Fort Green to Redhook, in long, unemployed rambles, mentally mapping the smells and sounds that assail me. Shaved ice stands line Broadway for at least 100 blocks, featuring syrupy tamarind that pools in the bottom of the paper cup. The Sycamores are bigger in Boerum...
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Thanks to all of you who've stuck around despite my disappearances! I've just returned from the long awaited Danube adventure with my mother, and amazingly, both of us are still alive. I suppose we understand each other better than ever, though that's not always the key to getting along. A large component is knowing when you don't need to understand, and just dropping things. By...
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hk85:
welcome back!
saraj:
Wow, that sounds like an awesome experience!! Cool pic.
Ahh, it's been months now, hasn't it? I'm home, in The City, at last. But I miss Oregon terribly, and find things greatly changed here. It's not MY city anymore. I'm not sure what to make of it, or me, or my place in it. I need a a job, but am reluctant to return to the old waitressing gigs. More meaningful work is harder...
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crispy:
*tackle*
crispy:
Welcome back!
Hah! DONE! Well one final left, but I did turn in my 108 page thesis for binding yesterday, only 25.5 hours late. I defended a week ago, in front of my panel and a room full of friends, and it was an amazingly enjoyable experience. It was FUN! Weird. But I know the stuff so goddamn well, and my slides were lovely and I just...
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crispy:
I knew you'd kick its ass!
Nothing wrong with bragging when you can back it up.
Nothing wrong with bragging when you can back it up.
crispy:
*poke*
A shiver of rainswept wind brushed past me just as I ducked inside. Another long night of editing awaits, but I'm nearly there, at 90 pages and counting. I defend on Thursday in front of a panel of three. Wish me luck? I'm not too nervous. I do know it damn well. And then, and then...I won't know where to go from here, from being...
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hk85:
Wishing you the best of luck!!
crispy:
Good luck today!
I'll be sending you good vibes, or something.
I'll be sending you good vibes, or something.
Raaar, another blissfully sweltering sunny day. I made a resolution on the first of these distractingly perfect evenings to banish fear and master slacklining and hand-standing. I can't get very far on the slackline yet, but today I had a breakthrough in headstands. Still using the head, but even so, it's a glorious, idiosyncratic feeling! To take a study break upside down. As soon as...
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hk85:
It's been hot here too, hotter than usual. Spent my first afternoon this year at the river yesterday and ended up with some sunburn despite all the sunscreen
I think I understand a little bit about the duality of a site like this, but if it's fun and puts a smile on your face then it can't be that bad
Thanks for the tip on bike week.
I think I understand a little bit about the duality of a site like this, but if it's fun and puts a smile on your face then it can't be that bad
Thanks for the tip on bike week.
crispy:
Wait ... you have a set in review? WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME!!
I'm still surprised that it hasn't garnered more attention, at least as displayed through comments. These people are weirdos or something.
As for ideas, I got nothin'. Maybe something that ties in with your outdoor activities ... like climbing or something?
I'm still surprised that it hasn't garnered more attention, at least as displayed through comments. These people are weirdos or something.
As for ideas, I got nothin'. Maybe something that ties in with your outdoor activities ... like climbing or something?
Sweat beads between skin and jeans and I think of the benefit of vitamin D and the danger of UVB and the clamminess of my clothes and sharp blades of grass between my toes and I want to feel burnt tomorrow so my skin is hot to the touch even in a cool dark room, so my face is flushed like I'm blushing, so my...
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softnsweet:
I would like to say fuck all the sunscreen and hats but yet I still have that nagging voice yelling "skin cancer" which takes some of the fun out of the sun. 
hk85:
I love that feeling
and congrats on your talk!
and congrats on your talk!
This morning the air was balmy before the sun had even begun to bake down. It was the perfect opportunity to listen to Panda Bear's 'Person Pitch' while biking up a steep and winding hill across town into a shimmery sprawling park, which I believe una shot a set in.
At the top were a stand of oaks and horse chestnuts, the perfect trees for...
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hk85:
Good luck on your talk tomorrow!
crispy:
So ..... ?
Last Sunday I wrote to you with a dusting of late snow on the ground; Today I've just snuck back inside from the sunbaked tar roof where I was lying half-naked until the last salmony light slipped down below the buildings and trees. The streets are lined with Doug Firs and Sicamores, Green Maples, Dogwoods, Cherry and Plum, Spring flowers dripping onto sidewalks and beginning...
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argene:
Thanks They're separate fantasies-but the combination of the two would be..interesting, to say the least.
They're separate fantasies-but the combination of the two would be..interesting, to say the least.
toxic:
Hey hun before you move I'd love to meet you!
After weeks of a self-imposed seclusion, I ventured out determined to experience my weekend to the fullest. A school event provided an open bar, as well as every ex and admirer of lovely-boy. For the most part they are all exceptional women, but I I was on his turf, and resolved not to shrink into the corner as my sober self desired to do. So...
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ryker:
thanks so much darling xoxoxo
pilotin:
you're welcome...
I really don't like all those fancy ads...
you're post it's fine
I hope you'll be fine
xoxo
I really don't like all those fancy ads...
you're post it's fine
I hope you'll be fine
xoxo
I'm not sure if you've been reading my newsletter, but basically I'm doing construction work in lieu of the I.T. crap that I'm "supposed" to be doing (but the market is crap because the economy is crap). I enjoy the work, but I never really know what (if anything) I'll be doing from day-to-day, and I'm not sure what the upcoming change of season is going to mean in terms of available work.
So, yeah ... definitely glad to be working (and getting paid!), but I'd rather it was something more regular in terms of hours and more in line with where my "expertise" lies. Know what I mean?
Anyhoo ... back to you.
What are you doing ... working in an internship or apprenticeship or something?