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Let them eat pasta!
Posted in Eats, Stocks, Work, Writing, tagged pasta on March 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Shelf life.
Posted in Animals, Apartment, Boyfriend, Grad School, Writing, tagged Chris, dinner parties, drawers, Super Bowl on January 30, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I am getting far enough along in my apartment-settling process that I might be willing to post a few pictures soon. In the past two days, I’ve made huge progress in the living room. Last night I moved the bookshelves (which I acquired in my last apartment from the people moving out) that were flanking [...]
The princess and the plea.
Posted in Adoption, Blogosphere, Grad School, Writing, tagged pray for Abby, spiderman on January 29, 2009 | 2 Comments »
As probably everyone who reads this blog knows, it has been a longtime dream of mine to adopt one or more of my children. Several months ago, I began to follow a few (OK, more than a few) adoption blogs (they’re everywhere!), and I’ve learned a lot about both the pre- and post-adoption processes. One [...]
Pritchard on Updike.
Posted in Books, College, Family, Grad School, Writing, tagged Dad, Pritchard, rabbits, Updike on January 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Second semester of my senior year of college, I did an independent study with two other students and Professor Pritchard. We asked him to define the class for us–esentially, to teach us whatever he most wanted to teach us. We read Roth, Mailer, Bellow and John Updike’s Rabbit series. For class, we sat in his [...]
Better than poetry.
Posted in College, Grad School, Writing, tagged Amherst, inauguration, NYU, obama, poetry, Pritchard, teaching on January 26, 2009 | 3 Comments »
This kicks the inaugural poem’s ass (as did Rev. Lowry’s variation on it): I must say, I did not love Elizabeth Alexander’s poem. I wasn’t going to blog about it, because even though I taught poetry-writing at NYU, I really don’t know much about it, and I don’t even like to read a lot of [...]
