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“Germany has declared war on Russia. Swimming in the afternoon.”
– -Franz Kafka’s diary, August 2, 1914
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Family reunion
My dad and step-mom in Senegal, November 21-28, 2009.
One of the best weeks of my semester :-)
November 2009
3 posts
unexpected homesickness triggers
Sufjan Stevens’ version of “O Come O Come Emmanuel.”
Emails from the Duke Chronicle asking the staff to sign up for Secret Jesus Christ, our version of secret santas.
Remembering that Thanksgiving exists.
October 2009
5 posts
Five bad habits
magicmolly:
Recycling old stories Masking complaints in eloquence Masking banality in eloquence Being cold Wasting time
I second this entry. Emphatically.
Dream jobs for next summer include...
M c S W E E N E Y ’ S
I N T E R N S H I P S .
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Internships for McSweeney’s and The Believer are haphazard, disorganized, and entirely unpaid. On the other hand, interns are vital to our whole operation, and they generally seem to have good experiences. And they do receive free books, not to mention our gratitude. Duties include reading submissions, finding images, checking...
I am finally inspired to write again. I just don’t know what yet.
But thank you, Dakar, you do good work.
September 2009
4 posts
Please excuse the puddle of lame that is this blog...
And all the whine-age that has been going on here lately.
NO MORE.
when does it get easier?
soon. please. i hope.
ugghhh
all my emails from all the time that has ever elapsed in the world have suddenly DISAPPEARED from my inbox and i’m not going to lie i’m pretty concerned about this. i didn’t realize how much information i keep stored in my email until right this very moment. please please come back, emails. i really miss you.
this is what has happened to me
i zoomed around europe. i drank wine in beautiful places and puzzled over strange modern art i didn’t understand and glutted myself on castles and castles and more and more castles. and then, for reasons unknowable, i jumped on a plane and went to west africa. in senegal there are goats munching grass in the road next to clothing boutiques and people are so kind about me speaking...
August 2009
31 posts
listen up
okay peoples and peoplettes, here’s the dealsville—tomorrow night i’m getting on a plane bound for bucharest with a suitcase, a boy, and more reading material than i’ll ever need for two weeks of traveling (what can i say, my worst nightmares involve waking up in a foreign city BOOKLESS). the route—though currently a bit fuzzy—is going to be something involving...
meanwhile, at my sister's 14th birthday dinner...
Me: Zoey, Andrew says happy birthday.
My brother: Zoey, Chloe [his girlfriend] says happy birthday.
My mom: Zoey, my future boyfriend that I don't have yet says happy birthday.
ways to diffuse the awkwardness of being at a...
alcohol
Quick State of the Life Update
nervous nervous nervous for Africa
excited excited excited for seeing The Boy in (less than) a week
in the meantime i’m headed to Seattle with my mother for space needles and starbucks and holy matrimony (also known as the wedding of her stepbrother).
SO IT GOES.
Things you might have missed while you were busy...
this weird music video featuring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel from 500 Days of Summer.
I don’t know how much I liked the video, but these actors are both hypnotically good looking, so I’ll take it anyway.
Good things that happened today
I discovered that avocado and lawyer are the same word in French. I’m not sure yet why this is important, but it is, it definitely is.
My Dante professor from last semester had a wedding announcement in the New York Times. In case you were wondering, “The bride and bridegroom met at Columbia, from which they both received master’s degrees in Italian and doctorates in comparative...
incomplete catalog of things found in my nearly...
The word viscous—two lines deep and underlined three times.
A list titled “things to look up” whose entire contents is “what are commonwealths?”
A list titled “Rivers” whose entire contents is “Bosphorus”
The names and phone numbers of the leading members of the Yadkin County, North Carolina republican party
Quote: “I have a rash...
I should have text message conversations with my...
Dad: Where are you and what time will you be home
Me: I am home. Cool text message skills, by the way.
Dad: cool is my middle name that is along with robert
Me: Mine is danger. Lenora Danger.
Dad: downtown danger brown
Things that I find alternately sinister and...
When you turn to the back of a novel and there is a short paragraph detailing the life and accomplishments of the writer, and then you turn the page again to find a blurb of similar length detailing the intricate history of the font used in the book.
The Woody Allen film Manhattan
P.S. The idea of soccer is on the list of Stuff White People Like.
Yes, I am THAT predictable.
God, I would almost not study abroad to take this...
Title: WORLD CUP & WORLD POLITICS
Department: HISTORY Course Number: 2009 Fall 103 Section Number: 02 Primary Instructor: Dubois, Laurent M
Synopsis of course content
This course explores the history of soccer and of its premier competition, the World Cup, in order to understand how and why it has become the most popular sport in the world. We will examine the development and spread of...
Today I discovered television’s all time low, MTV’s Paris Hilton is My New BFF.
It’s like a dating show, except the prize is being Paris Hilton’s friend.
My soul hurts.
this is what summer should be
late nights, empty parks, scones and wine, best friends, good jokes.
the end.
Things from which I derive feelings of inadequacy
spelling bees
french classes
creme brulee recipes
motorized vehicles
treadmills
the existence of natalie portman
people who can draw things intricately on grains of rice
the words tertiary and facsimile
john glenn
and buzz aldrin
The Winter Vault by Anne Michaels
rubix cubes
my pancreas
white people who speak Chinese
also black people who speak Chinese
mostly just people who are...
The Winter Vault by Anne Michaels, pg 1
The future casts its shadow on the past. In this way, first gestures contain everything; they are a kind of map. The first days of military occupation; the conception of a child; seeds and soil.
Grief is desire in its purest distillation. with the first grave—the first time a name was sown in the earth—the invention of memory.
No word forgets this origin.
July 2009
13 posts
Next stop: nostalgia