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November 29, 2005
I found a new store I like...
Design Public. Cute things:
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November 28, 2005
See what I'm doing here? Not writing a paper, am I?
I have to present half of my final paper in my Cervantes class tomorrow. You know what a half a paper sounds like? Not much. Myself, I usually end up writing a lot and thinking a lot as I write before I even am able to put my thesis into words. And it's been really tough for me to get into writing in Spanish again. This is (remarkably) my only class in Spanish this semester, and this paper is the first thing I've written for this class. It's been tough going. I got a lot of work done over Thanksgiving in Newport, what with the lack of internet at the inlaw's new house. Now I hope to spend some time this evening fleshing out what I can before class tomorrow. In all honesty, I am fairly sure I won't get to do my presentation, since we are running a bit behind in this class, but I want to be prepared for it, just in case.
Hey, know what song I have in my head right now? You'll never guess. It happened to come on my iPod this afternoon while I was on the bus. "Familiar Old Sugar" by Brian Marchese.
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November 26, 2005
This is why I'm posting right now instead of being more productive.
If I thought it was hard to write my first five-page paper in English this year, can you imagine how I'm feeling right now writing my first (15-20 page) paper in Spanish right now? Yeah. Pretty much.
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November 21, 2005
Shrine update
See that iPod shrine at the top? That's mine. I feel very honored. And crafty. And that's Lauren Piotrowski's painting in the background. Of course, I haven't won anything, but I think my shrine looks pretty.
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November 20, 2005
Crafty, crafty.
This was something I made for Christmas a couple of years ago. I think I might do it again...
The feminist literary critics are driving me bonkers. They like to talk like Derrida. Also, the cats. The cats are driving me bonkers. (As I was writing that last sentence, they knocked a pot of chick peas, that had been soaking in water on the stove for a couple of hours, to the kitchen floor. It was really fun to clean up.)
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November 18, 2005
Okay, so it's Friday night and I should do something fun, right?
Hey, so my paper on Don Quijote is going really well. Yep, so far I've spent the afternoon drinking coffee, sending emails, knitting, cleaning (what? yes.), and building an ipod shrine. What? When you're inspired, you're inspired. Cervantes should be so lucky. At least I have an idea for the paper that I'm excited about, as opposed to yesterday when i had an idea I didn't like at all. Then I read Cicero, and now I'm feeling like I have a plan. I'd better have a plan; I have to present this thing the Tuesday after Thanksgiving.
See? I spoiled you with that shopping post. Now I'm back to complaining about school again.
Hey- let's go see the Figments and the Ware River Club at the Elevens tonight. I think everyone in the town of Northampton will be there.
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November 15, 2005
Really what I want is my iPod to be fixed.
Hey, it's been a while since I wrote about things I wish I could buy myself, hasn't it? I'm feeling sort of cranky, frustrated, and agobiada, so I think I'll write a selfish, mindless, shopping post. Who's excited?
Even though Dave and I have a nice digital camera, I sort of want this one. I tell myself it's because it's so small, which would make it easier to take with me than our current, sort of bulky camera. I know it's really because I like the color.
Boots. Have we discussed my uncanny ability to pick the most expensive shoes on a given site and want them? Yeah. It's a highly desirable skill, especially in academia.
Yes, I'm bringing up the apron belt again. What sort of animal is that on the back? I like it.
I like this New York shirt.
I am always drawn to this Nigella knife. What would I chop with it? Who knows. Something good. Maybe something that needs to be weighed.
I wonder if the cats deserve anything as nice as this...
They're the reason Dave and I have never had a Christmas tree... okay, one of the reasons. But seriously, they would be in that thing all day. Which is why maybe we should invest instead in a reproduction of Charlie Brown's pathetic Christmas tree.
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November 14, 2005
I seriously don't want to read Lacan right now. Can you tell?
The Winterpills have started their mini-tour with Erin McKeown, which begins with a show tonight in Pittsburgh, and continues on this week to Burlington and New York. Dave and I were sufficiently lame about it, feeling sad about him leaving yesterday evening. I kept saying, "it's just like you're going to a bachelor party in New York, or something. Just probably without poker." But it was harder for some reason. I think probably because, with any luck, these kinds of trips will keep happening as the band books more concerts.
It's exciting that they're out on the road, playing shows. It's just too bad I'm so busy I can't go along sometimes. I haven't been to New York in a seriously long time, and we were originally sort of planning to spend next weekend there, in time for the shows. But, the end of the semester approaches and more band commitments have been thrown in, so I think it will be just me at home with my work next weekend, instead.
Hey, Winterpills: let's focus on getting some January and summer shows, how about that? I should be free then.
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November 11, 2005
First winter in the new apartment
I keep finding my cats sitting in odd places that I've never seen them hang out before: in the middle of the bathroom floor (rather than in the window) and on the floor by the water cooler (rather than in the window right above). I ask them: "What are you doing there?" Then I realize that they have placed themselves directly in front of the heating vent for that room. They're not as dumb as they look.
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November 09, 2005
It is scary, seeing Rosa (or worse, Clem) teetering on top of a door, right up near the ceiling, looking for something (preferably fragile) to jump on next.
As Dave said, "And you worry about our cats jumping up on top of closet doors!" I guess I shouldn't, after reading this. (Via The Morning News whose headline/link to this article is priceless.)
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November 08, 2005
There is no feasible way I'll actually get knitting done this winter, so I don't know why I bother.
I was hoping to take the opportunity to pick up some long forgotten knitting projects tomorrow morning, while my classes are taking their test. (I have discovered that I am incapable of focusing on my own work while they have tests. I don't know why.) I thought I'd start with the nearly finished mittens, or maybe even the striped socks, or possibly start a new hat for Dave, who has lost all his favorites. But when I went to look for the two books I need for the things I want to do, I found them missing. Did I lend them to anyone? Or were they (as I fear) misplaced in the move this summer?
Hey! I just noticed that on the Amazon page for the "Knitter's Handy Book of Patterns" they let you look inside the book- at the section on mittens! Okay, now we're getting somewhere. I love internet. Of course, I'd have to be looking at the web page the whole time, or write the pattern down... but it's a start...
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November 07, 2005
New Music
Hey! The Winterpills record is released nationally tomorrow. You should get it at your local record store.
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Someone remind me...
I am always saying this to people. You know why? Because I forget things. Like how today I forgot my very important paper that I was working on all weekend. Yep. I forgot it. See, this is why it's good to have wireless internet on campus.
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November 05, 2005
Modern technology
Back in the days when Eliza and I were living in New Hampshire and spending a lot of time at a little place called the Joke House, the shotgun beer opener would have come in very handy. Why? For those situations when you don't know whether to stay in and watch the Simpsons, or go out to the movies, and you say: "Kevin, shotgun this beer and tell us what we should do." It would have been that much easier to get the answer we were waiting for (after the beer had been drunk, of course): "I'm not wearing any shoes and we don't know what time the movie starts, so let's stay in."
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November 04, 2005
You can stop contemplating.
Ask the Philosophers. (Via The Morning News.)
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November 03, 2005
Hey! It's my birthday!
Sure, my iPod died and my printer ran out of ink. Sure, I have two papers to write. Sure, I have a cold and feel kind of crappy. But I still manage to be in a pretty good mood, through it all. Which is remarkable, since I usually feel sort of sad on my birthday. Why am I in a good mood, I wonder? Is it because I learned from my father's example and got the Circuit City replacement plan, so my dead iPod will turn into money to buy a new, better iPod? Is it because Eliza's making me dinner and the O.C. is back on tonight? Is it because I'm wicked excited to read all about new historicism? (Probably not that last one.) I don't know, but it's nice in any case.
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November 01, 2005
Bad Timing
So, I'm coming down with another cold. Very exciting, no? I started feeling it in my throat on Sunday night, and yesterday afternoon I knew for sure. But I've been taking vitamins and yesterday I upped the vitamin c, so I hope this cold won't last long. Unfortunately, I have a lot to do this week. I have a paper, an abstract for another paper, and a teaching project that feels like it will never get done, the way things are going. The teaching project was supposed to have been finished last week, but got extended to this week, giving me much less time to do my other work- especially if I keep attending meetings that get cancelled after I've already been waiting 20 minutes.
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