Starry Night
Greetings everyone! I know that it’s been quite a while since I’ve posted anything, and for that I make no excuses other than to say that it’s been a little busy lately. For those of you looking for the conclusion to my South American Odyssey, fear not. I’ve got several things waiting in the wings … Continue reading
Cleaning House
My parents have a problem with hoarding information. They aren’t very attached to clothing, property, or other forms of collecting, but they love papers. My sister says that I somehow am immune to this Williamson hoarding gene, but I think it’s just a recessive generational trait. Whenever my grandmother, Viola, would visit our house, she … Continue reading
Holy Shit…it’s really happening
Goddamnit. I just wrote like a 3 page post and then accidentally erased it. Grr. So what I was going to say was… On Thursday night, just as I was about to creep off into dream land, I had a bit of a panic attack. When I came home from Haverford, I could still measure … Continue reading
A New Wardrobe
One of my summer projects, in preparation of the career transition that is speeding into my future, has been the quest for teacher clothes. I need a professional wardrobe which does not include, as Dave likes to call them “bright tight tank tops,” a staple of my warm weather fashions. At first the task seemed … Continue reading
Commencement?
Well, I’ve been home for almost a week now, and it’s weird. I’ve been dividing my time inefficiently (as usual) between 1. unpacking 2. blowing my nose, due to sickness c/o ex-roommate and boyfriend 3. running (yes, even in the heat…it’s bathing suit season, eeps) 4. being freaked out about tfa work 5. reading 6. … Continue reading
That’s all she wrote
I finished the 6th paper about Borges I’ve written in the past 2 years, banged out my last film paper and threw it in the box at the English house at Bryn Mawr with a flourish. It crashed into the sides as it soared through the air on the second floor, clanging into the cardboard … Continue reading
Boston
So here I am, sitting in ‘the Quad’ at Cambridge, having breakfasted c/o Harvard’s dining services, and this morning while eating my waffle and coffee, I realized that I hadn’t been in a cafeteria in nearly a year. Hell yeah. Isn’t it funny to anyone else that I have to travel several hundred miles to … Continue reading
Amarga 